Headquarters:

Irvine, CA

Year founded:

1925

Number of employees:

10,600+

Phone:

301 263 6640

Email:

aaisha.hamid@alliant.com

Website:

alliant.com

LinkedIn:

linkedin.com/company/alliant-insurance-services

“We maintain several cross-company employee networks allowing staff to connect and learn from each other, fostering our inclusive culture and celebrating the diversity within our business”

Marcella McLean, Arch Insurance International

ALLIANT INSURANCE SERVICES

Thomas W. Corbett

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Peter Carpenter

Chief Operating Officer

Aaisha Hamid

Assistant Vice President, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Manager

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Thomas Corbett serves as chairman and chief executive officer of Alliant Insurance Services. In addition, he sits on the company’s board of directors. Corbett joined Alliant in 1977 as a producer and launched its Newport Beach-based Public Entity Group. Prior to joining Alliant, Corbett was with Allendale Insurance in Los Angeles and spent three years as a loss prevention engineer at Factory Mutual Engineering Association. Corbett is a graduate of California State University, Long Beach. He is currently involved in various community and charitable organizations.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Thomas W. Corbett

In his role as chief operating officer of Alliant Insurance Services, Peter Carpenter is responsible for managing all day-to-day aspects of the company’s operations and attracting the industry’s best and highest-performing sales professionals. Carpenter has more than 25 years of experience in the insurance industry and joined Alliant in 2008 when it acquired ClearPoint, a Seattle-based employee benefits consulting firm that he co-founded and where he served as CEO. Prior to founding ClearPoint, Carpenter served as vice president of sales and marketing for a large regional insurance brokerage firm and as a group representative for Sun Life Insurance Company. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Colby College in Waterville, ME, where he majored in government and Spanish.

Chief Operating Officer

Peter Carpenter

Aaisha Hamid is a Yale-certified global diversity professional with over a decade of diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) program management experience in some of the largest and most financially successful legal and financial services firms in the nation, in academic institutions and on community boards. She currently serves as the Assistant Vice President and DE&I Manager at Alliant, where she designed and helps execute the company's six-pillar diversity strategy, is the day-to-day DE&I contact and acts as a thought leader for Alliant leadership. Her former roles as Global DE&I Plan Project Manager and Diversity & Inclusion Senior Coordinator at global law firm Hogan Lovells allowed her to be a part of a function that executes diversity efforts across 55 offices in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific. She serves as the Vice President and DE&I lead on her state United Nations Association (UNA) board of directors, is the author of two grant funded books and has traveled locally, nationally and internationally to speak about a wide range of DE&I related topics. Aaisha was recognized in 2022 as one of the Top 50 Women Leaders of Washington by Women We Admire and has received multiple leadership awards from the University of Louisville and her state UNA board. Her work has been featured in the Voice-Tribune magazine, the Courier Journal, the Weekly Urdu Post Canada, channel Y, Pakistan’s Safeer E Pakistan program on Geo TV and WLKY’s #GirlPower segment with Katie George.

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Aaisha Hamid

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Lilian Vanvieldt

Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer

Lilian Vanvieldt is a 30-plus-year insurance industry veteran and longtime community activist who uses her experience, influence, and passion to bring about positive change. As chief diversity, equity & inclusion officer (CDEIO) at Alliant Insurance Services, Vanvieldt leads a companywide effort to promote DE&I within Alliant and throughout the broader insurance industry through a focus on awareness, training, and mentoring. In addition to her role as CDEIO, she continues to shine as one of the nation’s leading brokers in the education space, leading the Alliant Kindergarten to Community College (K-14) Public Entity program. A survivor of stage III breast cancer, Vanvieldt currently serves as director of the Susan G. Komen Leadership Foundation in San Diego and was that organization’s Honorary Breast Cancer Survivor of the Year in 2018.

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Lilian Vanvieldt

Jerry Samson

Chief Technology Officer

Jerry Samson ensures the team is outfitted with the necessary technology (hardware and software) to efficiently support the program and the appointed agents with the highest level of security. His expertise in data management is critical to powering the company’s business and facilitating its growth.

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Jerry Samson

Alliant Insurance Services is one of the nation’s leading distributors of diversified insurance products and services. The company operates through a network of specialized national platforms and local offices to offer its clients a comprehensive portfolio of solutions built on innovative thinking and personalized service. With nearly $4 billion in revenue and more than $35 billion in premiums, Alliant is one of the largest and fastest-growing insurance brokerage and consulting firms in the United States. The company is undertaking a significant expansion fueled by organic growth, strategic acquisitions, and recruitment of top talent in insurance brokerage, employee benefits, underwriting and consulting. Alliant’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) mission is to nurture and sustain an inclusive culture that attracts a diverse talent pool, advances innovative problem-solving for its clients, boosts employee engagement, and allows all its people to thrive. Above everything else, the company is a women-majority insurance brokerage firm that is centered on retaining and advancing its underrepresented professionals. Alliant’s six-pillar DE&I strategy takes a multi-faceted, metrics-driven approach to promoting DE&I at every level of the organization through accountability, culture, representation, clients, brand development, and community investment.

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Paul Zahensky

Chief Information Officer

Jacqui Price

Executive Vice President, Compliance

Julie Prewitt

Senior Vice President, Marketing

Simon Williams

Chief Strategy & Distribution Officer, Arch Insurance International and Active Underwriter, Syndicate 1955

Paul Zahensky joined REInsurePro in 2023, bringing with him over 35 years of experience in the P&C insurance technology industry. He has worked for tier 1 carrier organizations in senior leadership roles, guided the development of insurance solutions for vendor organizations and assisted colleagues with carrier transformation programs. As CIO, Zahensky utilizes his expertise to develop and implement solutions that fit the company’s business model and satisfy its needs.

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Paul Zahensky

Jacqui Price has played a key role in the growth of the program, working closely with carrier partners and underwriters to build and maintain strong relationships and manage the health of the program book. Her team handles day-to-day approvals as well as company-wide compliance initiatives, carrier reporting, internal team training and ongoing policy management.

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Jacqui Price

Julie Prewitt has worked on nearly every aspect of marketing and advertising in her nearly 20 years in the industry. Her team at REInsurePro manages branding, advertising, events, content, digital campaigns, and agent engagement and plays a key role in product development.

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Julie Prewitt

Kimi leads the Estate Planning and Wealth Protection team and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She understands the complex and delicate nature of family estate planning, the technical requirements around probate and estate administration, and the importance of preserving wealth for future generations. Her advice is accurate, commercial, strategic and tailored to each situation.

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Dave Longbottom

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Alex Ventura

Head of Marketing

Damian Palovick

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Dr. Mary Lavoie

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Mark Bernacki

Chief Underwriting Officer

Ryan Armijo

Chief Operating Officer, Underwriting Division

Bob Petrilli

President, Underwriting Division

Arch provides underwriting solutions across a diverse and growing portfolio of more than 20 business classes, spanning multiple platforms in the London company market, the Lloyd’s market, the UK regional market as well as markets in Australia, Bermuda, and the EU. Through their Lloyd’s and London company market platforms, Arch provides customised solutions and high levels of capacity across multiple (re)insurance classes. Arch’s UK Regional division, launched in 2018, offers specialised insurance solutions for a wide range of businesses, from 11 locations across the country. The past few years have been transformational for Arch Insurance International. Since 2019 the company has more than trebled in size in terms of GWP, and this growth has been seen across all territorial platforms. In 2021 Arch launched its new brand promise, Pursuing Better Together, encapsulating an approach to doing business based on collaboration, responsiveness, and a genuine commitment to continually raising the bar. Arch has a clearly defined three-year plan that is underpinned by more than 100 objectives.

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“We will continue to strengthen our service proposition and customer experience as a key differentiator, as we build on the momentum we have achieved to date across multiple business lines and territories,” says McLean. “Our im is to continue to grow our market relevance and strengthen our partnerships with our strategic brokers as we expand our leadership position in key sectors. “We will also continue to invest in talent. We are committed to drawing from the broadest pools of talent, and to creating an environment that attracts and retains stellar employees. We recognise the importance of building teams that are diverse, collaborative, and innovative and are dedicated to cultivating a supportive and inclusive workplace culture in which all our employees can thrive.”