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

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

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
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Winner:
- Applied Aviation & Concirrus
Shortlisted:- AlliBot
- Carpe Data
- Counterpart, Agentic Insurance Platform
- CyberCube
- Federato, Submission Triage
- Fleming Insurance Holding
- Simply Business, AI Insurance Advisor
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Winner:
- SiriusPoint
Shortlisted:- Admiral Insurance Group
- Aspen
- AXIS
- IQUW
- The Doctors Company
- Topsail Re
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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
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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
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Winner:
- Roosevelt Road Specialty, Tradesman Program Managers
Shortlisted:- Fleming Insurance Holdings, FlemingRE
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Winner:
- Tim Turner, CEO, Ryan Specialty
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Winner:
- Vince Tizzio, President & CEO, AXIS
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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
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Winner:
- Aon, Fac Facilities Team
Shortlisted:- Functional Finance, Revolutionizing Insurance Finance
- WOWS Insurance Services
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Winner:
- Beazley Safeguard
Shortlisted:- Arris Property Underwriters, a DOXA Company
- Everest Evolution, Property Team
- Markel, Environmental and Energy Team
- Origin Specialty, Hospitality Division
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Winner:
- Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company
Shortlisted:- Brown & Riding
- Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete
- INSTANDA
- Markel
- Skyward Specialty Insurance Group
- The Zebra
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Winner:
- Merger & Acquisition Services
- The Laughton Company
- Merger & Acquisition Services
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Winner:
- MS Transverse
Shortlisted:- Everspan
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Winner:
- Conning
Shortlisted:- Altai Ventures
- New England Asset Management
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Winner:
- Clifford Chance
Shortlisted:- Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete
- Eversheds Sutherland
- Greenberg Traurig
- Jones Jones
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Winner:
- Bryan Sanders, Chairman, US Wholesale and Specialty at Markel
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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
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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
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Winner:
- Markel, Programs and Brownyard MacLean Security Insurance Services
Shortlisted:- Ryan Specialty, Irwin Siegel Agency & SiriusPoint
- Safehub & Liberty Mutual Reinsurance, Parametric Earthquake Insurance
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Winner:
- InsHER Podcast
Shortlisted:- ACORD
- Spencer Educational Foundation
- The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation
- UnRetire
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Winner:
- SageSure
Shortlisted:- Markel
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Winner:
- AM Best
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Winner:
- Guy Carpenter
Shortlisted:- Aon
- Gallagher Re
- Howden Re
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Winner:
- Karen Clark & Company
Shortlisted:- Aon
- CyberCube
- Descartes Underwriting
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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
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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
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Winner:
- Consilium
Shortlisted:- Brown & Riding, Team Cea
- National Coverage Corp
- RT Specialty
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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






















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.
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.

Fred E. Karlinsky
Chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Global Insurance Regulatory and Transactions Practice Group
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.