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Denver, Colo.-based Van Gilder Insurance Corp. named Don Woods its new president.
Woods is co-founder and CEO of Community Bankshares Inc. and its subsidiaries.
Under Woods, Community Bankshares Inc. grew to over $2 billion in assets and had 42 branches in Colorado and northern California.
A privately held insurance brokerage firm, Van Gilder is in its fourth generation of leadership by the Van Gilder family.
The Assurant Solar Group named Cindy Henry as the new director of solar underwriting and account management.
Henry will be based in Fountain Valley, Calif. and support the company’s solar insurance business.
Henry has more than 33 years of experience in the insurance industry, including 26 years specializing in renewable energy.
Prior to Assurant, Henry was vice president of underwriting at PowerGuard Specialty Insurance Services. Before that Henry co-founded WorldLink Insurance Services where she managed a retail book of a wind energy accounts. She also co-authored the “WindPro,” a policy form for the wind energy industry.
California Department of Workers’ Compensation Director Rosa Moran, one of the members of Gov. Jerry Brown’s Department of Industrial Relations team that helped to hammer out a last-minute deal to reform California’s workers’ compensation system, has stepped down.
The announcement was made earlier this month with little detail offered for her departure other than she was returning to work as a judge. Moran was originally appointed on July 18, 2011.
As head of DWC, Moran managed a staff of over 1,000 and a budget of $155 million, according to DIR. Moran had served as a workers’ compensation judge since 2005. Previously, she was an attorney in private practice.
San Ramon, Calif.-based Edgewood Partners Insurance Center named Connie Rowe vice president and business development executive in the firm’s San Ramon-based Programs Group.
Rowe will expand her support of EPIC’s highly successful insurance programs for McDonald’s owners and operators to include new business development responsibilities. Her background in relationship management, business operations, loss prevention and claims management made her a fit for McDonald’s restaurant operators, the company stated.
Rowe has 25 years of experience in claims management, safety program development and workers’ compensation cost control. Prior to EPIC Rowe held a range of positions for employers and insurance companies.
EPIC operates from eight offices across California.
Salt Lake City, Utah-based The MGIS Companies Inc., a provider of insurance products and services specifically for physicians, named Michael G. Green vice president of IT operations.
Green will lead the development and implementation of strategic IT systems for MGIS and its subsidiary companies.
Green has more than 16 years of experience in IT. Most recently he was data center operations manager at ADP AdvancedMD. Previously, Green was with Symantec PGP Corp.
MGIS provides products and services to more than 10,000 physician groups, 900,000 group members, and 300,000 physicians nationwide.