People
Woodruff Sawyer has expanded its New England office’s leadership structure due to growth it has seen in the past two years.
As part of this initiative, it has positioned its three leaders in roles that designed to support growth in the New England region and the East Coast.
Sean Coady has been named New England practice leader and will lead the overall strategic plan for the region.
Matt Field has been named New England growth leader and will be responsible for sales, growth, recruiting and specialty capabilities.
Dan McMullen has been named New England practice manager and will oversee all operations and staff management.
Previously, Coady, Field and McMullen were founding partners of Capstone Insurance, later renamed EBS Capstone. Woodruff Sawyer acquired Capstone Insurance in 2015.
Woodruff Sawyer, headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., provides coverage against risks in property and casualty, management liability, cyber liability, employee benefits and personal wealth management.
It is an active partner of Assurex Global and International Benefits Network.
USA Risk Group (USARG), a Barre, Vt.-based independent captive management firm, has promoted Cindy Lyford to senior vice president.
Lyford currently serves as office head for the Vermont and Western domiciled captive insurance business. Prior to her promotion, she served in the role of vice president.
She has been involved in the insurance industry for more than 20 years, having joined USARG in 2000.
USARG is a wholly owned subsidiary of Spencer Capital Holdings Ltd.
Alliant Employee Benefits has hired Pittsburgh, Penn.-based benefits consultant Mark Weber as vice president.
In this role, Weber will bring his quantitative analysis and strategic problem solving skills to Alliant’s service platform, working to deliver strategies that optimize performance and reduce healthcare costs.
Prior to joining Alliant, Weber was assistant vice president of benefits consulting with a large insurance and financial services company.
Alliant Employee Benefits delivers benefits programs with capabilities including employee engagement, plan negotiation, benefits administration, analytics, health and wellness, compliance and all other aspects of benefits planning and administration.
Headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif., Alliant Insurance Services Inc. provides property and casualty, workers’ compensation, employee benefits, surety and financial products and services to clients nationwide, including public entities, tribal nations, healthcare, energy, law firms, real estate, construction and other industry groups.
Greenhill & Co. Inc., an independent investment bank, has hired Matthew Morris in New York as a managing director and head of Insurance Corporate Advisory.
Morris has 21 years of investment banking experience focused on the insurance industry. Most recently, he served as a managing director at Willis Towers Watson Securities, a specialized investment banking boutique focused exclusively on the insurance industry and is a unit of Willis Towers Watson.
Prior to that, he was a managing director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he spent 12 years. He began his career with Ernst & Young.
MEMIC, a Portland, Maine-headquartered workers’ compensation specialist, has appointed Barrett Parks to the position of safety management consultant.
Parks has worked as a logger, equipment operator, technical high school instructor and most recently for the state of Maine as an assistant engineer designing drainage systems.
He is a Maine-registered engineer-in-training, certified logging professional and commercial driver.
The MEMIC Group includes MEMIC Indemnity Company, MEMIC Casualty Company and parent company Maine Employers’ Mutual Insurance Company.
Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (MGIC), the principal subsidiary of MGIC Investment Corporation, has hired Greg Korn as sales manager in New England.
Korn brings to MGIC a mortgage banking background with expertise in business development, sales management, risk management and compliance.
In his new role, Korn will assume business development responsibility and oversight for accounts in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine.
He will also be responsible for managing the business development team for New England.