Insurance and reinsurance broker Lockton has announced the appointment of Troy Cook as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective September 24th.
As CFO, Cook will lead Lockton’s strategic finance function in alignment with the company’s growth plan, while reporting to Lockton’s Chairman, Ron Lockton.
Most recently, Cook served for over 20 years as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at NPC International before retiring in 2018.
He has more than 25 years of extensive financial and operational experience, and is experienced working with innovative business models, complex transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets.
“As we continue to build Lockton’s foundation for significant growth and expansion, I am excited to welcome Troy to Lockton’s leadership team,” said Lockton.
“Troy has an impressive track record of helping companies realize exponential growth. In addition to his financial skill set, Troy is an outstanding strategic operations executive as he exhibited as an independent Lockton board member since 2018. His growth mindset will help to accelerate Lockton’s path to $5 billion and beyond with a focus on perpetuating our private company status.”
Lockton CEO Peter Clune also commented: “Lockton continues to attract amazing people to our team. We have hand selected people that are the very best at what they do and share our beliefs and values. Troy is a world-class CFO and a great person.”
Cook added: “I am honored to be joining the high-quality leadership team assembled and led by Ron and Peter and the uniquely dedicated associates that make Lockton an extremely attractive employer and brokerage in the marketplace.”
“I am truly energized to play a role in helping to execute upon the tremendous growth opportunities that lay before Lockton and in driving stakeholder value by leveraging the inherent foundational benefits of Lockton’s independent private company platform.”
