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Boston-headquartered insurance giant Liberty Mutual Insurance said its board of directors elected CEO David Long, 52, as chairman of Liberty Mutual Insurance, effective June 28, 2013. Long will succeed Edmund “Ted” Kelly, 67, who is retiring as chairman and director at the end of June. Long will continue to be president and CEO in addition to taking on the chairman post.

Kelly has been serving Liberty Mutual in leadership roles for more than two decades. He was elected as CEO in 1998 and as chairman of Liberty Mutual in 2000. He retired from the company in June 2011 and continued as chairman of the board. Under Kelly’s watch, the company expanded its businesses by acquiring Safeco Insurance and continued to enhance its global operations.

Long has served in various leadership positions at Liberty Mutual over his 28-year career with the company. He began his career at the company in 1985 and has held positions of increasing responsibility. Long became president in 2010 and CEO in 2011.

Liberty Mutual also announced the promotion of Glenn Shapiro to the role of executive vice president and chief claims officer for its commercial insurance. Shapiro succeeds George Neale, who recently retired from the company. Based in the company’s Boston home office, Shapiro will lead the commercial lines claims organization.

Bill Keogh, who last month resigned as president of catastrophe risk modeling firm Eqecat, has joined Stamford, Conn.-based reinsurance broking and risk/capital management firm TigerRisk Partners. Keogh joins TigerRisk as a partner and will be a member of the corporate Decision Support Team. Meanwhile, Oakland, Calif.-based Eqecat named Paul Little as its new president. Little has been with Eqecat as senior vice president since 2010.

Aon Risk Solutions appointed Evangelos Sekeris as director of operational risk consulting in the Columbia, Md. office. Previously, Sekeris was assistant vice president of the policy analysis unit in the supervision and regulation department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

CMIC, a Glastonbury, Conn.-based medical professional liability insurer, appointed Kevin Bresnahan as director of claims. Previously, he was a claims manager of the national accounts unbundled claim unit at Discover RE/Travelers.