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H.W. Kaufman Financial Group/Burns & Wilcox recently promoted five executives to the position of vice president to support its strategy of growing the company’s national reach. The announcement was made by Chairman, President and CEO Alan Jay Kaufman.

Christopher Zoidis has been promoted to associate vice president. Zoidis continues in his position of director of corporate development and Special Risk Division – International.

Additionally, the following executives have been promoted to Burns & Wilcox vice presidents:

Jeffrey Diefenbach has been appointed vice president in Indiana. He continues in his role as manager of the company’s Indianapolis and Chicago offices. Diefenbach also has assumed responsibility as manager of the company’s Milwaukee office.

James Epting has been appointed vice president in Georgia. Epting also retains his role as manager of Burns & Wilcox’s Atlanta office.

Karen Toler has been appointed vice president in North Carolina. She retains responsibility for managing the Morehead City, N.C., office.

Reid Wilson has been appointed vice president in Utah. He continues in his role as manager for Burns & Wilcox’s Salt Lake City office as well as the company’s Reno and Las Vegas, Nev., offices.

Workers’ compensation provider Key Risk has named assistant vice president Joel Alligood as regional director for the company’s Southern Region, which includes Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Florida. The company also added a second regional director to handle the Atlantic Region, including Virginia and states to the north, and plans to add a third regional director responsible for North and South Carolina.

As regional director, Alligood will be responsible for overall profitability and growth of his territory, including direct oversight of regional office operations and overall quality of service delivery to clients and agents associated with underwriting, loss control, claims management and client services.

Markel Insurance Co. recently named Barrett Hubbard vice president of Markel Risk Solutions. Hubbard has held senior management positions at Markel, most recently as vice president of Markel Re. He was managing director and established the Toronto branch of Markel International. He also served as vice president of Marketing at Markel Insurance Co.

Also MRS has promoted Steve Glancey to vice president and underwriting manager. Glancey joined Markel Insurance Co. in 2005 as associate vice president, divisional underwriting officer. Before joining Markel, Glancey was chief casualty underwriter for Zurich Middle Markets, Zurich North America, and has worked for several national insurance carriers over his 20-year career.

Insurors of Tennessee has recognized Chip Hoover as the Arch E. Northington Young Agent of the Year. Hoover is principal agent of AGA Hoover LLC, an insurance agency in Murfreesboro, Tenn. The award is named for the former state national director and president of the Insurors of Tennessee and is given annually to a Young Agent member of the state association who has distinguished himself throughout the year, best exemplifying the qualities of a current and future leader in Tennessee’s independent insurance agent community.

Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty promoted Audrey Brown to the position of chief of staff with the Office of Insurance Regulation. Brown has served as the deputy chief of staff since June, overseeing Cabinet affairs, technology, market research, National Association of Insurance Commissioners and human resources functions. Prior to her most recent duties, Brown worked for nearly two years as the manager of contract compliance and administration for AvMed Health Plans in Gainesville, Fla. Brown joined the Office of Insurance Regulation in July 2003 as the cabinet and legislative affairs coordinator. Since then, she has held positions as the director of governmental affairs and the director of the Safe Homes for Florida Families program.

Brown replaces David Foy, who is leaving the OIR to become the policy director for Gov. Charlie Crist.

U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc., a managing general agency and surplus lines wholesaler, has named Peter Stanislaw as vice president and branch manager of Lighthouse Underwriters, a program underwriting subsidiary of Dallas-based U.S. Risk. Stanislaw will be responsible for managing the Annandale, Va.-based offices of Lighthouse, ensuring profitable growth both internally and through acquisitions, and identifying opportunities to add new underwritten programs and expand wholesale brokerage offerings.

Stanislaw joined Lighthouse in 2004 and most recently served as program director and production underwriter of PLPros, the company’s professional liability program. He will continue to manage this program. Prior to joining Lighthouse, he spent 25 years at Hillers & Wagner Agency Inc., and served as an insurance specialist and member of Dermody, Burke & Brown Financial Services.

Three industry executives, including two from AIG, have joined IronPro, the professional liability facility of Bermuda’s Ironshore, Inc.

Tom Leahy joins as senior vice president of Underwriting and will manage the New York-based underwriting teams. Leahy has 13 years of insurance industry experience including most recently serving as executive vice president, National Accounts Division of AIG Executive Liability, a subsidiary of American International Group, Inc.

Jeremy Frumkin and David Rogers have been hired to manage regional distribution and business development for the Western and Central regions, respectively. Frumkin joins IronPro as an assistant vice president located in San Francisco. Prior to joining IronPro, he was branch manager for National Accounts Division of AIG Executive Liability. Rogers also joins as an assistant vice president and will be based in Chicago. He previously worked at Endurance Insurance in Bermuda.

The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. announced that Robert P. Myron has been appointed director of corporate finance and treasurer. In this role, he will oversee the company’s corporate finance activities, including capital management and related initiatives, manage its treasury function and support business development and merger and acquisition efforts.

Myron comes to The Hanover from Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd., a Bermuda-based international underwriter of specialty insurance and reinsurance products in the property and casualty market. He was executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer at Argo Group, and prior to that was in the same role at PXRE Group Ltd., a Bermuda-based global reinsurance provider focused primarily on property catastrophe reinsurance and retrocessional coverage. PXRE was a publicly-owned company traded on the New York Stock Exchange until its recent merger with Argonaut Group, Inc., the predecessor company to Argo Group. Previously, he served as president of Select Reinsurance, a Bermuda-based provider of property/casualty and structured reinsurance, and prior to that served in management roles in audit and business advisory services at the international accounting and consulting firm of PriceWaterhouseCoopers.