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The 2025 Honors have concluded — partner with us for 2026!

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The 2025 Honors have concluded — partner with us for 2026!

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The 2025 winners have been announced!

Thank you to everyone who joined us on September 25 at 583 Park Avenue in New York for the Insurance Insider Honors!

Congratulations to all our finalists and winners! Your achievements and stories truly inspired us. We were proud to honor the teams driving change and excellence across the industry.

It was an incredible night celebrating the standout accomplishments and innovations shaping the (re)insurance sector over the past year.

Thank you for making it such a memorable celebration!

Want to amplify your presence at the event in 2026? Ask us about partnership opportunities.

2025 Winners

Winners
  • AI Implementation of the Year – new for 2025

    Winner:

    • Applied Aviation & Concirrus

    Shortlisted:

    • AlliBot
    • Carpe Data
    • Counterpart, Agentic Insurance Platform
    • CyberCube
    • Federato, Submission Triage
    • Fleming Insurance Holding
    • Simply Business, AI Insurance Advisor
  • (Re)Insurer of the Year | in partnership with Delos Insurance

    Winner:

    • SiriusPoint

    Shortlisted:

    • Admiral Insurance Group
    • Aspen
    • AXIS
    • IQUW
    • The Doctors Company
    • Topsail Re
  • Broking Rising Star of the Year | In partnership with Markel

    Winner:

    • Max Bernstein, CAC Specialty

    Shortlisted:

    • Joey Franiak, Burns & Wilcox
    • Mary Helen Lagarde, CAC Group
    • Adam Lowe, Brown & Riding
    • Matt Nguyen, RT Specialty
    • Kelsey Schippers, Burns & Wilcox
    • John Stanley, CAC Specialty
  • Campaign of the Year

    Winner:

    • Munich Re Specialty - North America, FAIR Plan Commercial Wrap

    Shortlisted:

    • Aon, Reinsurance Renewal Season campaign
    • FM, FM Rebrand
    • Munich Re Specialty - North America, FAIR Plan Commercial Wrap
    • Parametrix & Strategic Insurance Communication, CrowdStrike
  • Casualty Underwriting Team of the Year

    Winner:

    • Roosevelt Road Specialty, Tradesman Program Managers

    Shortlisted:

    • Fleming Insurance Holdings, FlemingRE
  • CEO of the Year for Broking

    Winner:

    • Tim Turner, CEO, Ryan Specialty
  • CEO of the Year for Underwriting

    Winner:

    • Vince Tizzio, President & CEO, AXIS
  • Claims Rising Star of the Year

    Winner:

    • Curtis Mahler, Markel

    Shortlisted:

    • Ryan Butcher, IQUW
    • Alexandra Cadario, FM
    • Dustin M. Courtney, Crawford & Company
    • April Gray, FM
    • Jami Haasl, Crawford & Company
    • Katelyn McNeilly, RiverStone
    • Nick Morales, Euclid Transactional
  • Distribution Innovation of the Year | In partnership with Beazley

    Winner:

    • Aon, Fac Facilities Team

    Shortlisted:

    • Functional Finance, Revolutionizing Insurance Finance
    • WOWS Insurance Services
  • E&S Underwriting Team of the Year

    Winner:

    • Beazley Safeguard

    Shortlisted:

    • Arris Property Underwriters, a DOXA Company
    • Everest Evolution, Property Team
    • Markel, Environmental and Energy Team
    • Origin Specialty, Hospitality Division
  • Employer of the Year

    Winner:

    • Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company

    Shortlisted:

    • Brown & Riding
    • Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete
    • INSTANDA
    • Markel
    • Skyward Specialty Insurance Group
    • The Zebra
  • Financial Advisory Firm of the Year

    Winner:

    • Merger & Acquisition Services

    Shortlisted:

    • The Laughton Company
  • Fronting Carrier Team of the Year

    Winner:

    • MS Transverse

    Shortlisted:

    • Everspan
  • Insurance Asset Management Firm of the Year | in partnership Roosevelt Road Specialty

    Winner:

    • Conning

    Shortlisted:

    • Altai Ventures
    • New England Asset Management
  • Legal Services Provider of the Year

    Winner:

    • Clifford Chance

    Shortlisted:

    • Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete
    • Eversheds Sutherland
    • Greenberg Traurig
    • Jones Jones
  • Lifetime Achievement | In partnership with RiverStone International

    Winner:

    • Bryan Sanders, Chairman, US Wholesale and Specialty at Markel
  • M&A Transaction of the Year

    Winner:

    • Ryan Specialty, Acquisition of Velocity Risk Partners by Ryan Specialty

    Shortlisted:

    • Ambac, Acquisition of Beat Capital Partners
    • Merger & Acquisition Services, Integrated Specialty Coverages acquires INF and HOP
    • RiverStone International, Acquisition of Electric Insurance Company
    • SageSure, Acquisition of GeoVera MGA
  • MGA/MGU of the Year

    Winner:

    • ARU

    Shortlisted:

    • Arden Insurance Services
    • CPH Insurance, A DOXA Company
    • Delos Insurance Solutions - the wildfire experts
    • Descartes Underwriting
    • K&B Specialty Insurance
    • SageSure
    • Tradesman Program Managers
    • Verve Services
  • Program Partnership of the Year

    Winner:

    • Markel, Programs and Brownyard MacLean Security Insurance Services

    Shortlisted:

    • Ryan Specialty, Irwin Siegel Agency & SiriusPoint
    • Safehub & Liberty Mutual Reinsurance, Parametric Earthquake Insurance
  • Progress Award – new for 2025

    Winner:

    • InsHER Podcast

    Shortlisted:

    • ACORD
    • Spencer Educational Foundation
    • The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation
    • UnRetire
  • Property Catastrophe Underwriting Team of the Year

    Winner:

    • SageSure

    Shortlisted:

    • Markel
  • Rating Agency of the Year

    Winner:

    • AM Best
  • Reinsurance Broker of the Year

    Winner:

    • Guy Carpenter

    Shortlisted:

    • Aon
    • Gallagher Re
    • Howden Re
  • Risk Modeling Firm of the Year

    Winner:

    • Karen Clark & Company

    Shortlisted:

    • Aon
    • CyberCube
    • Descartes Underwriting
  • Underwriting Innovation of the Year

    Winner:

    • Demex, Remaking the market for aggregate reinsurance of severe convective storm losses

    Highly commended:

    • Beazley, Full Spectrum Cyber

    Shortlisted:

    • Applied Aviation & Concirrus
    • CFC
    • kWh Analytics, kWh Analytics' Underwriting
    • Munich Re, Automated Underwriting Platform
    • Munich Re Specialty - North America, FAIR Plan Commercial Wrap
    • Resilience
    • Skyward Specialty Insurance, SkyVUE
  • Underwriting Rising Star of the Year

    Winner:

    • Bailey Noone, Munich Re Specialty - North America

    Shortlisted:

    • Paige Carey, CFC
    • Ilir Dinovic, SiriusPoint
    • James Gater, SiriusPoint
    • Noah Lucas, Markel
    • Courtney Peters, Munich Re Specialty - North America
    • Mary Rieck, FM
    • Kaitlin Schoch, Emerald Underwriting Managers
    • Paula Trinchera, Canopius
  • Wholesale Broker of the Year

    Winner:

    • Consilium

    Shortlisted:

    • Brown & Riding, Team Cea
    • National Coverage Corp
    • RT Specialty
  • Women in Insurance Award

    Winner:

    • InsHER Podcast

    Shortlisted:

    • CyberCube
    • K2 Insurance Services
    • Markel, The Markel Women's Network: Advocacy for Women, Empowering Change
    • Ryan Specialty, WOW! (Women. Opportunity. Winning.)
    • Simply Business
    • The Insurance People
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Judges (UK Honours)
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Albert Benchimol

Former President and CEO, AXIS Capital

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Allen Cashin

Executive Vice President & Head of Program Solutions, Gallagher Re

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Allen is located in Gallagher Re’s Dallas office, after spending eight years in New York at Willis Re. He focuses on regional Property and Casualty insurance, with a specialty on MGAs with unique and difficult classes, particularly for property in hurricane and tornado exposed territories.

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Bryan Sanders

Chairman, Markel Specialty

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Erik W. Matson

Chairman, BridgeHaven Europe Specialty Holdings, Ltd

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In his role, Erik Matson guides Bridgehaven, a company focused on the hybrid-fronting P&C Insurance segment. Under his leadership, the company made history as the first to receive regulatory approval from the PRA/FCA post-pandemic, focusing on reshaping the UK and EU markets with innovative fronting strategies.

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Fred E. Karlinsky

Chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Global Insurance Regulatory and Transactions Practice Group

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Fred Karlinsky is a Shareholder and Co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Global Insurance Regulatory and Transactions Practice Group. Fred has over 30 years of experience representing the interests of insurers, reinsurers, and a wide variety of other insurance-related entities.

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Greg Hendrick

Chief Executive Officer, Vantage Group

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Greg Hendrick is Chief Executive of Vantage Group, a Bermuda registered company that provides specialty re/insurance through its wholly owned subsidiaries.

Previously, he served as Chief Executive of AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA.

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Jiten Voralia

Senior Vice President, Head of North America Treaty, Everest Reinsurance

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Jiten Voralia is Senior Vice President, Head of North America Treaty for Everest Reinsurance. In this role, Jiten leads the division’s treaty reinsurance business across the United States, Bermuda and Canada. He joined Everest in 2022 as Senior Vice President and Head of Treaty Casualty & Surety where he successfully drove the portfolio’s strategic direction as well as the development and execution of its underwriting strategy.

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Lenika Milne

Chief Marketing Officer, One80 Intermediaries

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Lenika is Chief Marketing Officer for One80 Intermediaries and is responsible for articulating the company’s strategic vision, mission statement and value – and ultimately crafting the One80 Intermediaries brand and narrative.

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Liz Kramer

President of E&S, Munich Re Specialty, North America

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Liz Kramer is the President of E&S for Munich Re Specialty, North America, Munich Re’s primary specialty insurance operation. In this role, Kramer oversees excess and surplus lines products primarily focused on the wholesale space which include Primary and Excess Casualty, Property, Financial Lines, Healthcare, Surety and Mobility.s.

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Lou Ann Layton

Global Head of Distribution and Marketing, Beazley

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Louis De Segonzac

Chief Underwriting Officer, Americas, MS Reinsurance

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Louis joined MS Reinsurance in October 2014 as Head of Latin America and was promoted to Chief Underwriting Officer, Americas in 2021. Based in Miami, Louis is responsible for all of P&C treaty underwriting across US, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean markets.

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Marc J. Adee

Chief Executive Officer, Crum & Forster

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Marc Adee is the CEO of Crum & Forster, a leading specialty insurance carrier founded in 1822 and headquartered in Morristown, NJ.

Marc joined Fairfax in 2000 and held a number of leadership positions throughout the organization prior to taking on his current role in 2015.

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Michael McKenna

Head of North America, AXIS Capital

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Michael McKenna is Head of North America at AXIS where he oversees underwriting and business growth strategies for the North America Wholesale and Retail businesses. Prior to joining AXIS, Michael was the Chief Underwriting Officer for Falvey Insurance Group.

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Nick Schulson

President & CEO, RiverStone International Insurance Inc.

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Ryan Grimes

President RT National Casualty/ Regional EVP, RT Specialty

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Ryan Grimes serves as President of RT’s National Casualty Practice and is a Regional Director of RT Specialty. He also manages top carrier relationships for RT specialty with a focus on casualty and works with the senior management team on strategic initiatives. Ryan has been a part of RT Specialty’s leadership since 2020 when Ryan Specialty acquired All Risks Limited.

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