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GuideOne Insurance appoints Wei Huang to its Board of Directors
9th January 2025
GuideOne Insurance, a provider of property and casualty insurance and risk management solutions, has announced the appointment of Wei Huang to its Board of Directors. Huang brings over 20 years of experience in public and private equity investment management, with expertise in managing complex investment portfolios across various asset classes. He currently ... Read the full article
GuideOne Insurance appoints Travis Sheets as SVP & General Counsel
12th August 2024
GuideOne Insurance Company, a provider of property and casualty insurance and risk management solutions, has announced the appointment of Travis Sheets as Senior Vice President (SVP) and General Counsel. GuideOne outlined that in his new role, “Sheets will be responsible for corporate strategic and tactical legal initiatives, overseeing a broad range ... Read the full article
GuideOne Insurance promotes Troy Spoonemore to Chief Underwriting & Risk Officer
25th July 2024
GuideOne Insurance Company, a provider of property and casualty insurance and risk management solutions, has promoted Troy Spoonemore to the position of Chief Underwriting & Risk Officer. In his new role, Spoonemore will direct GuideOne’s underwriting efforts, ensure strategic alignment with the company’s vision and goals, and oversee the risk management ... Read the full article
AM Best places GuideOne’s ratings under review with negative implications
17th July 2023
AM Best has placed under review with negative implications the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings of “a-” (Excellent) of GuideOne Insurance Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries. According to AM Best, these ratings have been placed under review with negative implications given its concerns ... Read the full article
GuideOne promotes Knutson to SVP of alternative distribution & reinsurance
13th April 2023
GuideOne Insurance, a provider of property and liability insurance and risk management solutions, has promoted Paul Knutson to the leadership team as Senior Vice President of alternative distribution and reinsurance. The company has confirmed that Knutson will immediately assume his new role, with Vice President, E&S Casualty Jude DiBattista, and VP, ... Read the full article
Argo Group appoints GuideOne CEO Jessica Snyder as new president of US insurance
16th August 2022
Argo Group has appointed former Guide One CEO Jessica Snyder to be its president of US insurance. Snyder will begin in her new role immediately and is set to report to Tom Bradley, executive chairman and chief executive officer of the firm. She joins from GuideOne, where she was president and ... Read the full article
GuideOne appoints Bernard Hengesbaugh as CEO
16th June 2022
Bernard Hengesbaugh has been named Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GuideOne Insurance Company (GuideOne), a niche-market insurer that specialises in church insurance in the US. Hengesbaugh is an industry veteran and has served in multiple leadership roles at CNA Insurance. He takes over for Andy Noga, who served as interim CEO for ... Read the full article
GuideOne names Patrick Daley as SVP and CUO
4th February 2022
GuideOne Insurance has appointed Patrick Daley as senior vice president and chief underwriting officer, where he will be responsible for niche product management, home office underwriting, underwriting compliance and business systems. Daley most recently, he served as head of large property field operations at The Hartford, where he led the commercial ... Read the full article
GuideOne adds Michael Hughes to board of directors
7th September 2021
GuideOne Insurance has elected Michael Hughes to the boards of GuideOne Mutual Holding Company and GuideOne Insurance Group. Hughes brings over 30 years of experience as an insurance leader in a variety of underwriting and executive roles. After 29 years at The Hartford, Hughes joined Safeco as head of underwriting for commercial ... Read the full article
GuideOne National makes two senior property hires
25th May 2021
GuideOne National, a specialty insurance subsidiary of GuideOne Mutual Insurance Company, has announced the appointments of Nick Batten as Vice President of Specialty Property, and Joseph Simeoni as Lead Property Underwriter, effective immediately. Batten joins GuideOne National from FM Global, where he most recently served as Vice President, Manager Global Services ... Read the full article
GuideOne hires senior positions
28th August 2020
GuideOne National has announced the appointment of Nigel Spain to the position of Head of Global Technical Property, as well as Randy Thompson’s appointment to Senior Risk Engineer. Both positions will take place effective immediately. In his new role, Spain will be responsible for leading the commercial property team in the wholesale ... Read the full article
GuideOne National joins the Whitespace Platform
27th May 2020
GuideOne National, a specialty insurance subsidiary of GuideOne Mutual Insurance Company, has taken steps to strengthen its London market connections by joining the Whitespace Platform. The Whitespace Platform provides brokers and underwriters with the ability to digitally offer, negotiate, place, and bind insurance and reinsurance contracts with each other. By joining the ... Read the full article
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