Insurance coverage dealer Acrisure has appointed Matthew Kirk as government vp and head of Insurance coverage Technique and Execution.
Kirk joins Acrisure following 16 years at The Hartford, the place he served as senior vp and chief officer, Gross sales & Distribution, for small business traces.
Kirk will deal with execution of Acrisure’s wider insurance policy, together with its synthetic intelligence-based expertise, managing normal company platform, worth chain compression and provider partnerships.
On this new management position, Kirk will be a part of Acrisure’s government management group and can report back to Grahame Millwater, president of International Insurance coverage.
Kirk joined The Hartford in 2006 as director of Authorities Affairs. In 2012, he joined Gross sales and Distribution for business markets.
Previous to his time with The Hartford, Kirk was deputy assistant to President George W. Bush within the White Home workplace of legislative affairs and labored within the workplace of U.S. Senator Don Nickles.
Hamilton Choose Insurance coverage Makes Senior Underwriting Appointments
Specialty insurer Hamilton Insurance coverage Group introduced the appointments of Devon Minarik as head of U.S. Small Enterprise Casualty Insurance coverage and Logan Kirkland as head of U.S. Merchandise Legal responsibility & Contractors Insurance coverage at Hamilton Choose Insurance coverage, its new extra and surplus traces insurer.
In these new roles, Minarik and Kirkland have duty for the event of their respective traces of enterprise.
Reporting to Hamilton Choose Insurance coverage CEO Clay Rhoades, Minarik and Kirkland are primarily based in Richmond, Virginia.
Minarik most just lately spent over a yr as vp at AmWINS Group, previous to which he spent over a decade with Burns & Wilcox in senior roles, finally serving as managing director for a number of years previous to his departure. Hamilton’s new U.S. small enterprise casualty division is concentrating on normal legal responsibility insurance coverage for a spread of contractors and premises pushed accounts and different normal legal responsibility exposures for small companies.
Previous to becoming a member of Hamilton, Kirkland was an underwriting specialist at James River Insurance coverage Co., dealing with massive, advanced, nationwide merchandise and building accounts. Earlier than that, he was a property underwriter and property/casualty dealer at Continental Underwriters. Kirkland’s new U.S. division is concentrated on a broad vary of hard-to-place manufacturing and building dangers.
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