The Insurance Coffee House with Nick Hoadley

Season Two - Episode Nineteen Joining us in the Insurance Coffee House USA this week is Michele Twyman. Michele is Executive Vice President and Head of Commercial for the New York region at Chubb. Michele has a wealth of experience as an insurance business leader and she shares with us her successful career journey at Chubb which has spanned over 35 years. She advises of the tremendous opportuniti...

Season Two - Episode 18 – Empathetic Leadership In the Insurance Coffee House this week, we have not one, not two, but three senior leaders from the insurance industry simultaneously joining us as guests on the show. Amy Evans, Maggie Jaltorossian and Jayne Miller sit on the leadership team at Intercare, a national and privately held TPA leader in Workers' Compensation and Liability Claims Adminis...

Season Two - Episode Seventeen Joining us in the Insurance Coffee House USA for the second episode this week, we have Megan Miller who is the Executive Director at Spencer Educational Foundation. Spencer are a non-profit organisation who provide scholarship funding to college students seeking a career in Insurance and Risk Management. Megan started her career in claims and worked her way up into s...

Season Two - Episode Sixteen Joining us in the Insurance Coffee House USA this week is Ed Page, President and COO of Relation Insurance, a leading insurance agency based in California. Ed has a fervent and infectious passion for culture in the workplace and teaches us how to establish and embed it into insurance businesses. This burning ambition to create a great place to work started during his c...

Season Two - Episode Fifteen This week on the Insurance Coffee House USA, we are joined by David Sandler, President of Risk Management at Everest Insurance. David joined Everest Insurance in April 2016 to head up the Risk Management Group and in that time they have achieved massive growth - hiring 900 insurance professionals, launching 150 new products / services and tripling the size of the busin...

Season Two - Episode Fourteen We are delighted to host Keith Mann, COO & CFO of Scott Insurance on this weeks’ episode of the Insurance Coffee House USA. Scott Insurance are a large independent agency headquartered in Lynchburg, Virginia with multiple offices across the state and in Tennessee and North & South Carolina. Keith shares with us his story of his career, before going on to discu...

Season Two - Episode Thirteen This week on the Insurance Coffee House USA, we are joined by Kyle Samuel. Kyle is the President of M&T Insurance Agency which is a key part of the wider M&T Bank family operating across the country. Kyle shares with us his extensive insurance career path which started in underwriting before spending 17 years as a broker and leader at Aon and then transitionin...

Season Two - Episode Twelve Joining us in the Insurance Coffee House USA this week, we have a great guest in Dan Keough. Dan is the Chairman and CEO of Holmes Murphy & Associates, Co-CEO/Co-Founder of BrokerTech Ventures and Founder & Chairman of Innovative Captive Strategies. A leading insurance executive with his fingers on the pulse of technology and insurtech, Dan shares with us a...

Season Two - Episode Eleven This week we are delighted to be joined Kristen Martin, who is the President and COO of leading multi-line insurance carrier Utica National Insurance Group. Kristen joins our list of guests who started their careers as lawyers before moving into risk management and leading successful careers at the top of insurance businesses. Kristen shares with us her journey at Utica...

Season Two - Episode Ten We are very pleased to welcome the Chief Executive of Skyward Specialty Insurance, Andrew Robinson to the show this week. Andrew is one the leading Insurance / Insurtech executives in America and since taking over as the CEO of Skyward Specialty (formerly Houston International Insurance Group) in May 2020, Andrew has led the business through great change and transformation...

Season Two - Episode Nine Joining us in the Insurance Coffee House USA this week, we have David Vanalek, the COO of Claims at Markel. David gives us a fascinating tour through his career path and offers us a great insight into the transition he took from private practise litigation attorney into insurance claims and his subsequent progression into his senior leadership position at Markel. He discu...

Season Two – Episode Eight Joining us this week is a very special guest and friend of the show, Pierre Morrisseau, CEO of OneGroup based in New York. Pierre shares with us his journey with OneGroup including how the company has transformed from insurance agency into the high-performance full service advisory group it is today. He also discusses how he arrived in the industry from his engineering b...

Season One, Episode 18 – Bonus Episode Rowan Bamford, President of Liberty’s Global Transaction Solutions division joins us for a special bonus episode of the Insurance Coffee House. Liberty GTS is a global insurance carrier specialising in underwriting policies for international M&A transactions and have teams based across North America, APAC, EMEA and London. Rowan discusses his career trans...

Season Two - Episode Six This week we are very happy to welcome Jeff Lumpp to the Insurance Coffee House. Jeff is the President of the Grand Rapids, Michigan office at Hylant and we are delighted to have him join us on the show. Jeff shares with us his journey from a background in Corporate Finance to his leadership position in the insurance industry. He advises on the importance of quickly buildi...

Season Two - Episode Six In an Insurance Coffee House first, we welcome father and son Insurance Business Leaders, Duane and Jason Smith to the show. Duane is the former CEO of TrueNorth Companies, L.C. a position he held for over twenty years until he was succeeded by Jason in January 2020. In this episode we take a deep dive into the succession process and hear how TrueNorth planned and executed...

Season Two - Episode Five We are delighted to host Brett Godwin, COO of Sterling Seacrest Partners on episode Five of the Insurance Coffee House USA. Sterling Seacrest are a large independent insurance agency headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with offices in Tampa, Savannah and other locations across the South East of the United States. Brett shares with us the story of his career, before going o...

Season Two - Episode Four Joining us on Episode Four of the Insurance Coffee House USA, we have Frank Costa who is the COO of World Insurance Associates. World Insurance Associates are very much on the Acquisition Trail and as COO, Frank is a leading driving force both on the new target strategy and also the integration of the acquired businesses into the company. Frank shares with us how to thriv...

Season Two - Episode Three Joining us on Episode Three of the Insurance Coffee House USA, we have Carl Bloomfield who is the Managing Director of the New York City office at the Graham Company. Carl shares with us his passion for leadership and gives us a great insight into what he believes you need in order to be a successful leader. Carl explains how leadership and position are two distinct thin...

On Episode Two of the Insurance Coffee House USA, we are joined by Jon Loftin who is the President & COO of MJ Insurance who are a Top 100 privately owned insurance broker based in Indianapolis and Phoenix. Jon shares with us his journey at MJ and describes how he went from a starting in a leadership position with little experience in broking to becoming the President and COO of the company an...

Season Two - Insurance Coffee House USA Kicking off the brand-new season of the "Insurance Coffee House USA", we are privileged to have Mark Holweger, CEO of Legal & General America joining us on this first episode of the show. Mark is a leading insurance executive in both P&C and Life, and he shares with us his leadership journey which is “all about making a difference." Resilience is the...

Joining us for our final episode of Season One, we have Charlotte Lach, a rising star of the insurance industry and Head of Global Multinational Strategy & Change at AIG. Charlotte shares with us how she has quickly risen from an underwriting role into a strategic position and advises of the benefits of a technical grounding when moving into operational and strategic functions. She reminds us...

Giorgio shares how to navigate a successful leadership career around one insurance company, having worked at Generali for an incredible 40 years, as man and boy. He advises that leading Generali Worldwide through its eventual sale to Utmost was one of the most challenging times as he balanced being honest and open with his staff and colleagues, whilst also getting the business into the best positi...

Joining us on the show this week is Brian Duffin OBE, former Chief Executive of Scottish Life. He is currently Chairman of the GEC Pension Scheme,the Aviva With Profits Committee, the Church of Scotland Investments Trust and he is also a NED for NFU Mutual as well as other insurance companies and pension funds. Brian discusses with Nick the achievement he is most proud of during his time as Chief...

In this episode we are joined by Willis Towers Watson's COO of Global Captive Practice and we explore the increasing opportunities in the Captive market for insurance business leaders. As the insurance market hardens, corporates across the world are seeking alternative mechanisms for managing their risk which has led to increased demand for captive creation. Sumit shares how this alternative mecha...

This week on the Insurance Coffee House, we are delighted to be joined by Darrell Sansom - Commercial Director for AXA Ireland. Darrell has enjoyed an expansive career as an insurance business leader, working in senior roles across the AXA group and he shares with us his secrets and insights into how we can lead teams and develop successful businesses. Darrell explains how networking and "never sa...