The Ticker

Bill Daly moves to COO at Beecher Carlson from CFO or retail at Beecher Carlson parent Brown & Brown. Daly has been member of Beecher Carlson’s executive committee for past 15 months working to advance key IT and efficiency initiatives across the Beecher Carlson platform. In his role as COO, Daly will oversee Bermuda wholesale, product groups, team resources, IT, insurance operations, and partnership agreements. 

New CAC Specialty unit, an insurance brokerage and investment banking platform for public and private companies and private equity sponsors, builds out team. David Payne, previously chief revenue officer at JLT, will be chief revenue officer. Bruce Denson Jr., president of Cobbs Allen, will serve as president of CAC also. Jack Leventhal, senior managing director and executive officer at Teneo Capital, will lead investment banking business. Leventhal and his team are part of Teneo’s Capital Advisory business, which will maintain a strategic relationship with the firm. Jason Horwitz joins as EVP of Special Situations Group. Andy Lennox joins as SVP of Complex Casualty. David McMahan, Adam Lantrip, Brian Hood, Jacalyn Kroupa, Jennifer Schaeffer, Rik Goyton, Gavin Shiels, Greg McCollister and Billy Kroupa join as SVPs. Vince Mutolo joins investment banking business as senior managing director and Michelle Lam joins as SVP there. Sasson Posner and Chris Jacks join from Cobbs Allen as consultants in the Structured Solutions Practice. The firm will have offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco and New York.

Hires David Lim as CEO of retail in Singapore and head of marine for Asia Pacific. He moves from Brit Global Specialty Singapore, where he was CEO.

Paul Smith hires as VP of carrier relations, based in greater NYC area. He was EVP for carrier relations at Willis Towers Watson. He will oversee quality control, data and analytics, and contract management. Will serve as central resource for global teams as well.

Forms strategic partnership with Mover’s Choice to become retail partner for its moving and storage program in California.

Kelsey Turnage joins as human resources generalist and privacy officer, a new, dedicate HR position. She will organize HR functions within the firm and oversee legal and legislative compliance. She moves from University of Arkansas Medical Sciences, where she was HR generalist.

RT Specialty (rtspecialty.com) promotes Todd Mannschreck to president of claims and chief claims officer, based in Kansas City.

Partners with Bunker to provide clients access to Bunker’s compliance platform and real-time certificates of insurance.

Mark Costin hired as SVP in new global aviation and space (re)insurance business. He joins from Marsh JLT Specialty, where he was CEO of aviation and aerospace division.

Hires Brad Kupfer as chief sales officer for employee benefits. He was previously a consultant at GBS, a Leavitt company.