Headquarters:

2850 Golf Road, Rolling Meadows, IL 60008

Year founded:

1997

Number of employees:

3,000

Phone:

866 595 8413

Email:

ContactRPS@rpsins.com

Website:

rpsins.com

LinkedIn:

linkedin.com/company/risk-placement-services-inc

RISK PLACEMENT SERVICES

Kevin Doyle

Chief Executive Officer

Adam Mazan

President

Christy Hogan Hutchinson

Vice President, Marketing

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Kevin Doyle brings 15+ years of strategic planning, consistent delivery of business results, and employee engagement to his role as chief executive of RPS. He joined RPS in 2018 as VP of the Western Region and Chicago. In 2021, he took over responsibility for the Chicago team, resulting in strong organic growth and successful execution of dominant priorities. Doyle has deep expertise across a broad range of specialty businesses in the E&S sector, alternative risk, and programs space. He has championed several sales initiatives to drive growth and efficiencies through digital and data strategies, early talent development, and proprietary products.

Chief Executive Officer

Kevin Doyle

Adam Mazan serves as president of Risk Placement Services (RPS) with responsibility over the strategic direction of the revenue-generating operations of the firm across its binding, brokerage, and program administration divisions. Prior to this role, he served as vice president for RPS’s Pacific-West Region, where he was responsible for leading and growing the company’s brokerage and binding business in California and Hawaii. Under his leadership, the region achieved significant growth, recruited and developed top performers, and increased client engagement. Mazan joined RPS as a summer college intern and was hired as a full-time broker following his graduation from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Adam Mazan

Christy Hutchinson serves as vice president, marketing, at Risk Placement Services, where she is responsible for advancing business priorities through strategic and creative marketing programs that position the brand in the marketplace, drive client engagement, and generate demand for RPS products and services. Her extensive leadership experience includes roles at prominent marketing firms, where she worked across a range of industries including healthcare, pharmaceuticals and Fortune 500 insurance companies. She is a graduate of Michigan State University.

Vice President, Marketing

Christy Hogan Hutchinson

“Our clients want specialized expertise. RPS’s team culture and forward-thinking, data-driven approach help us deliver on that and be the true partner our clients need across brokerage, underwriting, and small business.”

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“Risk Placement Services is a client-centric organization focused on helping our clients win by delivering tailored solutions to their insureds.”

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Lauren Melzer

Vice President, Market Relations

Lauren Melzer serves as vice president of market relations for RPS, where she is the primary liaison to all market partners domestically and internationally. In this role, she works with carriers to strategically grow relationships and ensure RPS has access to top markets to come through for its clients. Melzer earned her BS in insurance from Illinois State University.

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Peter Burrous

Chief Marketing Officer

Peter Burrous, chief marketing officer at Johnson & Johnson, has been with the company for 19 years. After graduating from the University of Virginia in 1981, he spent 20 years in various sales and marketing positions at The Coca-Cola Company. He joined J&J in 2003 to build an industry-leading sales and marketing team. He and his team are responsible for agency partnerships and the overall sales and marketing plan.   Peter is a member of the Trident United Way Tocqueville Society. He lives in Mt Pleasant, SC with his wife, Catherine. They have four children – Peter, Bradford, Leslie, and Web – and now have their first grandson, with a second grandson on the way. Peter is an avid pilot and enjoys traveling, boating, and skiing in his off time.  

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Peter Burrous

Risk Placement Services (RPS) is an MGA and a nationally focused wholesale insurance broker, headquartered in Rolling Meadows, IL, with offices across the United States. The firm’s success is fueled by a culture of creativity, collaboration, and innovation, which includes a focus on ensuring its teams are empowered to find the right solutions for unique and complex risks. By using a data-driven approach, RPS leverages coverage line expertise across its divisions, including brokerage, binding/MGA, programs, and wholesale benefits. Due to its size and scale, RPS manages more accounts and works with a greater range of risks than any independent agent possibly could. This extensive knowledge is shared to empower all their retail agent clients.

“Risk Placement Services is a client-centric organization focused on helping our clients win by delivering tailored solutions to their insureds.”

Adam Mazan, Risk Placement Services

Steven E. Craig

Chief Financial Officer

Mark Bernacki

Chief Underwriting Officer

Julie Prewitt

Senior Vice President, Marketing

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

Steven E. Craig is the chief financial officer at Johnson & Johnson. He graduated from Clemson University (BS Finance) in 1988, the University of South Carolina School of Law (JD) in 1993, and New York University School of Law (LLM, Taxation) in 1995. After practicing tax law for 15 years, he joined J&J as CFO in 2010. He lives in Charleston with his wife, Molly. They have three children: Steven, Macy, and Michael. He enjoys playing golf, traveling, hunting, boating, and generally being outdoors. 

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Steven E. Craig

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.

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Mark Bernacki

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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Kimi Shah

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Kimi Shah

maintaining an in-house team of more than 20 programmers to facilitate fast improvements direct bill options to streamline the payment process for the agent and the insured providing IVANS policy downloads that enable up to 30 percent labor savings to independent agencies delivering online capabilities including rating, policy documents, payments, and claims reporting

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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.”

RPS has implemented two recent important strategies that have enabled it to continue delivering. The first is its data strategy, fueled by the growing importance of using analytics to provide actionable insights. “We believe using data in the moments that matter provides our retail agents and brokers with a competitive edge,” explains Doyle. “As the E&S world changes daily, we believe we must continue to arm our biggest asset, our team, with industry-leading resources and data to ensure RPS is a solutions-oriented organization.” The second strategy is to focus on their talent. RPS has seen significant growth in the diversity and experience of their teams. President Adam Mazan says, “We know the importance of recruiting, retaining and developing the best talent in the industry, who fit within our culture of creativity and collaboration.”

relationships and teamwork embracing and driving change holding teammates accountable pursuing excellence with humility giving back to the community

RPS considers itself a partner to independent agents, equipped with the appropriate expertise and access to products. Clients can expect responsiveness and a direct line to a wealth of knowledge. Understanding the agents it serves is vital to RPS. To maintain a connection and awareness of how best to refine its offerings, the company actively seeks client feedback and uses data and analytics across customer touchpoints. RPS encourages all its client-facing colleagues to develop an area of specialty, allowing them to deepen their knowledge about risks, markets, and jurisdictional issues. The firm’s ability to offer expert and holistic service is why it has been recognized by Insurance Business America as a 5-Star Wholesale Broker and MGA in 2025.

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