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COVER STORY: HOT 100 TOM RILEY
MICHAEL J. O’CONNOR
President and COO ASSURED PARTNERS
CEO AON RISK SOLUTIONS
Tom Riley co-founded Assured Partners in 2011 and has acted as its president and COO ever since. Under his guidance, Assured Partners has become the fastest-growing independent insurance agency in the nation. In 2015, Riley guided the company through its acquisition by Apax Private Equity. Prior to co-founding Assured Partners, Riley spent more than 20 years with Brown & Brown, progressing from CFO to profit center leader to regional president. During that time, Riley organically grew and acquired companies with more than $350 million in revenue. His final position at Brown & Brown was as chief acquisition officer, during which he was involved in more than 100 acquisitions.
Michael O’Connor heads up Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management arm of Aon plc, a global giant in risk advice and insurance. Under O’Connor’s leadership, Aon Risk Solutions was recognized as the Captive Manager of the Year and the Employee Benefits Specialist of the Year in October 2014. Before joining Aon in 2008, O’Connor was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he served as a leader for the North American financial services practice and the North American insurance practice. He also serves on the boards of Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center and Museum of Contemporary Art.
HANK WATKINS President LLOYD’S NORTH AMERICA Hank Watkins heads up market development and operations at Lloyd’s North America. Under Watkins’ leadership, Lloyd’s has become the largest surplus lines insurer largest non-US-domiciled reinsurer in the US. Lloyd’s writes 38% of its global premium in the US – to the tune of $14.6 billion in 2014. Operating from nine offices, Watkins and his team work with syndicate underwriters, coverholders and Lloyd’s brokers to maintain and grow the market’s share of the specialty lines business that initiated the first relationships between London and North America more than 100 years ago. With more than 30 years of experience as an underwriter and broker at Chubb, Barney & Barney, Johnson & Higgins, Marsh and HRH, Watkins actively promotes the insurance industry to students and young professionals. Based in New York, he’s a member of the Board of Overseers at St. John’s University’s School of Risk Management and serves on the boards of the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s Northeast Division and the International Insurance Society.
J. PATRICK GALLAGHER JR. Chairman, president and CEO ARTHUR J. GALLAGHER & CO. As chairman, president and CEO of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., J. Patrick Gallagher Jr. leads a global team of more than 21,000 employees in 31 countries. The insurance broker and third-party claims administrator has grown substantially in recent years, fueled by robust M&A activity, new business production, and the sale of additional products and services to existing clients. In 2014, total revenues grew more than 45% to top $4.6 billion, and adjusted brokerage and risk management revenues grew 30% to nearly $3.6 billion. Gallagher completed 60 acquisitions in 2014 and another 29 in the first three quarters of 2015, expanding client-service capabilities and establishing robust operating platforms throughout the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, in addition to the US. In 2015, the company was recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as a World’s Most Ethical Company for the fourth consecutive year, and by Forbes magazine as one of America’s best employers.
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RICHARD GULLIVER President HUB INTERNATIONAL LIMITED Richard Gulliver has more than 35 years of experience in the insurance industry. As president of HUB International Limited, Gulliver oversees the company’s mergers and acquisitions; during his tenure, HUB has made more than 150 acquisitions, representing more than $1 billion in revenue. In January alone, Hub acquired the assets of three US insurance companies – RPG Solutions, Gathings Insurance Services and Cowan Benefit Services. Gulliver began his career in insurance in 1977, opening a small, one-man shop in Leamington, Ont., which still exists today as a HUB International operation. He also was instrumental in the creation of Network Solutions in 1995, and served as president of that organization. Gulliver played a key role in the creation of HUB International, and has been a critical force in its development and growth. “In the active pursuit of growth, we never lose sight of our moral mandate toward quality and fairness for our customers and employees,” he says.
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