Leadership

Successful Together

Stephen Ries
Stephen Ries
SVP, Senior Counsel & Head of Investor Relations
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  • 20+ years of insurance industry experience, with expertise in insurance holding company regulation; legal support of insurance operations; corporate governance and compliance; mergers and acquisitions; SEC compliance; and financing transactions
  • J.D., Delaware Law School – Widener University
  • B.A., Political Science, Villanova University
  • Licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania
Nicole Reilly
Nicole Reilly
SVP, Human Resources
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  • 22+ years of human resources and leadership experience in financial services, utilities and manufacturing
  • B.S., Psychology, Saint Joseph’s University
  • ACS, AINS, and AIS
  • Design Thinking (Harvard); Hogan Assessment; DiSC, MBTI, SDI, Profiles XT; Cornell HR & Law; and Lominger (Korn Ferry) Competency
Michael Loftus
Michael Loftus
SVP and Chief Audit Executive
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  • 35+ years of insurance internal audit experience, the last 28 as a CAE with four publicly traded insurance companies
  • B.S., Accounting, Villanova University
  • Past president and current member of the Board of Directors of the Insurance Internal Audit Group
  • CFSA, CPA, and FLMI
Alan Hirst
Alan Hirst
Chief Information Officer
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  • 20+ years of diversified experience in information technology in financial industries
  • B.S., Computer Science, Business Management, and Language, University of York, UK
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner: Microsoft Certified; Certified Chartered Institute of Bankers (Banking and Finance, London, UK); TIBCO ESB (Business Works and iProcess)
Thomas Gibbons
Thomas Gibbons
EVP and Chief Actuary
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  • 35+ years of leadership and actuarial experience in the insurance industry
  • B.S., Mathematics (Special Interest Computer Science), Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
  • Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries
David Elliott
David Elliott
SVP, Claims
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  • 34+ years of multi-line experience in the insurance industry (property, casualty, auto, professional, environmental, construction defect)
  • A.A.S. and B.A., Arts, Rowan College
  • AIC and SCLA
Bill Balderston
Bill Balderston
Chief Marketing Officer
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  • 17+ years of insurance experience in business development, distribution, marketing, brokerage, product management
  • Ohio Wesleyan University – Economics Management Endicott College – MBA
  • CPCU, RPLU, CIC
Thomas McGeehan
Thomas McGeehan
Chief Financial Officer
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  • 35+ years of experience in the insurance industry overseeing corporate and insurance accounting, finance, treasury, and tax
  • MTax, Villanova University
  • M.B.A., La Salle University
  • B.S., Business Administration, Temple University
Jay Brown
Jay Brown
Chief Executive Officer
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  • 50+ years of insurance industry experience
  • Served as a director on the board since December 2015
  • Prior tenures as a director, chairman, and chief executive officer of MBIA, Inc. (NYSE: MBI), chairman of the board of Safeco, chairman of the board of Talegen Holdings, Inc., chairman of Noblr, and president and chief executive officer of Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company
  • Degree in Statistics and Economics from Northern Illinois University FCAS and CPCU