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National

Boxx Insurance, headquartered in Miami, Florida, appointed Joe Gates head of distribution, central. Gates has over 20 years of experience in insurance distribution, marketing and underwriting experience from At-Bay, Beazley and AIG.

Claims Manager Ray Moylan joined the global claims and hackbusters team. Moylan has almost a decade of cyber, commercial and property claims experience at Marsh and Travelers.

Thomas Beale joins Boxx’s technology team as head of engineering and architecture. Beale has experience in security and cyber insurance from Converge Insurance, Guidewire Software and Corax.

XPT Specialty, headquartered in New Haven, Connecticut, added Phil Staver and Zach Luceno to its personal lines division.

Staver joins XPT Specialty as a senior personal lines underwriter/broker. He has over 18 years in personal lines insurance, previously serving as a personal lines underwriter/broker at Risk Placement Services Inc. and a commercial lines underwriter at Nationwide.

Luceno joins the team as a personal lines insurance broker, bringing more than six years of experience in personal lines insurance. He most recently served as an assistant vice president at AmWins.

GEICO, headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, named Arianna Orpello as its new chief marketing officer. Orpello will join the company on Jan. 5, 2026, from Goldman Sachs, where she most recently served as global chief brand officer. She has over 20 years of experience, including leadership roles at TD Bank, Capital One and ING Direct.

Howden appointed Tom O’Donnell as practice head of logistics, Howden US, which is headquartered in Depew, New York. O’Donnell is based in New York. He has over 25 years of experience, joining Howden from Aon, where he has held leadership roles since 2016, most recently as logistics practice leader – global. Previously, he was a senior director, head of contract risk – Americas at DHL and senior manager, insurance & claims risk manager at Schenker.

CFC, with U.S. headquarters in New York City, created a new U.S.-based cyber development team.

John Keebler joins the business as its new national cyber development leader, U.S., based in Chicago, Illinois.

With a career in cyber insurance spanning over 15 years, Keebler joins CFC from Coalition, where he most recently served as national director for business development.

Morgan Justice was hired as cyber development manager for the Western region, U.S. She previously served as West Coast underwriting and business development leader at Coalition. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

CFC’s cyber development manager, based in New York, Annie Lyons, will also report to Keebler.

American International Group (AIG) promoted three AIG employees to lead commercial insurance in North America starting Jan. 1, 2026.

Allison Cooper and Barbara Luck will be co-presidents of AIG’s retail commercial business in North America.

Lou Levinson is now president of wholesale for North America Commercial.

Don Bailey is retiring from his role as CEO of North America commercial insurance at year’s end. He joined AIG from Bristlecone Partners at the start of 2023 as global head of distribution and field operations.

Brokerage Brown & Brown, based in Daytona Beach, Florida, revamped its retail segment leadership team as part of its ongoing integration efforts following the acquisition of Risk Strategies.

Leaders from Risk Strategies will join the existing retail segment leadership team, taking on expanded responsibilities.

Retail senior leaders include John Mina, John Greenbaum, John Scroope and John Vaglica.

Retail vice presidents include Ed Flanagan, Steve Giannone, Neil Krauter Sr., Robert Rosenzweig and Patrick Roth.

The ACORD board of directors appointed Chris Newman to lead ACORD Solutions Group (ASG) as CEO. Newman most recently served as president international of ACORD. Newman previously led (re)insurance company operations, including setting up operations in North America, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East.

East

World Insurance Associates LLC named John Cicchelli as head of its employee benefits practice.

Cicchelli, who will work out of the Iselin, New Jersey headquarters, has been in the insurance industry for over 30 years.

He most recently worked at Gallagher as their New York/New Jersey metro growth leader. Before Gallagher, he served at Marsh & McLennan Agency.

James River Group Holdings Ltd. appointed Georgia Collier and Matt Sinosky to its excess and surplus (E&S) leadership team.

With more than two decades of experience in the E&S market, Collier rejoins James River from the Markel Group, where she served as a managing director and product line leader. She previously spent nearly 20 years at James River and will work from the company’s Richmond, Virginia, office.

Sinosky, based in Pennsylvania, joins from Arch Capital Group Ltd., where he served as vice president of wholesale distribution and led wholesale efforts across six business units. He has spent over 15 years in insurance distribution.

NFP, an Aon company, added two new benefits leaders, Mark Carroll and Bill Schmidt, and their respective books of business. Carroll and Schmidt join as vice president, Benefits, in NFP’s Atlantic region. Based in northern Virginia, Carroll and Schmidt each have three decades of experience and co-founded Small Business Insurance Solutions Inc. (SBIS).

In hiring Schmidt, NFP has acquired the business operations of SBIS.

Carroll most recently served as a managing partner of Capital Group Benefits (CGB). As he joins NFP, he is selling his ownership stake in CGB.

Highstreet Insurance Partners, headquartered in Traverse City, Michigan, named Kristen Stokes as its chief broking officer. Stokes is based out of Highstreet’s New York City office. She has over 20 years of industry experience, most recently serving as a qualified solutions group leader at Marsh McLennan.

Protecdiv, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, promoted Cate DelaCruz to executive vice president and head of analytics. DelaCruz joined Protecdiv as senior director of analytics in May 2020. She previously served as a quality assurance engineer/property insurance risk analysis domain expert at Insurity SpatialKey Solutions and as a U.S. property insurance portfolio manager at Argo Group.

The MEMIC Group, headquartered in Portland, Maine, hired Eric Stager as a safety management consultant on its loss control team, working with policyholders throughout the Northeast. Stager served as chief master sergeant and senior enlisted leader of the 439th Civil Engineer Squadron in the U.S. Air Force, and later as a compliance safety and health officer with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). He also held the role of high voltage electrical supervisor at Hanscom Air Force Base.

Midwest

Recoop Disaster Insurance, headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa, appointed Greg Bailey as CEO and Charlie Turri as chief technology officer (CTO).

Bailey previously founded and served as CEO of Rivet Co. Previously, Bailey founded and served as the CEO of Denim.

He co-founded Insure.vc and held senior leadership roles with Athene, Pacific Life and TruStage.

Turri most recently served as CTO of Lenders Cooperative. Previously, he was CTO for Denim and ITPeopleNetwork. He has also held senior IT leadership roles at Athene and AIG. At Recoop, Turri leads efforts into data and AI integration, platform scalability, and automation.

Holmes Murphy, headquartered in Waukee, Iowa, hired Jordan Anderson as vice president and employee benefits sales leader in its Sioux Falls, South Dakota, office. He most recently served as vice president of sales and account management at Avera Health Plans, and previously worked at United Healthcare and Aetna.

DOXA, headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana, appointed Kevin Wall as president. Wall has over 15 years of experience. Before joining DOXA in 2017, Wall served as director and senior financial analyst at Aon Affinity.

South Central

USG Insurance Services Inc. named Jeremy Hernandez as an underwriter in its Houston, Texas, office. Hernandez has over three years of underwriting experience at Bass Underwriters. Before entering the insurance industry, Hernandez worked at COSCO Shipping Lines and Hapag-Lloyd AG.

West

Pinnacol Assurance, headquartered in Denver, Colorado, named Dr. Gabriel Lockhart its senior medical director. Dr. Lockhart previously served as medical director of the ICU and quality improvement chairman at Saint Joseph Hospital. Lockhart is a board-certified pulmonary and critical care physician. He was recently elected president of medical staff at National Jewish Health and is a member of the faculty at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

The MJ Companies named Melinda Eckard vice president of employee benefits operations and client experience.

Eckard, based in Phoenix, Arizona, has nearly two decades of expertise in insurance, risk management, and employee benefits, having held various roles with Willis Towers Watson. The MJ Companies is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.