People & Places

Atlanta-based NBIS appointed Joseph Savarese as senior vice president of underwriting. He will focus on the company’s eastern and western U.S. presence, working to establish a network of insurance agents and brokers in the contractors’ insurance market.

Savarese began his career as a reinsurance broker with Guy Carpenter and Company Inc., based in New York. Over the last 20 years he held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility within the insurance industry, most recently vice president and manager of the primary casualty department for Investors Underwriting Managers in Red Bank, N. J.

Zurich named Brian Doyle vice president of international program business. He will focus on driving continued growth in the large corporate market. Doyle began his insurance career at AIG in New York in 1972. He returns to Zurich from Royal and SunAlliance, where he managed the U.S. Risk Management and Global Property Practice unit. He previously worked for Zurich as a global regional manager for the Midwest region.

The PMA Insurance Group, a property and casualty insurer based in Blue Bell, Pa., promoted Stephen Warfel to senior vice president and chief actuary. Warfel is responsible for PMA’s actuarial function, including loss reserving and support for pricing, product development, strategic planning, statistical reporting and financial support.

He was previously PMA’s vice president and chief actuary. He joined the company in 1991 and has served in positions of increasing responsibility in PMA’s actuarial department.

PMA Management Corp., a provider of claims and other risk management services to individual and group self-insured programs, and a service affiliate of The PMA Insurance Group, promoted Michael MacAulay to vice president of sales. MacAulay is primarily responsible for leading all sales and marketing activities for PMA Management Corp.’s third-party administration and unbundled services in 12 states.

Previously, he was assistant vice president of sales, a position he held since 2000. He began his career at PMA in 1987 in the claims area and advanced into positions of increasing responsibility at both The PMA Insurance Group and PMA Management Corp.

David Macintosh has joined S. H Smith & Co., as regional manager, heading up the firm’s New York office. Macintosh most recently was branch manager and assistant vice president of Acadia Insurance’s Syracuse, New York office. Prior to that he was general manager and vice president of the Royal Sun Alliance of New York where he managed a full service commercial lines operation. S.H. Smith & Company is a national, independently-owned excess and surplus lines insurance broker, managing general agency and program administrator, with offices in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York and Ohio.

Jeffrey Slivka and Timothy Farrell have joined New Day Underwriting Managers LLC, an environmental insurance wholesale firm, based in Bordentown, N.J. Slivka joins New Day Underwriting as senior vice president of underwriting and Farrell joins the company as vice president of sales.

Slivka has spent the last 15 years developing his environmental and professional liability underwriting expertise at Aon, Arthur J. Gallagher, and ECS, Inc. (now XL Environmental).

Farrell is a 20-year veteran of the commercial property and casualty industry. He joined New Day Underwriting Managers after more than a decade selling environmental insurance coverages and services with XL Environmental. Prior to joining XL Environmental, Farrell worked in regional sales and marketing positions for Cigna and Maguire Insurance Group in Wynnewood, Pa.

St. Paul Travelers announced Brian MacLean has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer, reporting to Jay Fishman, president and chief executive officer. MacLean joined the company in 1988 as director of planning in the corporate finance department. In 1993, he was appointed chief financial officer for claims, and in 1996, became CFO for commercial lines. In 1999, he was named senior vice president to lead commercial lines select accounts, and was promoted to executive vice president and appointed to lead claims in 2002.

American Collectors Insurance Inc., a national specialty provider of collector-vehicle and collectibles insurance in Cherry Hill, N.J., announced the promotion of Laura Bergan to director of marketing. Bergan will direct outside vendors and internal marketing personnel, and will oversee advertising, public and media relations, and marketing/sales support. In addition, she will serve as company spokesperson for all product lines, including collector- vehicle insurance, driver’s education and collectibles insurance. She joined the firm in 2001 as an underwriter, and moved into agency sales and marketing in 2003.

Florida-based Hull & Company Inc. a wholesale insurance broker and managing general agency, has promoted Ed Calabrese to the position of president. Calabrese will retain the title of chief operating officer. Calabrese has been with the firms for 30 years. His accomplishments during that period of time have included presidencies of the American Association of Managing General Agents and the Florida Surplus Lines Association.

Hull & Company is in its 43rd year of operation and employs approximately 500 people in 20 offices coast to coast.

Former Commerce Secretary Donald Evans, a close friend of President Bush, will become the chief executive officer of the Financial Services Forum, a lobbying group for the country’s biggest financial service firms. The forum is composed of the chief executive officers of 18 of the largest financial service companies in the country including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, J.P Morgan Chase & Co., Allstate Insurance, American Express and American International Group.

The group also announced that Rob Nichols, currently U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow’s top spokesman at the Treasury Department, will become president of the forum on June 1. He succeeds former congressman Rick Lazio, who was the Republican candidate defeated in 2000 by Sen. Hillary Clinton in the New York Senate race.