Insurer, Palomar Holdings has announced the promotion of Britt Morries to the role of Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately.
Morries will be succeeding Jon Christianson, who has been working under the role of Chief Underwriting Officer since 1st August 2020. He will continue to serve as Chief Technology Officer whilst the company initiates a search for his replacement.
His previous role was as Chief Technology Officer when he first joined the company in 2017.
Prior to joining the company, Morries served as Chief Technology Officer of Wellbeats, and previously, Morries served in senior management roles at John B. Collins Associates and Aon.
Mac Armstrong, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer commented: “Britt has been a driver of change and operational improvement since he joined Palomar as our Chief Technology Officer in 2017. He has built our technology team, platform, and infrastructure from the ground up, enabling Palomar to leverage technology to both scale and effectively service our policy holders.
“It is appropriate that Britt will remain actively focused on our technology until an appropriate candidate has been determined to succeed him in this capacity,” Armstrong continued.
“He brings a creative and dynamic mindset that will help drive us toward our strategic growth and expansion goals, as the spirit of innovation is core to Palomar’s success as a leading specialty property insurer. Britt will work with myself and the senior leadership team in his capacity supporting our growth initiatives.”
Morries added: “I am very excited to assume the Chief Operating Officer leadership role. At Palomar we have built our platform on digitizing business processes in an agile fashion and automation. It enables us to gain additional efficiencies and increase our processing bandwidth, whilst empowering us to accelerate our growth and expand product offering.”
“Further our technology allows us to continue to build services integrations with our partner companies, agencies and carriers. Integrating the Operations and Technology teams will provide even more synergy moving forward. I am eager to continue the journey with the exceptional team that we have here at Palomar.”
