People – Southeast

Insurance broker and risk consultant Marsh reported that Thadd Wallace has joined the firm as a managing director in the Global Risk Management Practice in Atlanta. In this role, Wallace will work with Don Bailey, head of industry and sales for Marsh’s U.S. and Canada division, in leading teams serving Marsh’s largest clients in the Southeast.

Wallace joins Marsh from Willis, where he spent the last 13 years, most recently serving as Willis Risk Solutions’ Southeast leader.

Florida-based insurance intermediary Brown & Brown Inc. has appointed J. Neal Abernathy as a senior vice president of its wholesale division.

Abernathy will continue to serve as chairman of Decus Insurance Brokers Ltd., the London brokerage operation Brown & Brown launched in 2008, and he will join Brown & Brown’s senior leadership team.

Abernathy will continue to report to Tony Strianese, wholesale division president.

Abernathy joined Brown & Brown in November of 2013, after seven years leading U.S. operations at wholesaler Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford. Abernathy’s exit was part of a management shake-up after New York private-equity firm Lightyear Capital took a controlling interest in CGSC.

Brown & Brown’s wholesale division sells excess and surplus commercial and personal insurance products to retail agencies and reinsurance to insurance companies throughout the U.S.

ACE Group announced executive appointments in its high net worth personal lines insurance business, ACE Private Risk Services, naming Annmarie Camp as senior vice president, National Sales and Distribution leader, Shannon Detroit as vice president, Central Region, and Heather Cabra as vice president, Southern Region.

Based in Basking Ridge, N.J., Camp will be responsible for overseeing the U.S. distribution of ACE Private Risk Services’ products and services including specialized home, auto, watercraft, valuable collections, and umbrella liability insurance through independent agents and brokers. Camp will also continue in her role as Group Umbrella practice leader. She will report to Mary Boyd, division president, ACE Private Risk Services.

Camp joined ACE Private Risk Services in 2009 as the regional vice president for the Northeastern Region. In late 2011, she moved to the Southeastern Region, leading expansion into Texas and the Carolinas. In 2013, she also led the national launch of ACE Private Risk Services’ group umbrella program.

Detroit and Cabra will oversee the local field marketing, underwriting, claims, risk consulting, and agency services teams in ACE Private Risk Services’ Central and Southern Regions, respectively. They will both report directly to Camp.

Detroit joined ACE Private Risk Services in 2010 as territory manager for Washington and Oregon. In March of 2013, he relocated to Texas and assumed the role of distribution leader. Detroit has more than 13 years of high net worth personal insurance experience and spent eight years as regional marketing manager for a U.S.-based personal lines carrier.

Cabra joins ACE from a global personal lines carrier, where she spent more than 20 years in senior regional management and distribution leadership roles, including serving as vice president of a U.S.-based personal lines carrier with senior management responsibilities.

Surplus lines broker J.M. Wilson announced the addition of Wendy Wotring as a sales and agency relations specialist for North Carolina and Tennessee.

Wotring has held a variety of positions in the insurance industry over the past 25 years, 13 of which she worked for an insurance agency. Most recently, she worked with The Colonial Group as a sales and marketing representative for North Carolina and Virginia. Prior to that, she worked as a personal lines underwriter, before moving on to Piedmont Mutual Insurance Co. as a personal lines manager.

J.M. Wilson is a managing general agency and surplus lines broker providing independent insurance agents access to specialty markets for both personal and commercial lines. It has branch and affiliate offices in eight states.

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has named Robley Moor as head of casualty North America. With this appointment, Moor becomes managing director. He succeeds Daniel Vetter, who has been promoted to global head of casualty in the Products & Global Markets unit of Corporate Solutions.

Moor and Vetter will be based in New York City.

Moor will lead the Casualty North America underwriting team, responsible for operations in the U.S. and Canada. He will report to Robert Petrilli, head of North America. Moor joined Swiss Re in 2001. In 2007, he was promoted to senior vice president and has led the Central U.S. regional casualty team in Chicago since that time.

Vetter, as global head of casualty, will report to Nikolaj Beck, head of Property & Casualty and Special Lines. His role includes large transactions, new products, and the company’s casualty underwriting and growth strategy. Vetter joined Swiss Re in 2000 and served as head of casualty North America from 2007-2014.