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HomeEquity Bank
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MARKEL
Jamie Schibuk
Executive Vice President, Professional Liability and Cyber
Sal Pollaro
Managing Director, Management and Professional Liability, Markel Specialty
Jim Gray
Executive Underwriting Officer, Professional Liability,
Markel Specialty
Leadership
Headquarters:
Glen Allen, VA
Year founded:
1930
Number of employees:
20,300
Phone:
1 800 446 6671
Email:
markel.com/contact-us
Website:
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/markel-corporation
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Jim Gray has more than 35 years of insurance industry experience. He is responsible for overseeing the entirety of the professional liability products and portfolio across the Markel Specialty division. He works with the product line leadership team and senior underwriters from across the organization to identify emerging risks and strategic opportunities. This includes but is not limited to developing new and proprietary product offerings, determining underwriting guidelines and managing rates and portfolio performance.
Executive Underwriting Officer, Professional Liability, Markel Specialty
Jim Gray
Sal Pollaro has more than 29 years of insurance industry experience. He joined Markel in 2009 and is responsible for Markel’s management and professional liability product line, including directors and officers, employment practices liability, errors and omissions, cyber, lawyers’ professional liability, fiduciary liability and crime coverages, which protect against a wide range of risks and exposures. Prior to joining Markel, Pollaro held various management and executive roles where he underwrote, developed and marketed a portfolio of management liability solutions.
Managing Director, Management and Professional Liability, Markel Specialty
Sal Pollaro
Anne Hardner serves as EVP, head of executive assurance for Arch Insurance, a position she’s held since 2021. She joined Arch Insurance as an AVP in large commercial and manager of the central region, was promoted to RVP of the central region, then to VP/national manager of large commercial group. She then became the SVP of large commercial group. Hardner spent 20 years at The Hartford in both casualty and management liability positions. She has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California, San Diego.
Executive Vice President,
Head of Executive Assurance
Anne Hardner
For the second year running, Shielded Insurance Brokers has claimed the number-one spot among IB’s Top Brokerages. In 2020, it was record-setting growth that drove the company’s impressive success. This year, says managing director Stuart Brady, the key ingredient behind the win is the Shielded culture. Brady is proud of the shared vision for constant improvement across all aspects of the business. “We are thrilled to take out the win again, and it’s hats off to the team for their hard work over the past year,” he says.
Eric Amadori
Managing Director, Executive Liability, Markel Specialty
Eric Amadori has over 22 years of insurance industry experience with a focus on managing financial lines products. At Markel, he leads the US Risk Management Executive Assurance team from New York City. Amadori is responsible for the risk-managed professional liability product line, including public directors and officers, financial institutions and captive agents, as well as the company’s Ullico partnership. Prior to joining Markel, Amadori held various management and executive roles in executive assurance.
Managing Director, Executive Liability,
Markel Specialty
Eric Amadori
Anne Hardner
Executive Vice President, Head of Executive Assurance
Jamie Schibuk serves as executive vice president of professional liability and cyber for Arch Insurance. In 2009, Schibuk joined Arch Insurance North America as an underwriting manager in executive assurance. Prior to joining Arch Insurance, Schibuk spent four years working for The Hartford in the financial services department within the Hartford Financial Products unit. Schibuk has a master’s degree in risk management from St. John’s University in Queens, New York, and a bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. He has also earned the chartered property casualty underwriter and registered professional liability underwriter designations.
Executive Vice President, Professional Liability and Cyber
Jamie Schibuk
Hela Trerotola
Senior Vice Presiden
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Paul Mayer
Executive
Vice President, Investment Sales
Sarah M Stewart
Associate
Vice President, Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Hela Trerotola is a senior vice president at Arch Insurance, where she oversees the growth and middle market team. She has almost 20 years of technical, management and sales experience, specializing in directors and officers, employment practices, fiduciary, fidelity, kidnap and ransom and cyber liability insurance. Trerotola joined Arch Insurance in 2009 and previously held various roles at Hartford Financial Products. She holds a BA in mathematical economics from Colgate University and an MBA from NYU
Senior Vice President
Hela Trerotola
Paul Mayer has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience at the vice president level. He is a graduate of Queen’s University and has an MBA from IESE Business School in Spain. He speaks English, French, and German, and has an understanding of Spanish.
Executive Vice President,
Investment Sales
Paul Mayer
Karen Bannister has over 20 years of marketing expertise and has a Chartered Marketer designation from the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a strategic marketing leader with a career record of success in developing and executing effective marketing strategies, growing revenue, and overseeing multi-talented teams. She also holds five certifications for marketing and brand management.
Karen has successfully completed the
Mini-MBA, Essentials of Management program at Schulich School of Business, and most recently completed the Communications and Leadership Program at The Ivey Academy.
Vice President, Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Sarah M Stewart has more than 15 years
of strategic leasing and customer care experience in residential property management. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Centurion’s national leasing platforms, residential lead generation, and overall customer experience excellence through operation
of the company’s internal customer
service department.
Associate Vice President,
Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Sarah M Stewart
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/markel-corporation
Website:
markel.com
Email:
markel.com/contact-us
Phone:
1 800 446 6671
Number of employees:
20,300
Year founded:
1930
Headquarters:
Glen Allen, VA
“It is a priority for us to continue to tap the unmet needs of our clients and grow with them to understand how to service them properly and give them what they need in this ever-changing landscape”
Vivianne Gauci,
HomeEquity Bank
Markel is a diverse financial holding company with insurance, reinsurance and investment operations around the world. It was founded in 1930 and is headquartered in Richmond, VA. Markel has 61 insurance offices in 16 countries and has over 20,300 employees.
Markel aspires to be the leading global specialty insurer. With a broad array of tools, including insurance, reinsurance, fronting and insurance-linked securities, the company can provide unique coverages to its clients across a wide variety of risks. It prides itself on offering innovative solutions, from standard and complex risks, to unique and tailored insurance programs, digital or insurtech offerings and more, as well as exceptional claims service.
For over four decades, Markel has provided reliable professional and management liability coverages. It has a wide range of insurance offerings within the professional lines space including directors and officers, errors and omissions, cyber, financial institutions, transactional risk, employment practices liability and more. The company’s talented underwriting team has the knowledge and experience to customize insurance solutions designed for the unique exposures of its clients. Markel’s time horizon is long term, its underwriting approach is disciplined, and its focus is on continuously improving the quality of the customer experience.
Sarah M Stewart
Associate Vice President,
Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Cody Woolf
Director, Health, Safety and Environment
Hela Trerotola
Senior Vice President
Jamie Schibuk
Executive Vice President,
Professional Liability and Cyber
Anne Hardner
Executive Vice President,
Head of Executive Assurance
Eric Amadori
Managing Director,
Executive Liability, Markel Specialty
Sal Pollaro
Managing Director, Management and Professional Liability, Markel Specialty
Jim Gray
Executive Underwriting Officer, Professional Liability, Markel Specialty
Leadership
Sarah M Stewart has more than 15 years of strategic leasing and customer care experience in residential property management. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Centurion’s national leasing platforms, residential lead generation, and overall customer experience excellence through operation of the company’s internal customer service department.
Associate Vice President, Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Sarah M Stewart
Karen Bannister has over 20 years of marketing expertise and has a Chartered Marketer designation from the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a strategic marketing leader with a career record of success in developing and executing effective marketing strategies, growing revenue, and overseeing multi-talented teams. She also holds five certifications for marketing and brand management.
Karen has successfully completed the Mini-MBA, Essentials of Management program at Schulich School of Business, and most recently completed the Communications and Leadership Program at The Ivey Academy.
Vice President, Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Cody Woolf joined the Fillmore team in 2011 and holds the title director of health, safety and environment. He is a Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP). He also has extensive safety experience and background in criminal justice, which provides a depth of experience for the implementation of Fillmore Construction’s health and safety program. Cody is responsible for creating a positive and safe work environment and strives to promote safety as not only a policy but a lifestyle. He has initiated and implements a range of health, safety and environmental features that have been of critical importance to the overall safety objectives, operations, and profitability of Fillmore Construction. The results of his impact are evident in the positive statistical results and policies that have been developed since he joined the company and the emphasis on safety program development.
Director, Health, Safety and Environment
Cody Woolf
Hela Trerotola is a senior vice president at Arch Insurance, where she oversees the growth and middle market team. She has almost 20 years of technical, management and sales experience, specializing in directors and officers, employment practices, fiduciary, fidelity, kidnap and ransom and cyber liability insurance. Trerotola joined Arch Insurance in 2009 and previously held various roles at Hartford Financial Products. She holds a BA in mathematical economics from Colgate University and an MBA from NYU.
Senior Vice President
Hela Trerotola
Jamie Schibuk serves as executive vice president of professional liability and cyber for Arch Insurance. In 2009, Schibuk joined Arch Insurance North America as an underwriting manager in executive assurance. Prior to joining Arch Insurance, Schibuk spent four years working for The Hartford in the financial services department within the Hartford Financial Products unit. Schibuk has a master’s degree in risk management from St. John’s University in Queens, New York, and a bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. He has also earned the chartered property casualty underwriter and registered professional liability underwriter designations.
Executive Vice President, Professional Liability and Cyber
Jamie Schibuk
Anne Hardner serves as EVP, head of executive assurance for Arch Insurance, a position she’s held since 2021. She joined Arch Insurance as an AVP in large commercial and manager of the central region, was promoted to RVP of the central region, then to VP/national manager of large commercial group. She then became the SVP of large commercial group. Hardner spent 20 years at The Hartford in both casualty and management liability positions. She has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California, San Diego.
Executive Vice President, Head of Executive Assurance
Anne Hardner
Eric Amadori has over 22 years of insurance industry experience with a focus on managing financial lines products. At Markel, he leads the US Risk Management Executive Assurance team from New York City. Amadori is responsible for the risk-managed professional liability product line, including public directors and officers, financial institutions and captive agents, as well as the company’s Ullico partnership. Prior to joining Markel, Amadori held various management and executive roles in executive assurance.
Managing Director, Executive Liability, Markel Specialty
Eric Amadori
Sal Pollaro has more than 29 years of insurance industry experience. He joined Markel in 2009 and is responsible for Markel’s management and professional liability product line, including directors and officers, employment practices liability, errors and omissions, cyber, lawyers’ professional liability, fiduciary liability and crime coverages, which protect against a wide range of risks and exposures. Prior to joining Markel, Pollaro held various management and executive roles where he underwrote, developed and marketed a portfolio of management liability solutions.
Managing Director, Management and Professional Liability, Markel Specialty
Sal Pollaro
Jim Gray has more than 35 years of insurance industry experience. He is responsible for overseeing the entirety of the professional liability products and portfolio across the Markel Specialty division. He works with the product line leadership team and senior underwriters from across the organization to identify emerging risks and strategic opportunities. This includes but is not limited to developing new and proprietary product offerings, determining underwriting guidelines and managing rates and portfolio performance.
Executive Underwriting Officer, Professional Liability,
Markel Specialty
Jim Gray
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“It is a priority for us to continue to tap the unmet needs of our clients and grow with them to understand how to service them properly and give them what they need in this ever-changing landscape"
Vivianne Gauci,
HomeEquity Bank
As an award-winning mortgage brokerage company with time-tested results, XIN Mortgage strives to be on top of the game. The company offers independent advice, develops personalised and customised solutions, and ensures that customers receive a lifetime customer service experience backed by customer reviews.
To leave no stone unturned, XIN Mortgage employs its in-house CRM X-Online, which focuses on transparent reporting and analytics system between the company and brokers to develop a healthy and pleasant competitive atmosphere.
Unlike traditional systems, XIN Mortgage’s platforms provide transparency and confidence by enabling brokers to have a complete overview of their customer portfolio at any moment, including property details, home loan details, application histories, home loan health check reminders, annual rate review tasks, leads management functions, and much more. A key breakthrough feature is to introduce new brokers to intensive and careful mentoring to work towards success, using the client service team to assist brokers and marketing teams to build their personal brands and drive high levels of customer satisfaction.
As a leading company, XIN Mortgage offers ongoing professional training and case study to its whole team, which helps the brokers develop highly effective solutions and guarantees the best interest of customers.
Sarah M Stewart
Associate Vice President, Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Cody Woolf
Director, Health, Safety and Environment
Hela Trerotola
Senior Vice President
Jamie Schibuk
Executive Vice President, Professional Liability and Cyber
Anne Hardner
Executive Vice President, Head of Executive Assurance
Eric Amadori
Managing Director, Executive Liability,
Markel Specialty
Sal Pollaro
Managing Director, Management and Professional Liability, Markel Specialty
Jim Gray
Executive Underwriting Officer, Professional Liability,
Markel Specialty
Leadership
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/markel-corporation
Website:
markel.com
Email:
markel.com/contact-us
Phone:
1 800 446 6671
Number of employees:
20,300
Year founded:
1930
Headquarters:
Glen Allen, VA
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MARKEL
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Sarah M Stewart has more than 15 years of strategic leasing and customer care experience in residential property management. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Centurion’s national leasing platforms, residential lead generation, and overall customer experience excellence through operation of the company’s internal customer service department.
Associate Vice President, Leasing and
Call Centre Operations
Sarah M Stewart
Karen Bannister has over 20 years of marketing expertise and has a Chartered Marketer designation from the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a strategic marketing leader with a career record of success in developing and executing effective marketing strategies, growing revenue, and overseeing multi-talented teams. She also holds five certifications for marketing and brand management.
Karen has successfully completed the Mini-MBA, Essentials of Management program at Schulich
School of Business, and most recently completed the Communications and Leadership Program at
The Ivey Academy.
Vice President, Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Cody Woolf joined the Fillmore team in 2011 and holds the title director of health, safety and environment. He is a Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP). He also has extensive safety experience and background in criminal justice, which provides a depth of experience for the implementation of Fillmore Construction’s health and safety program. Cody is responsible for creating a positive and safe work environment and strives to promote safety as not only a policy but a lifestyle. He has initiated and implements a range of health, safety and environmental features that have been of critical importance to the overall safety objectives, operations, and profitability of Fillmore Construction. The results of his impact are evident in the positive statistical results and policies that have been developed since he joined the company and the emphasis on safety program development.
Director, Health, Safety and Environment
Cody Woolf
Hela Trerotola is a senior vice president at Arch Insurance, where she oversees the growth and middle market team. She has almost 20 years of technical, management and sales experience, specializing in directors and officers, employment practices, fiduciary, fidelity, kidnap and ransom and cyber liability insurance. Trerotola joined Arch Insurance in 2009 and previously held various roles at Hartford Financial Products. She holds a BA in mathematical economics from Colgate University and an MBA from NYU.
Senior Vice President
Hela Trerotola
Jamie Schibuk serves as executive vice president of professional liability and cyber for Arch Insurance. In 2009, Schibuk joined Arch Insurance North America as an underwriting manager in executive assurance. Prior to joining Arch Insurance, Schibuk spent four years working for The Hartford in the financial services department within the Hartford Financial Products unit. Schibuk has a master’s degree in risk management from St. John’s University in Queens, New York, and a bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. He has also earned the chartered property casualty underwriter and registered professional liability underwriter designations.
Executive Vice President, Professional Liability and Cyber
Jamie Schibuk
Anne Hardner serves as EVP, head of executive assurance for Arch Insurance, a position she’s held since 2021. She joined Arch Insurance as an AVP in large commercial and manager of the central region, was promoted to RVP of the central region, then to VP/national manager of large commercial group. She then became the SVP of large commercial group. Hardner spent 20 years at The Hartford in both casualty and management liability positions. She has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California, San Diego.
Executive Vice President, Head of Executive Assurance
Anne Hardner
Eric Amadori has over 22 years of insurance industry experience with a focus on managing financial lines products. At Markel, he leads the US Risk Management Executive Assurance team from New York City. Amadori is responsible for the risk-managed professional liability product line, including public directors and officers, financial institutions and captive agents, as well as the company’s Ullico partnership. Prior to joining Markel, Amadori held various management and executive roles in executive assurance.
Managing Director, Executive Liability,
Markel Specialty
Eric Amadori
Sal Pollaro has more than 29 years of insurance industry experience. He joined Markel in 2009 and is responsible for Markel’s management and professional liability product line, including directors and officers, employment practices liability, errors and omissions, cyber, lawyers’ professional liability, fiduciary liability and crime coverages, which protect against a wide range of risks and exposures. Prior to joining Markel, Pollaro held various management and executive roles where he underwrote, developed and marketed a portfolio of management liability solutions.
Managing Director, Management and Professional Liability, Markel Specialty
Sal Pollaro
Jim Gray has more than 35 years of insurance industry experience. He is responsible for overseeing the entirety of the professional liability products and portfolio across the Markel Specialty division. He works with the product line leadership team and senior underwriters from across the organization to identify emerging risks and strategic opportunities. This includes but is not limited to developing new and proprietary product offerings, determining underwriting guidelines and managing rates and portfolio performance.
Executive Underwriting Officer, Professional Liability, Markel Specialty
Jim Gray
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“Our long-term vision is to reimagine our customer and partner journeys to deliver a simple, efficient and highly pleasing experience supported by empowered teams and enabled with leading digital capabilities”
Vivianne Gauci,
HomeEquity Bank
“Our long-term vision is to reimagine our customer and partner journeys to deliver a simple, efficient and highly pleasing experience supported by empowered teams and enabled with leading digital capabilities”
Vivianne Gauci,
HomeEquity Bank
“Our long-term vision is to reimagine our customer and partner journeys to deliver a simple, efficient and highly pleasing experience supported by empowered teams and enabled with leading digital capabilities”
Vivianne Gauci,
HomeEquity Bank
