NORMA CARABAJAL ESSARY Executive director and CEO Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas
As executive director of the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas [SLTX], Norma Essary has maintained a national presence on insurance and risk management matters with the creation of a new measure of program management for the E&S lines market in Texas and throughout the US. Essary regularly works with trade and industry associations, legislative staff, counsel and media platforms to promote an E&S system that supports the risk needs of consumers. Under her leadership, SLTX has successfully reestablished its presence and position in the industry and has become an information promoter and authority on various fronts. Essary’s career covers a number of specific insurance industries, including admitted versus non-admitted insurer market selections, construction (OCIP/ROCIP) claims management, self-funded health programs and onsite medical clinic services, safety/risk mitigation, litigation management, and more recently, compliance and regulatory oversight. Before joining SLTX, Essary spent more than a decade as VP of risk management for Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, the fourth busiest airport in the world. There, she oversaw strategic enterprise risk management and was responsible for managing a $3.5 billion construction-specific ROCIP, a self-funded WC program, a fully staffed on-site medical clinic and all other safety programs under the occupational health and safety umbrella. Essary has been named a Top Risk Management Professional by D CEO magazine and a Top Risk Manager by the Texas Public Risk & Insurance Management Association. She is also a recipient of a Women in Business Award from the Dallas Business Journal.
LAUREL DI SILVESTRO Senior product manager
DEBBIE MICHEL
CoreLogic
EVP and general manager, national insurance casualty unit
Drawing on 20 years of experience in risk management for the global property insurance industry, Laurel Di Silvestro combines in-depth knowledge of science and engineering with an expertise in account and product management for market-leading data products, cloud-based intelligence applications and Big Data analytical risk models. As a senior product manager at CoreLogic, Di Silvestro is responsible for managing a suite of CoreLogic probabilistic catastrophe risk management data and analytics products. Her work has directly impacted client profitability and successful compliance with US regulatory and European Solvency II reporting requirements. She has also been a market leader in communicating catastrophe risk management methodology and the effective use of modeling metrics to the industry.
Liberty Mutual Insurance Group
In 2015, Debbie Michel was appointed to her current role as EVP and general manager of Liberty Mutual’s national insurance casualty and middle-market divisions, responsible for the company’s nationwide large-account casualty and middle-market business. During the course of her 22-year career at Liberty Mutual, Michel has held leadership positions in a number of key underwriting, distribution, accounting, marketing and claims operations within the company’s commercial insurance strategic business unit. Most recently, she was president of Helmsman Management Services, which, under her leadership, grew to become the fifth largest multiline TPA in the country based on total gross revenue.
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