Business Insurance on Thursday named the 2023 winners of its annual Women to Watch awards program.
The program, which began in 2006, recognizes women leaders doing outstanding work in risk management and commercial insurance. From the beginning, the program has recognized winners working around the globe, and in 2017 the publication expanded the awards to include a separate program specifically for women executives in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Business Insurance readers nominated candidates for Women to Watch, and a panel of Business Insurance editors selected the honorees based on those nominations.
Below are this year’s 30 honorees for Women to Watch and 20 honorees for Women to Watch EMEA.
Profiles of the winners will appear in the December edition of Business Insurance. The awards will be presented during events in London on Nov. 7 and New York on Dec. 4-5.
Women to Watch
Joan Bauer, WKFC Underwriting Managers and CorRisk Underwriting Managers, units of RSG Underwriting Managers LLC
Laura Beckman, AmRisc Group, a unit of Truist Insurance Holdings Inc.
Jill Beggs, Everest Insurance, a unit of Everest Group Ltd.
Sharon Burger, IMA Inc.
Becky Carlson-Krzywonos, American International Group Inc.
Ania Caruso, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
April Chan, Insurance Office of America Inc.
Jordann Coleman, Heffernan Insurance Brokers
Rachel Cushing, Chubb Ltd.
Amber Finch, Reed Smith LLP
Cynthia Garcia, Bernards Brothers Inc.
Marcia Giesler, Sedgwick Claims Management Services Inc.
Diana Shafter Gliedman, Anderson Kill P.C.
Denise Gordon, Willis Towers Watson PLC
Kim Gore, Hub International Ltd
Jaime Henry, Origami Risk LLC
Melissa Hollingsworth, Atlanta Housing Authority
Jenna Kirkpatrick Howard, Lockton Cos. LLC
Jenise Klein, Allianz Commercial, a unit of Allianz SE
Elizabeth Kramer, Munich Re Specialty Insurance, a unit of Munich Reinsurance Co.
Lisa Leftwich, Zurich North America
Christine Loiselle, Hylant Group Inc.
Amanda Lyons, Aon PLC
Megan McClellan, Marsh LLC
Catherine Miller, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Co.
Courtney Ramirez, Alliant Insurance Services Inc.
Stephanie Snyder Frenier, CAC Specialty
Rachel Thuerk, Vicinity Energy
Belen Tokarski, Mylo LLC
Violet Xu, ReSource Pro LLC
Women to Watch EMEA
Sarah Breslin, Pen Underwriting Ltd., a unit of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
Andrea Brock, QBE Insurance Group Ltd.
Joanna Chardon, Akur8 SAS
Ana Dores, Axa XL, a unit of Axa SA
Gabrielle Durisch, Allianz Commercial, a unit of Allianz SE
Josianne El Antoury, Covington & Burling LLP
Andiara Nordang Fleischer, Crawford & Co.
Emily Fraser, RSA Insurance Group Ltd.
Roxanne Griffiths, American International Group Inc.
Julia Holm, Sedgwick Claims Management Services Inc.
Liliana Lapadatoni-Huluta, Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc.
Sophie Meiklejohn, Miller Insurance Services LLP
Kay McMenamin, Willis Towers Watson PLC
Karen Nordblom, SiriusPoint Ltd.
Crystal Png, Euclid Transactional, a division of Euclid Insurance Services Inc.
Penny Seach, Zurich Insurance Group Ltd.
Jacqueline Sinclair, CFC Underwriting Ltd.
Catherine Tillyard, McGill and Partners Ltd.
Meghan Walker, Liberty Specialty Markets, a unit of Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.
Hannah Witzel, FM Global
For more information on the London event, click here. For more information on the New York event, click here.