Headquarters:

Charlotte, NC

Year founded:

2000

Number of employees:

7,100

Phone:

704 749 2700

Email:

Lisa.Kuszmar@amwins.com

Website:

amwins.com

LinkedIn:

linkedin.com/company/amwins-group

“We put our customers at the centre of our business, responding to brokers in a proactive and timely manner and working with the customer to understand their unique risk profile and tailor appropriate solutions”

Erica Kofie, QBE

Scott Purviance

Chief Executive Officer

James Drinkwater

President

Ben Sloop

Chief Operating Officer

Leadership

Scott M. Purviance became the chief executive officer of Amwins on May 1, 2018. One of the company’s first employees, Purviance joined Amwins in July 2001 as chief financial officer and took on the additional role of chief operating officer in April 2012. He has served on Amwins’ Board of Directors since April 2015. Purviance began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1992, serving for seven years in the insurance services assurance practice. After leaving PwC in 1999, he joined the Business Insurance Division of Royal & SunAlliance USA as vice president of finance. Purviance earned a BS in Accounting from Wake Forest University.

Chief Executive Officer

Scott Purviance

James C. Drinkwater is president of Amwins and executive chair of Amwins Global Risks. He previously served as president of the company’s brokerage division from 2008 to 2021, and prior to that was chief operating officer of Amwins Brokerage. Drinkwater capitalizes on his more than 30 years of experience in E&S casualty, as well as wholesale and specialty brokering, to establish goals and priorities for Amwins’ property & casualty producers across the country. Prior to joining Amwins in 2005, Drinkwater held executive positions with both Stewart Smith Group and Willis Group. He began his career in the London marketplace.

President

James Drinkwater

Benjamin R. Sloop currently serves as the chief operating officer of Amwins. Prior to taking on the role of COO, Sloop had served as president of the company’s small business division, Amwins Access, since its inception in January 2015. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Harvard, he began his career in management consulting at Bain & Company, and then joined Parthenon Capital, a private equity fund, where he worked on the Amwins capital raise in 2005. The following year, he joined Amwins in an M&A role. He left Amwins in late 2007 to attend Stanford Business School. Sloop worked for Bills.com, a Silicon Valley start-up, until October 2011, when he joined Amwins once again.

Chief Operating Officer

Ben Sloop

Erica Kofie, QBE

“We continue to see cyber as a key opportunity and will be further developing customer-centric solutions across various geographies and segments in line with our growth aspirations”

Erica Kofie, QBE

Leadership

“We continue to see cyber as a key opportunity and will be further developing customer-centric solutions across various geographies and segments in line with our growth aspirations”

Erica Kofie, QBE

Leadership

Darrin Stafford

Chief Financial Officer

Darin K. Stafford has served as chief financial officer of Amwins since October 2016. Stafford joined the firm from Remington Outdoor Company, where he served as vice president, corporate controller, and led a 40-member finance team with broad responsibility over corporate, operational and strategic finance, investor relations, shared services, treasury, risk management and real estate. Before joining Remington, he worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers for 15 years, including a three-year rotation in London, England. Stafford is a 1994 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a bachelor’s degree in both Accounting and Finance.

Chief Financial Officer

Darrin Stafford

Kristin Downey

Chief Administrative Officer

Kristin Downey leads the team responsible for developing and implementing the people strategies to support Amwins’ business objectives. She also directs the management and operations for compensation and benefits, human resource systems and payroll, employee relations and assistance, talent management, training and development, and marketing and communications. Downey also leads the company’s philanthropic efforts, including the Amwins Foundation.

Chief Administrative Officer

Kristin Downey

In 2022, Amwins once again delivered record results, becoming the first wholesale insurance firm to surpass $2 billion in revenue, and doing so less than four years after first surpassing the $1 billion threshold. Amwins’ worldwide staff strengthened relationships with clients and customers and demonstrated why the company’s reputation as the industry leader is solidified year after year. Amwins remains the world’s largest insurance wholesaler. At the end of 2022, Amwins had almost $30 billion in premium placements, nearly 38,000 underwriting relationships and more than 30,000 retail agency relationships, including relationships with each of the top 100 retailers.

“We continue to see cyber as a key opportunity and will be further developing customer-centric solutions across various geographies and segments in line with our growth aspirations”

Erica Kofie, QBE

Donna Hargrove

General Counsel

Mark Bernacki

Chief Underwriting Officer

Dan Draper

Group Chief Underwriting Officer

Simon Williams

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

Since 2008, Donna Hargrove has served as general counsel of Amwins and is responsible for identifying and managing all legal risks for the company. She advises executive leadership and the board of directors on a range of business issues, including corporate governance, risk management and regulatory compliance. Prior to joining Amwins, Hargrove served as corporate in-house counsel for BB&T Insurance Services. Earlier in her career, she served in private practice with Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, concentrating on mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters.

General Counsel

Donna Hargrove

Mark Bernacki is the chief underwriting officer of Amwins, the first to serve in the role. Prior to that, he served as president of Amwins Special Risk Underwriters. In addition to his leadership in underwriting, Bernacki runs the Amwins Alternative Risk Transfer Team for Amwins.

Chief Underwriting Officer

Mark Bernacki

Dan Draper was appointed group chief underwriting officer in September 2022. He had previously served for more than two years as group head of underwriting at AXIS. Prior to that, he had been group chief risk and actuarial officer at VIBE. Before joining VIBE, Draper spent eight years with AXIS, holding a number of leadership roles that included group chief actuary, chief risk analytics officer, and insurance segment chief risk officer. Before that, he held managerial positions at the Financial Services Authority, XL Capital, and EY.

Group Chief Underwriting Officer

Dan Draper

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.

Partner

Kimi Shah

Partner

Kimi Shah

Partner

Kimi Shah

“Despite the challenging claims environment, QBE’s coverage and risk appetite have remained consistent. Brokers and customers know and understand our risk appetite and the cover we offer, providing them with certainty for the future,” says Erica Kofie, head of cyber proposition. “We put our customers at the centre of our business, responding to brokers in a proactive and timely manner and working with the customer to understand their unique risk profile and tailor appropriate solutions.” Kofie adds, “Through 2022, QBE successfully delivered significant growth in the cyber sector, reflecting the depth and strength of our team. We continue to see cyber as a key opportunity and will be further developing customer-centric solutions across various geographies and segments in line with our growth aspirations.”

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