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Insurance Insider Honors

September 25, 2025 | 583 Park Avenue, NYC

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Insurance Insider Honors

September 25, 2025 | 583 Park Avenue, NYC

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Celebrating (re)insurance excellence

The Insurance Insider US Honors finalists have been announced!

Congratulations to the standout individuals, teams, and companies raising the bar in our industry.

Now’s the time to book your table and join us on September 25 for an unforgettable night of celebration and connection.

Tables always sell out fast—contact us today and avoid missing out on a key milestone within the (re)insurance industry.

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

Let the countdown commence!

Who will take home the gold? Find out soon..

2025 Shortlist

Shortlist
  • AI Implementation of the Year – new for 2025

    Shortlisted:
    • AlliBot
    • Applied Aviation & Concirrus
    • Carpe Data
    • Counterpart, Agentic Insurance Platform
    • CyberCube
    • Federato, Submission Triage
    • Fleming Insurance Holding
    • Simply Business, AI Insurance Advisor
  • (Re)Insurer of the Year

    Shortlisted:
    • Admiral Insurance Group
    • Aspen
    • AXIS
    • IQUW
    • SiriusPoint
    • The Doctors Company
    • Topsail Re
  • (Re)Insurance CEO of the Year

    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.
  • Broking Rising Star of the Year | In partnership with Markel

    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
  • Campaign of the Year

    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

    Shortlisted:
    • Fleming Insurance Holdings, FlemingRE
    • Roosevelt Road Specialty, Tradesman Program Managers
  • Claims Rising Star of the Year

    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
  • Distribution Innovation of the Year | In partnership with Beazley

    Shortlisted:
    • Aon, Fac Facilities Team
    • Functional Finance, Revolutionizing Insurance Finance
    • WOWS Insurance Services
  • E&S Underwriting Team of the Year

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

    Shortlisted:
    • Brown & Riding
    • Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete
    • INSTANDA
    • Markel
    • Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company
    • Skyward Specialty Insurance Group
    • The Zebra
  • Financial Advisory Firm of the Year

    Shortlisted:
    • Merger & Acquisition Services
    • The Laughton Company
  • Fronting Carrier Team of the Year

    Shortlisted:
    • Everspan
    • MS Transverse
  • Insurance Asset Management Firm of the Year

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

    Shortlisted:
    • Clifford Chance
    • Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete
    • Eversheds Sutherland
    • Greenberg Traurig
    • Jones Jones
  • Lifetime Achievement

    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.
  • M&A Transaction of the Year

    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
  • MGA/MGU of the Year

    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
  • Program Partnership of the Year

    Shortlisted:
    • Markel, Programs and Brownyard MacLean Security Insurance Services
    • Ryan Specialty, Irwin Siegel Agency & SiriusPoint
    • Safehub & Liberty Mutual Reinsurance, Parametric Earthquake Insurance
  • Progress Award – new for 2025

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

    Shortlisted:
    • Markel
    • SageSure
  • Reinsurance Broker of the Year

    Shortlisted:
    • Aon
    • Gallagher Re
    • Guy Carpenter
    • Howden Re
  • Risk Modeling Firm of the Year

    Shortlisted:
    • Aon
    • CyberCube
    • Descartes Underwriting
    • Karen Clark & Company
  • Underwriting Innovation of the Year

    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
  • Underwriting Rising Star of the Year

    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
  • Wholesale Broker of the Year

    Shortlisted:
    • Brown & Riding
    • Consilium
    • National Coverage Corp
    • RT Specialty
  • Women in Insurance Award

    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
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Judges (UK Honours)
2025 Judging Panel
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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.

2024 Winners
2024 Winners
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Insurance CEO of the Year
Stephen Sills, Bowhead
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(Re)Insurer of the Year
Beazley
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Broking Rising Star of the Year | in sponsorship with Markel
Charles Fisher - CRC Group
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Campaign of the Year
Allianz Commercial & Earnest - Launching a Commercial Powerhouse
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Casualty Underwriting Team of the Year
Jencap
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Claims Rising Star of the Year
Rose Kenerson - Euclid Transactional
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Distribution Innovation of the Year
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Diversity & Inclusion Award
Everest - One Everest: Global DEI Strategy, Execution, and Initiatives
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E&S Underwriting Team of the Year
FloodFlash - Parametric Flood
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Employer of the Year
Ascot
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Financial Advisory Firm of the Year
Merger & Acquisition Services, Inc.
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Insurance Asset Management Firm of the Year
Conning
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InsurTech Product of the Year
The Demex Group
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Legal Services Provider of the Year
Greenberg Traurig
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Wholesale Broker of the Year
RT Specialty
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M&A Transaction of the Year
TIH
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MGA/MGU of the Year
Delos Insurance
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Property Catastrophe Underwriting Team of the Year
SageSure
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IMCA Insurance Marketing Award
Liberty Mutual’s Camp RISE
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Program Partnership of the Year
Midwestern Insurance Alliance, A K2 Insurance Services Brand & QBE
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Rating Agency of the Year
AM Best
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Reinsurance Broker of the Year
Guy Carpenter
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Retail Broker of the Year
Acrisure
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Risk Modeling Firm of the Year
Aon
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Underwriting Innovation of the Year
CFC - Transaction Liability Team
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Underwriting Rising Star of the Year
Kim Heessels - Euclid Transactional
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Wholesale Broker of the Year
RT Specialty
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Women in Insurance Award
Euclid Transactional
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