People Moves: Alliant in California Names VanZanten VP in Employee Benefits group; Burns & Wilcox Adds New Associates

Alliant Insurance Services named Kerstin VanZanten vice president within its employee benefits group.

VanZanten is based in Orange County, California.

VanZanten’s background includes experience in benefits communication and enrollment and leadership roles with various large insurance carriers.

VanZanten previously was with EOI Service Co., and was with Transamerica Employee Benefits before that.

Alliant is a distributors of diversified insurance products and services.

Burns & Wilcox added new associates specializing in architects and engineers insurance and management liability to its professional liability practice group.

Maria Small joins as a professional liability broker and is based in San Francisco, California. Small has 15 years of industry experience.

She most recently worked at Sequoia Consulting Group.

The others joining Burns & Wilcox Tameka Livatino and Erin Pritchett. Livatino joins as underwriting director of architects and engineers, and based in Chicago, Illinois. Pritchett joins as a professional liability broker based out of the Detroit/Farmington Hills corporate headquarters in Michigan.

Burns & Wilcox is a member of H.W. Kaufman Group.