Several insurance organizations have announced leadership changes, spanning underwriting, technology and brokerage operations.
CopperPoint Insurance Companies has named Thomas Beale (pictured above, left) as SVP and chief information officer. He will report to president and CEO-elect Kellen Booher.
The appointment comes as CopperPoint advances a technology transformation initiative. Beale will oversee the next phase of that effort, with a focus on supporting long-term growth, operational expansion and customer experience.
Beale brings more than 20 years of experience spanning cybersecurity, software engineering, analytics and enterprise architecture. He started his career as a cybersecurity tester and moved into senior consulting and project leadership roles focused on information security.
He co-founded Vigilante Bespoke, a cybersecurity firm, in 2008 and later co-founded Corax, a cyber risk intelligence platform. Before joining CopperPoint, Beale served as head of engineering and architecture at BOXX Insurance, where he worked on insurance automation processes and developed a platform for analytics and AI.
He also held the role of CTO at Converge and senior director of architecture at Guidewire Software.
Green Tree Risk Partners, a brokerage focused on the lumber and building materials industry, has appointed Laura Page (pictured above, right) as director, effective March 1, 2026. Page succeeds Angelo Ganguzza, who is retiring from the full-time agency leadership role after 40 years in the wood and building materials insurance sector.
Ganguzza will transition to a strategic position within brokerage operations. Under his tenure, Green Tree recorded more than $18 million in written premium in 2025.
The leadership change is part of a succession plan aimed at continuing the brokerage's growth trajectory. Page brings 20 years of insurance and leadership experience to the role.
She previously served as vice president at Extraco Insurance Agency, where she led training programs and onboarding process updates.
At Green Tree, Page will focus on developing the agency model and maintaining a competitive marketplace for insureds, producers and partners in the lumber and building materials industry.
Ryan Specialty Underwriting Managers (RSUM), the underwriting management division of Ryan Specialty, has announced three executive promotions within its Ryan Financial Lines unit.
RFL operates as a single platform offering a range of financial lines products to clients and capital providers, and the promotions follow a separate round of leadership changes announced in January.
Deborah Egel-Fergus has been promoted to president of lawyers E&O. She most recently served as vice president for LawyerGuard, which has since joined RFL, and has more than 25 years of experience in the professional liability space. Egel-Fergus replaces Kevin Sullivan, who retired at the end of 2025.
Brooke Tanner has been named chief claims officer for RFL North America, Global Cyber and Celerity Risk. Tanner joined what was then EmergIn Risk in 2022 and previously practiced insurance law as a general liability litigator, coverage counsel and data privacy and breach response counsel at law firms in New York City. She has been a member of the New York State Bar since 2009.
Amelia Gould has been promoted to chief operating officer, international. Gould previously served as head of operations at Themis Underwriting, which Ryan Specialty acquired through the Innovisk transaction, where she spent six years before joining RFL in October 2025. She began her career at a global specialty carrier, where she held underwriting assistant and operations analyst roles over a five-year period.
