People – East

Insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro appointed Ruth Kilduff as chairman, and Anne Anderson as president of its United States operations, Integro USA.

Both Kilduff and Anderson are Integro veterans. Kilduff leads the firm’s healthcare practice and its Boston operations, while Anderson leads the firm’s New York operations. Both are also members of the firm’s operations committee. Kilduff will continue to be based in Boston and Anderson in New York.

The Kilduff and Anderson appointments follow a recently announced management reordering at the firm, which included promoting Marc Kunney, formerly president of Integro USA, to president of Integro’s North America operations. Kunney was also named to the five-member executive committee to assume management responsibilities in wake of the firm’s co-founding CEO Peter Garvey’s departure in May.

Kilduff brings more than 30 years of experience in healthcare, as well as healthcare insurance, to her new role as chairman of Integro USA. She has specific expertise in professional liability, alternative risk financing and risk consulting. Prior to joining Integro in 2006, Kilduff served as a managing director at Marsh.

Anderson has more than 30 years of experience in risk management account design, placement and service implementation with a background in underwriting, facultative reinsurance and brokerage. She joined the firm in 2005. Previously, Anderson served as Integro’s property and international practice leader, as well as in similar roles at Palmer & Cay and at Marsh.

Markel Corp. has appointed Thomas K. “Smitty” Smith to the newly-created position of chief marketing officer. In his new role, he is responsible for business development, branding, managing strategic relationships, creating digital assets, and corporate advertising/marketing activities. Smith joined Markel in 2007 and has 30 years of insurance industry experience.

Smith will report to Mike Crowley, president and co-chief operating officer, and continue working at Markel’s corporate headquarters in Richmond, Va.

The Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority (IFPA) in Mechanicsburg, Penn., has appointed Thomas A. Donahue III as executive director. Donahue succeeds current Executive Director Ralph Burnham who plans to retire.

Donahue began his insurance fraud investigation career in 1997 as an investigator and then as manager of AAA Mid-Atlantic Insurance Group’s Pennsylvania Special Investigation Unit (SIU). In 2005, he became SIU manager for Unitrin Direct Auto Insurance Co.’s eastern region, and in 2008 became Unitrin’s national SIU manager.

Since 2011, Donahue has managed Kemper Service Group’s eastern regional SIU. A member of the International Association of Special Investigation Units (IASIU), he has since 2002 led the Delaware Valley Chapter of IASIU as president.

IFPA was created by an Act of the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 1995. IFPA serves as an independent state agency whose purpose is to combat insurance fraud throughout the state.

Wyatt Stewart has joined the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (Big “I”) Capitol Hill team as director of federal government affairs. Stewart, a native of Washington, D.C., joins a bipartisan lobbying team primarily as a liaison to Republican congressional offices.

The position was previously held by Ryan Young who recently departed the agents’ association to serve as director of business development for Husky Rack & Wire in Denver, N.C., according to the announcement. Stewart previously served as advisor for policy and coalitions for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.).

XL Group has appointed Dave Schmitz to lead its global Property Risk Engineering Services, including XL Global Asset Protection Services, a network of risk engineers who provide on-site property risk analysis and support clients’ property loss prevention programs.

Schmitz is based in XL’s Atlanta office, reporting to Michele Sansone, president, North America Property for XL Group’s Insurance Operations. He has 25 years of experience in the insurance industry, the last 16 years at Zurich Insurance, where he most recently held the role of head of Property, South Region.

Schmitz succeeds Tim Heinze, who has taken on the role of Property operations officer for XL Group’s Insurance Operations.

The A.I.M Mutual Insurance Cos., a workers’ compensation insurer in Burlington, Mass., promoted Wayne Grudzien to director of injury prevention and worksite wellness (IPWW).

Grudzien brings 28 years of workers’ comp injury prevention experience to the position and, most recently, had been senior manager for IPWW. He joined the company in 2002 as a loss control manager. Grudzien previously held consulting, supervisory, and management positions with several national and regional carriers.