USI Appoints Employee Benefits Advisor in New York Metro Office

USI Insurance Services has hired Mary Jo Jacobs as vice president and employee benefits advisor. She is based in USI’s New York metropolitan office.

With more than 25 years of experience in human resources, Jacobs will apply her benefits knowledge to serve as a producer at USI. For nearly 10 years, Jacobs served as the director of benefits and facilities at MediaOcean LLC, an advertising software development firm, where she directed the company’s benefits, human resources information system, compensation and various HR projects as well as the management of their facilities.

Prior to that, Jacobs spent nearly 20 years at investment firm Scudder, Stevens & Clark (bought by Deutsche Asset Management), eventually serving as vice president of human resources.

With more than 4,000 professionals, USI provides middle market property/casualty, employee benefits, personal lines, retirement, program and specialty business. USI is headquartered in Valhalla, N.Y., and operates out of more than 140 offices across the United States. USI was ranked third in Insurance Journal‘s 2013 list of top privately-held property/casualty insurance agencies in the U.S.