Leadership & Strategy
APIW to Honor Vaughan as 2014 Insurance Woman of the Year
The Association of Professional Insurance Women has selected Therese M. Vaughan as this year's recipient of the APIW Insurance Woman of the Year Award. A cocktail reception and award ceremony ...
Ironshore Names Executive Committee to Drive Growth Strategy
Specialty insurer Ironshore Inc. said it has formed a Group Executive Leadership Committee to formulate the firm's strategy for continued growth and enhanced performance of its group of companies ...
Could Smart Computers Really Replace Half of U.S. Jobs?
Who needs an army of lawyers when you have a computer? When Minneapolis attorney William Greene faced the task of combing through 1.3 million electronic documents in a recent case, he turned to a ...
Women in Business Must Take on Adventure
Women in the world of finance must not be scared to look further afield if opportunities at their current employer dry up. It's a key lesson that Sophie Javary learned when she became pregnant early ...
From the Front Lines to the C-Suite: Farmers’ David Travers
When he was taking policyholder phone calls as a customer representative for a direct writing carrier 26 years ago, David Travers did not have designs on a position in the C-suite of an agency ...
Endurance Specialty’s Catherine Kalaydjian: Thriving With Change
Just six months after John Charman took the reins of Endurance Specialty Holdings in May 2013, he announced to the investor community that the management team had been completely restructured. In ...
RLI’s Michael Stone: Managing People Is the Key to COO Role
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…" With apologies to Rudyard Kipling, you might finish that sentence with the phrase "you can be the chief operating officer of a ...
RLI Takes LEAD on Succession Planning With Formal Talent Program
Michael Stone, the chief operating officer of specialty insurer RLI Corp., is perfectly clear about the role of leaders in the property/casualty industry. "At the end of the day, it's all about ...