Insurance Insider Honors
September 25, 2025 | 583 Park Avenue, NYC

Insurance Insider Honors
September 25, 2025 | 583 Park Avenue, NYC

The Insurance Insider US Honors finalists have been announced!
Congratulations to the standout individuals, teams, and companies raising the bar in our industry.
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Who will take home the gold? Find out soon..
2025 Shortlist
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Shortlisted:
- AlliBot
- Applied Aviation & Concirrus
- Carpe Data
- Counterpart, Agentic Insurance Platform
- CyberCube
- Federato, Submission Triage
- Fleming Insurance Holding
- Simply Business, AI Insurance Advisor
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Shortlisted:
- Admiral Insurance Group
- Aspen
- AXIS
- IQUW
- SiriusPoint
- The Doctors Company
- Topsail Re
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The winner of this category will be a longstanding leader of a major North American (re)insurer that has demonstrated success over many years. Previous winners of this title include Mark Cloutier, Kevin O’Donnell and Pat Ryan.
Entries are not accepted for this award; the winner is decided by the Insurance Insider US editorial team. -
Shortlisted:
- Max Bernstein, CAC Specialty
- 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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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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Shortlisted:
- Fleming Insurance Holdings, FlemingRE
- Roosevelt Road Specialty, Tradesman Program Managers
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Shortlisted:
- Ryan Butcher, IQUW
- Alexandra Cadario, FM
- Dustin M. Courtney, Crawford & Company
- April Gray, FM
- Jami Haasl, Crawford & Company
- Curtis Mahler, Markel
- Katelyn McNeilly, RiverStone
- Nick Morales, Euclid Transactional
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Shortlisted:
- Aon, Fac Facilities Team
- Functional Finance, Revolutionizing Insurance Finance
- WOWS Insurance Services
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Shortlisted:
- Arris Property Underwriters, a DOXA Company
- Beazley Safeguard
- Everest Evolution, Property Team
- Markel, Environmental and Energy Team
- Origin Specialty, Hospitality Division
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Shortlisted:
- Brown & Riding
- Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete
- INSTANDA
- Markel
- Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company
- Skyward Specialty Insurance Group
- The Zebra
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Shortlisted:
- Merger & Acquisition Services
- The Laughton Company
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Shortlisted:
- Everspan
- MS Transverse
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Shortlisted:
- Altai Ventures
- Conning
- New England Asset Management
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Shortlisted:
- Clifford Chance
- Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete
- Eversheds Sutherland
- Greenberg Traurig
- Jones Jones
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The editorial team have awarded this honour to a person who they believe has distinguished themselves whilst making the highest contribution to the industry over the course of their working life. The winner is an individual working in – or providing services to – the P&C markets through a career that has spanned at least 20 years.
This category is not eligible for entry and will be selected by the Insurance Insider US editorial team. -
Shortlisted:
- Ambac, Acquisition of Beat Capital Partners
- Merger & Acquisition Services, Integrated Specialty Coverages acquires INF and HOP
- RiverStone International, Project Echo
- Ryan Specialty, Acquisition of Velocity Risk Partners by Ryan Specialty
- SageSure, Acquisition of GeoVera MGA
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Shortlisted:
- Arden Insurance Services
- ARU
- 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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Shortlisted:
- Markel, Programs and Brownyard MacLean Security Insurance Services
- Ryan Specialty, Irwin Siegel Agency & SiriusPoint
- Safehub & Liberty Mutual Reinsurance, Parametric Earthquake Insurance
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Shortlisted:
- ACORD
- InsHER Podcast
- Spencer Educational Foundation
- The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation
- UnRetire
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Shortlisted:
- Markel
- SageSure
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Shortlisted:
- Aon
- Gallagher Re
- Guy Carpenter
- Howden Re
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Shortlisted:
- Aon
- CyberCube
- Descartes Underwriting
- Karen Clark & Company
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Shortlisted:
- Applied Aviation & Concirrus
- Beazley, Full Spectrum Cyber
- CFC
- Demex, Remaking the market for aggregate reinsurance of severe convective storm losses
- 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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Shortlisted:
- Paige Carey, CFC
- Ilir Dinovic, SiriusPoint
- James Gater, SiriusPoint
- Noah Lucas, Markel
- Bailey Noone, Munich Re Specialty - North America
- Courtney Peters, Munich Re Specialty - North America
- Mary Rieck, FM
- Kaitlin Schoch, Emerald Underwriting Managers
- Paula Trinchera, Canopius
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Shortlisted:
- Brown & Riding
- Consilium
- National Coverage Corp
- RT Specialty
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Shortlisted:
- CyberCube
- InsHER Podcast
- 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.