People – West
Capital Insurance Group has named Dawnya Campbell agency development manager for the Western portion of the Bay Area Territory in the Northern California Region.
The regional team serves independent agents for agri-business, personal lines and commercial lines accounts. Campbell will be working mainly with agents in the Peninsula and Western portion of the Bay Area.
Campbell has nearly 20 years of insurance experience. She began on the agency side in new and renewal account marketing. For the past 15 years, she has managed agents, production and profit for national and regional P/C carriers.
CIG insures personal auto, homeowners, farmowners, condo owners, vacation property, renters, apartment building owners, and other types of commercial and agricultural auto and property.
USG Insurance Services Inc. has launched a new office in San Diego, Calif. and hired Michael Tourtellott as a producer and broker in the office.
Tourtellott will handle commercial lines accounts nationally, with a focus on their product lines.
Tourtellott has extensive knowledge and experience in the energy, oil, and gas sector. Prior to USG, Tourtellott was a broker at Sloan Mason Insurance Services and account executive at G.S. Levine Insurance Services Inc.
USG is a national wholesaler and managing general agent with 17 offices across the country.
Dustin Wittwer has joined Dixie Leavitt Agency’s Cedar City, Utah sales office specializing in commercial insurance.
Wittwer has a background in sales and experience working as a department manager at Scheel’s Sporting Goods.
Dixie Leavitt Agency is part of Leavitt Group.
Pinnacol Assurance in Colorado has named Barbara Brannen vice president of human resources.
Brannen will oversee the company’s human resources and learning and organizational development areas.
Brannen has 35 years of experience. Her previous roles include vice president of human resources at Innovative Services of America, Qwest Communications and Rose Medical Center. She also served as director of human resources for the University of Denver and Thera-Care in Boston. For the past 12 years, she has provided human resources services through her company, Playmore LLC.
Pinnacol provides safety and wellness programs to more than 55,000 Colorado businesses.
PMC Insurance Group has named Tim Viccari regional vice president in the West region.
Viccari will be responsible for growth in the region focusing on agency development, market relationships and overseeing the firm’s new business underwriting team.
He comes from PMC from Brown & Brown/Beecher Carlson.
PMC Insurance is a national workers’ compensation wholesaler.
Mark Atkins has joined OneBeacon Surety Group as vice president overseeing the Northwest region.
Atkins will service Alaska, Northern California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming.
Atkins has more than 15 years of financial services experience, the most recent spent in the surety industry.
OneBeacon is a Bermuda-domiciled holding company that is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “OB.”
Worldwide Facilities Inc. has named Joe Rowland vice president and broker specializing in casualty products in its Irvine, Calif. office.
Rowland will be responsible for new business development in the casualty arena.
Rowland has more than 25 years of casualty brokerage experience. He previously worked with the CRC Wholesale Group in Santa Ana.
Worldwide Facilities is a national wholesale insurance broker and managing general agent.
Pacific Compensation Insurance Co. has named Ronnie O’Dell corporate development director.
O’Dell will focus on expanding PacificComp’s presence in the California workers’ compensation marketplace. He will be based in the Pacific Compensation’s Agoura Hills, Calif. office.
O’Dell has more than 20 years of sales, marketing and business development experience. Most recently, O’Dell was program manager for Alternative Risk Marketing, a non-standard workers’ compensation market for middle market high hazard high experience modification risks. He also served as the marketing and business development manager at Atlas General Insurance Services LLC. O’Dell has also held managerial positions at ADP, Kurt Salmon Consulting and Allianz USA.
Agoura Hills-based Pacific Compensation, a subsidiary of Alleghany Corp., is a specialty writer of workers’ comp insurance.