People – West

Leavitt Group in Utah has named Rachael Woolsey vice president of personal lines.

Leavitt Group also named Kelly Pareti director of voluntary benefits enrollment.

Pareti will work with employee benefits agencies to provide enrollment and voluntary benefits solutions to clients.

Woolsey previously worked for MetLife counseling independent agencies.

Pareti previously worked for a national insurance company as a regional enrollment strategist.

Leavitt Group is a privately-held insurance brokerage.

Roamnet Insurance Marketing in Ontario, Calif., has named Rusty Manzo director of marketing.

He reports to Anthony Amorelli, president. Manzo will be responsible for new business development.

Manzo began his insurance career with Safeco Insurance. He then worked as Western region small business manager at OneBeacon. He was most recently with The Hanover Group as national affinity group and program manager.

Roamnet is an MGA/wholesaler.

Brian Weaver, senior vice president of sales for Aegis Specialty, was given the Brokers Insurance Group Hall of Fame award in May.

BIG is an association that works with the independent broker/producers in the state.

Weaver’s insurance career dates back to the 1970’s. In 1980 he took a position as the Southern California sales manager for The McGraw Group.

From the mid-1980’s through the early 2000’s, Weaver created a sales team to strengthen the company’s independent agent channel.

Marsh has named David Fuhrman to lead its West zone.

Fuhrman will be based in Marsh’s Los Angeles, Calif., office, and will report to Rob Bentley, president of Marsh’s U.S. and Canada division.

Marsh also announced that John Fuhrman is joining the firm in California to lead its Pacific South partnership.

David Fuhrman succeeds Peter Chandler. His experience includes working with Marsh earlier in his career. He was most recently Willis’ national partner for the California region.

John Fuhrman is based in Marsh’s Irvine, Calif., office, and will report to David Fuhrman.

John Fuhrman has held a range of management roles, including at Marsh earlier in his career. He was most recently a managing director with Willis.

Marsh is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc.

Starr Cos. has named Andrea Coleman regional vice president for the Western region.

Coleman will be located in Starr’s San Francisco office, where she will be responsible for the field leadership in the Western region. She reports to Robert Cruz, national branch officer and director of field operations in New York.

She has been in the industry for 15 years. Coleman previously was with CNA as branch vice president.

Starr provides property/casualty, and accident and health insurance products.

Tyler Nicholson has joined Rancho Cordova, Calif.-based Greenpath Insurance Co. as the director of marketing.

Nicholson has more than 10 years of sales and marketing experience. He was previously with FSC.

Greenpath’s specialties include the non-standard auto insurance market.

Propel Insurance has named Michael McCormick a sales executive in the firm’s construction practice.

McCormick will be working out of Propel’s Seattle, Wash., location.

His prior experience includes sales at Kibble & Prentice. He also was with Hub Northwest as the business development manager.

Propel is a Pacific Northwest-based insurance agency.

Beecher Carlson Insurance Services LLC has hired Rammy Streit and Robert Streit in its California offices.

The two will work out of the Woodland Hills and Orange County, Calif., offices and report to Kevin Maloy, executive managing director and national practice leader of the firm’s mergers and acquisitions practice.

Rammy Streit previously worked as an investment banker for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers.

Robert Streit has practiced corporate law as outside and in-house counsel. Previously, he was general counsel and senior managing director at Cadwyn Point Partners/Cadwyn Asset Management.

Beecher Carlson is a risk management broker.