The way forward for this 12 months’s Insurance Business America (IBA) rising stars are so shiny, they want sun shades.
At the beginning of summer season this 12 months, the IBA workforce invited insurance coverage professionals throughout the US to appoint probably the most distinctive younger expertise they work with for the annual Rising Stars checklist. The nominees needed to be age 35 or below as of September 30 and dedicated to a profession in insurance coverage with a ardour for the trade. However, solely nominees who had not been beforehand named “rising stars” or “young guns” had been thought of to keep up a give attention to new expertise.
The IBA workforce requested the nominees about their present roles, key achievements, profession targets, and their contributions to shaping the US insurance coverage trade. The ultimate checklist of 59 rising stars was decided by an unbiased panel of trade leaders.
Among this 12 months’s winners, 29 are girls, 36 is (now!) the age of the oldest rising star, and 25 is the age of the youngest rising stars. Some of the winners had been:
- Alex Betlinski, regional vice chairman, Retail Property, Arch Insurance
- Allen Canaday, managing director, CRC One
- Andrew Filus, underwriting supervisor, industrial D&O and monetary establishments, Applied Financial Lines
- Brittany Cosgrove, regional vice chairman, government assurance, Arch Insurance
- Carrie Cheeks, southeast territory supervisor, employees’ compensation division, Jencap
- Chelsea Sirovatka, transportation underwriter, Risk Placement Services
- David Bauer, skilled strains dealer, Risk Placement Services
- Emily Wegman, senior vice chairman, industrial strains, Amwins Access
- Houston Pittman, senior vice chairman, industrial strains, Charlotte department chief, Amwins Access
- Jake Plagge, underwriter/dealer, Risk Placement Services
- Maria Alejandra Bojaca González, account supervisor and reinsurance dealer, Synapse Services
- Pete Kidd, vice chairman, insurance coverage and compliance, Leap Insurance Agency
- Sarah Combs, senior director of distribution administration, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty
- Tamra Johnson, help vice chairman, public affairs, American Property Casualty Insurance Association
- Timothy Grosso, senior vice chairman, Euclid Transactional
- Tresa Stephens, regional head of cyber, tech& media, North America, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty
This 12 months’s report was supported by the Latin American Association of Insurance Agencies and Big I. See the remainder of the winners and the panel of judges by studying the IBA Rising Stars 2022 report right here.