People Moves: WSIA Elects Officers; RSUI’s McCrorie Becomes Chair

Wholesale & Specialty Insurance Association (WSIA) members elected Phillip McCrorie to serve as 2025-2026 WSIA Chair. McCrorie serves as CEO and chairman of RSUI. He joined the WSIA Board in 2021 and the executive committee in 2024.

Others elected for one-year terms as officers include:

• Vice Chair Patrick Albrecht, Associated Insurance Administrators, Inc., Montgomery, Alabama
• Secretary Wendy Houser, Markel Specialty, Dallas, Texas
• Treasurer Coryn Thalmann, Jimcor Agencies, Montvale, New Jersey
• Immediate Past Chair Brenda (Ballard) Austenfeld, RT Specialty, Naples, Florida

Members elected to three-year terms as directors are:

• Steve Boyd, Bridge Specialty Group, San Diego, California
• Gerald Dupre, Core Specialty, Atlanta, Georgia
• Danny Kaufman, Burns & Wilcox, Farmington Hills, Michigan
• Neil Kessler, CRC Group, Dallas, Texas
• Lou Levinson, Lexington Insurance Company, New York, New York
• Danielle Wade, Jackson Sumner & Associates, Boone, North Carolina

Outgoing directors include Annie Dawson, XS Brokers, Louisville, Kentucky (2024-2025) and Dave Obenauer, CRC Group, Charlotte, North Carolina (2015-2025).