Headquarters:
Farmington Hills, Michigan
Year founded:
1969
Number of employees:
30
Phone:
248 539 9000
Email:
hello@worthyinsurance.com
Website:
burnsandwilcox.com
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/burns-&-wilcox
"We are constantly living by our core values: integrity, impact and teamwork"
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Alan J Kaufman
Chairman, President and CEO, HW Kaufman Group
Daniel Kaufman
President, Burns & Wilcox
Greg Morris
Senior Vice President, Business Development
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Alan Jay Kaufman is chairman, president and CEO of H W Kaufman Group, a global network of companies dedicated to shaping the insurance industry. The flagship subsidiary, Burns & Wilcox, maintains relationships with the industry’s most respected insurance carriers and delivers solutions to brokers and agents for difficult-to-place, complex, and unusual risks.
Chairman, President and CEO, HW Kaufman Group
Alan J Kaufman
Daniel Kaufman is executive vice president for H W Kaufman Group and president of Burns & Wilcox. A privately held and leading specialty insurance wholesaler, Burns & Wilcox is based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and has offices in the US, Canada, and the UK.
President, Burns & Wilcox
Daniel Kaufman
Greg Morris leads specialty sales at Patra, where he is responsible for driving growth with insurance companies, MGAs, wholesalers, insurtech and premium finance companies. Before Patra acquired Greg’s company, QBIS, in 2019, he had sold two insurtech companies that were focused on driving simplicity, speed, and modern processes to the insurance industry.
Senior Vice President, Business Development
Greg Morris
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Sharon Kern
Senior Vice President, Sales, Broker Division
Sharon Kern has over 35 years of direct sales and sales management in multiple verticals, including insurance and financial services focused on commercial, P&C insurance, BGAs, MGAs, IMOs, FMLs, carriers, bank/broker dealers and financial institutions.
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Sharon Kern
Jeff Arricale
Chief Financial Officer
Through leadership, approachability and expert knowledge of the finance industry and corresponding consumer trends, Jordan Mutton has led award-winning, high-performing teams, continually exceeding benchmarks. Building relationships is core to Jordan’s values, a skillset that has positioned him as a key leader within the industry.
Head of Inside Sales
Jordan Mutton
Burns & Wilcox is a privately held, wholesale specialty insurance broker and underwriting manager internationally recognized for its commercial and professional liability, property, environmental, marine, and personal insurance expertise. As a member of the H W Kaufman Group network, Burns & Wilcox combines its global scale and clout as an industry leader with the values and stability of a family-owned business. Putting people first has fueled its success for more than 50 years.
The dedicated team at Burns & Wilcox thrives in a dynamic environment with opportunities for creativity, innovation, and advancement. With a workforce of more than 2,000, the organization embraces individuals from diverse backgrounds and ensures that all employees feel supported and recognized. Emphasis is placed on encouraging team members to realize their full potential by means of educational and development resources through the company’s award-winning professional training program, Kaufman Institute. Burns & Wilcox invests in its employees at all levels by enhancing their technical underwriting and sales skills and giving them access to leadership advancement opportunities.
The company also understands that employees want to be a part of a purpose-driven organization that not only demonstrates how leadership cares about their growth but also the development and wellness of others. The company is known for consistently giving back to the communities in which they do business in a variety of ways – a passion that has evolved into a signature philanthropic initiative called Champions & Charities. This program celebrates community-giving efforts by associates, encouraging every champion within Team Burns & Wilcox to be their best selves at work and in the community by extending resources to various organizations. Employees are also given two paid days for volunteer activities each year.
“Now, we have much more frequent recognition awards because we want to celebrate people staying at CAAT and recognize the contributions that they bring to the organization”
Julie Giraldi,
CAAT Pension Plan
Alex Ventura
Head of Marketing
Dave Longbottom
Chief Technology Officer
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Sarah M Stewart
Associate Vice President,
Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Alex Ventura has a wealth of experience and passion for martech across the financial services sector – including B2B and B2C – with a focus on delivering exemplary omnichannel experiences. Alex is responsible for driving brands in the digital age with strategies that evoke a brand’s personality and corresponding values. Mapping customer journeys encompassing systematic and programmatic technologies has been key to his successful strategies.
Head of Marketing
Alex Ventura
With a superior understanding of web design and architecture, Dave Longbottom has been pivotal in orchestrating the development of new technologies, which are aligned with business objectives, and pioneering industry-leading solutions. Dave’s tenacity to push the status quo has led to the development of innovative solutions encompassing the latest emerging technological trends and cyber security frameworks.
Chief Technology Officer
Dave Longbottom
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
Alex Ventura
Head of Marketing
Sarah M Stewart
Associate Vice President, Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Dave Longbottom
Chief Technology Officer
Alex Ventura has a wealth of experience and passion for martech across the financial services sector – including B2B and B2C – with a focus on delivering exemplary omnichannel experiences. Alex is responsible for driving brands in the digital age with strategies that evoke a brand’s personality and corresponding values. Mapping customer journeys encompassing systematic and programmatic technologies has been key to his successful strategies.
Head of Marketing
Alex Ventura
With a superior understanding of web design and architecture, Dave Longbottom has been pivotal in orchestrating the development of new technologies, which are aligned with business objectives, and pioneering industry-leading solutions. Dave’s tenacity to push the status quo has led to the development of innovative solutions encompassing the latest emerging technological trends and cyber security frameworks.
Chief Technology Officer
Dave Longbottom
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
Sonia Ahuja
Chief Operating Officer
Sanjay Mehta
EVP and Chief Market Officer
John Laurie
Chief Partnership Officer
Anthony Dippolito
Chief Wellness Officer
Alex Ventura has a wealth of experience and passion for martech across the financial services sector – including B2B and B2C – with a focus on delivering exemplary omnichannel experiences. Alex is responsible for driving brands in the digital age with strategies that evoke a brand’s personality and corresponding values. Mapping customer journeys encompassing systematic and programmatic technologies has been key to his successful strategies.
Head of Marketing
Alex Ventura
With a superior understanding of web design and architecture, Dave Longbottom has been pivotal in orchestrating the development of new technologies, which are aligned with business objectives, and pioneering industry-leading solutions. Dave’s tenacity to push the status quo has led to the development of innovative solutions encompassing the latest emerging technological trends and cyber security frameworks.
Chief Technology Officer
Dave Longbottom
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
