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"West Oak’s success has come from always putting our clients’ best interests first and always finding ways to improve and add more value to them"
Andrew mcquiston,
west oak family office, wellington-altus private wealth
Tanya Andolsen is a 26-year veteran of environmental insurance, with years of experience at some of the most reputable organizations in the business.
She started her career at AIG Environmental in 1996 as part of their professional associate program, moved into an underwriting role, and then ultimately became the Cleveland regional manager overseeing a team of several environmental underwriters and loss control consultants. During her years at AIG,
she worked alongside many of the industry leaders that are responsible for the development of fundamental coverages and underwriting guidelines used as the building blocks in the environmental insurance market.
After nine years at AIG, she moved over to the brokerage side to become a national environmental resource for Palmer & Cay, Wachovia, and then Wells Fargo Insurance Services.
In 2015, she joined Armada Risk Partners as senior vice president and director of environmental, where she expanded her portfolio to include property and casualty team leader while continuing her focus on environmental risks.
In 2018, Tanya was presented an opportunity to play a key role in the start of a new venture to further showcase her industry expertise. As the president of Argosy Risk Specialists, a wholesale insurance brokerage, she is now able to partner with reputable retail brokers nationwide to offer guidance on how to best transfer unique or complex environmental risks.
Tanya is engaged as an adjunct team member, a consultant or an indirect advisor to help structure state-of-the-art, creative and relevant environmental insurance programs for risks in all industries.
“It’s important to me that agents and brokers value the guidance that Argosy Risk Specialists can offer as a trusted partner and resource when it comes to environmental risks,” she says. “Throughout my career, I’ve encountered too many companies that are uninsured or underinsured for potential environmental liabilities. In most cases, it’s because of inadequate counseling or direction from their current agent or broker, merely because the account team lacks the expertise or knowledge on how to even begin addressing the subject with their insureds.”
Tanya works closely with retail brokers to ensure they are asking the right questions to uncover and address environmental exposures for their clients. Since it’s not an area of coverage that most brokers encounter on a regular basis, her goal is to fill the knowledge gap as a seamless part of the account team for agents and brokers that don’t have an internal environmental specialist. In addition, Argosy and Tanya organize a basic course on environmental risk and insurance – approved for CE in Ohio – which has proved to be a valuable educational offering at brokers and agencies nationwide.
A native Clevelander, Tanya earned an MBA in international business from Baldwin Wallace University, as well as a BSBA from John Carroll University, with a dual major in logistics and marketing and a minor in communications. She is the vice president on the board for the Insurance Board of Northern Ohio and was named an Elite Woman in Insurance in 2019.
Tanya Andolsen
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Regional Head, ASEAN and Australasia; Managing Director at
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Head at AGCS Pacific
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Regional Manager Liability, Asia-Pacific at Allianz Re and AGCS, Singapore
1997
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Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Received Best Lawyer in Canada Award (Employment and Labour Law)
2020
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Human Resources Magazine | key media
Received Lexology Client Choice Award (Labour and Employment – Canada)
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Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Regional Head, ASEAN and Australasia;
Managing Director at HDI Global SE, Australia
2016
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2010
Human Resources Magazine | key media
Managing Director at HDI Global SE, Australia
2010
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Head at AGCS Pacific
2005
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Human Resources Magazine | key media
Regional Manager Liability, Asia-Pacific at Allianz Re and AGCS, Singapore
1997
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1995
human resources | key media
Underwriter, International Department/Casualty at Allianz AG, Munich
1995
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Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Regional Head, ASEAN and Australasia;
Managing Director at HDI Global SE, Australia
2016
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2010
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Managing Director at
HDI Global SE, Australia
2010
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2005
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Head at AGCS Pacific
2005
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1997
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Regional Manager Liability, Asia-Pacific
at Allianz Re and AGCS, Singapore
1997
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1995
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Underwriter, International Department/Casualty at Allianz AG, Munich
1995
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2019
2018
2020-2021
2014-2022
2020
Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Receive an excellence award
2020
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2019
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2020-2021
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Received Lexology
Client Choice Award
(Labour and Employment – Canada)
2020-2021
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2014-2022
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Received Best Lawyer in
Canada Award
(Employment and Labour Law)
2014-2022
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1300 E 9th Street, Ste 1650, Cleveland, OH 44114, USA
