2010 Women in Insurance Leadership Forum
October 22, 2010 12:00 AM
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Liza Smith, VP Business Development and Marketing, Sapiens, and Christine Paris, VP, Assurant, enjoy conversation during a networking break.
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Lynn Neville, COO, Everest National, and Bill Sinn, Strategic Marketing Director, Pitney Bowes Business Insight, catch up during the awards reception.
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Heather Acerra, AVP with RLI Insurance Co., and Sharon Dean, Product Operations Director, at Allstate Insurance Co., share networking time.
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2010 Women in Insurance Leadership winners in attendanceSallie Graves, head of insurance and distributed services IT, ING U.S. Insurance; Angelyn Scardino Treutel, VP/treasurer, Treutel Insurance Agency; Pat Rayl, 2nd VP, technology services, Aflac; Sandra Parrillo, president and CEO, Providence Mutual Fire Insurance Co.; Susan Gueli, SVP and CIO, Nationwide Financial; and Dalia Dannenberg, fidelity & surety staff services manager, Capitol Insurance.
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Colleen Healy, General Manager of Financial Services at Microsoft, describes to Cindy Saccocia, Director, Microsoft, the challenges she faced while overseeing Microsofts largest M&A deals.
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Creating Your Personal Brand: Personal and Professional Development speaker Cathy Ellwood, Sr. Director, Corporate Development & Strategy at Nationwide, tells attendees why its important for career-minded employees to have their own personal board of directors.
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Susan Gueli, SVP and CIO, Nationwide Financial; Meghan Anzelc, Sr. Consultant, Travelers; and Shantha Murthy, Senior Project Manager, HCL America Inc., take time to talk about the importance of personal brand.
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Carrie Burns, editor, INN; Liza Smith, VP Business Development and Marketing, Sapiens; Leah Hollstegge, Manager, Ward Group; and Heather Peacock, SVP, Sales and Client Services, OneShield, catch up during a networking break.
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Preparing Gen Y to Lead panelists from Allstate: J'ai Batey Human Resource Consultant, Talent Acquisition; Laura Mottl, Sr. Actuarial Assistant, Product Pricing; Gina Minick Communication Consultant, Corporate Relations and Emily Foss Communication Consultant, Corporate Relations.
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Julie Parsons VP, Emerging Business, Allstate Insurance Co., led the panel of young female Allstate women during Preparing Gen Y to Lead.
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Mary Ellen Freyermuth, director of IS at Catholic Relief Insurance Co. of America, helped wrap up the conference by sharing her thoughts on how women can improve their standing as leaders in the insurance community.
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Darby ONeill, VP, Information Technology, Princeton Insurance Co., and 2009 Women in Insurance Leadership Notable Achiever, shared her some of her more memorable experiences in IT management.
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Joan Lamm-Tennant, chief economist and risk strategist for Guy Carpenter Co., delivered the keynote address, telling audience members that global economic ills will remain with the industry until it addresses certain issues critical to its success.
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Global View of Growth panelists Marie Carr, senior partner, Insurance Practice, Diamond Mgt. & Technology Consultants/PWC; Catherine Stagg-Macey, senior analyst, Celent; Wenli Yuan, senior analyst, Asia Research Group, Celent, and moderator Karen Furtado, partner, Strategy Meets Action discuss perspectives on insurers growth plans in Latin America, Europe and Asia.
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Creating a Seamless Linkage between Business & IT speaker, Lynn Neville, senior operations officer, Everest National Insurance Co., offered a personal narrative on how her organization developed a plan to create a clear, well defined and linked business and IT strategy.
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Creating a Seamless Linkage between Business & IT moderator, Deb Smallwood, founder of Strategy Meets Action, listens as panelist Lynn Neville describes the importance of communication across functional units as a way to garner business and IT buy-in.
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During the Creating Seamless Linkage between Business and IT session, attendees broke into groups to discuss how to create an effective business prioritization process.<