Markel’s Michael Crowley: Former Broker COO Deepening Carrier Sales Culture

March 13, 2014 by Susanne Sclafane

Michael Crowley had been in the chief operating role of property/casualty insurance organizations for nearly two decades when he signed on to be an executive for Markel Corp. in 2009.

Executive Summary

With 35 years of experience on the retail brokerage side of the business, including several prior stints as a chief operating officer, Michael Crowley brings a different skill set—and a passion for sales—to his role as co-COO at Markel Corp. This article is part of a five-part series of profiles of COOs of P/C insurers.
Executive SummaryWith 35 years of experience on the retail brokerage side of the business, including several prior stints as a chief operating officer, Michael Crowley brings a different skill set—and a passion for sales—to his role as co-COO at Markel Corp.

This article is part of a five-part series of profiles of COOs of P/C insurers.

But for all of those years—in fact, for his entire career in the insurance industry dating back to 1974—Crowley had been on the retail brokerage side of the business.