Several insurance and risk management firms have announced key appointments across underwriting, brokerage, claims, and risk management functions.
CRC Group has appointed Kevin Butte (pictured above, left), David Claiborne (pictured above, center), and Vincent Urbanczyk (pictured above, right) to its wholesale specialty insurance distribution team, expanding capabilities in energy, excess casualty, transportation, and healthcare professional liability.
Butte joins as a senior broker in Atlanta, Georgia, bringing experience in healthcare professional liability and medical malpractice placements for hospitals, physicians, allied medical facilities, and senior care organizations. His background includes financial analysis and valuation work.
Claiborne has been named a broker on the Dallas, Texas, team, where he will focus on placing energy, oilfield services, transportation, and excess casualty risks. He brings senior-level brokerage experience in complex casualty structures.
Urbanczyk also joins the Dallas team as a casualty broker with nearly a decade of experience placing complex casualty risks focused on energy and construction exposures. He has held progressive brokerage leadership roles and has a background in structuring layered and excess casualty programs.
She brings more than three decades of underwriting experience across the London and international casualty markets. Her previous roles include positions at Apollo Syndicate 1969, Argo Group International Holdings, Liberty International Underwriters, and Zurich Insurance Company Ltd. At Rokstone, Lill will work with the firm's North American casualty leadership to expand underwriting capabilities.
Plasnomic has announced that Derrell Burgin (pictured immediately above), senior director of physical damage claims at GEICO, has joined its Plastic Repair Alliance Council. Burgin brings more than 35 years of experience in physical damage, beginning his career as a collision repair technician before advancing to shop estimator and moving into executive leadership.
He has served in GEICO's physical damage department for more than 27 years. During his tenure, he has been involved in developing the foundations of GEICO's catastrophe management response strategies.
Markel Insurance has appointed John Riley (pictured immediately above) as senior claims adjuster for financial institutions. Based in London, Riley will report to Natalie Myhill, claims manager for financial institutions and fintech, within the professional and financial risks claims team led by Jonathan Pestell.
Riley brings more than 25 years of experience handling financial institutions and directors and officers (D&O) claims in the London market, spanning cross-border matters across the UK, US, South America, Europe, and Israel. He previously served as senior adjuster at Starr Underwriting Agents and held a role at Aon UK as a referral point for financial lines claims.
Pretium, a specialized investment firm managing over $60 billion in assets, has appointed Joel Sulkes as managing director, insurance risk management.
In the role, Sulkes will lead the build-out of the firm's insurance risk management function, including centralizing insurance capabilities, expanding the use of insurance risk transfer vehicles, and growing its insurance brokerage platform.
Sulkes brings more than two decades of experience in risk management at insurance and financial institutions. He most recently served as a senior managing director at Brown & Brown and previously led the global financial institutions practice at Aon.
Earlier in his career, he spent more than a decade at Goldman Sachs, where he helped establish the firm's corporate insurance practice and operational risk supervision function. He also held a vice president role at Lehman Brothers and began his career as an attorney in the insurance practice group at Dewey & LeBoeuf.
Newline Group has appointed Christopher Moy as head of professional indemnity. Moy has over a decade of underwriting experience and joined Newline in 2022.
He has taken on increasing levels of responsibility within the company's professional indemnity business over the past few years.
