SPECIAL REPORT
HOT 100 2020 DANIEL S. GLASER President and CEO MARSH & MCLENNAN COMPANIES
KAMILAH WILLIAMS-KEMP Vice president, new business department NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL
Kamilah Williams-Kemp has more than 20 years of experience spanning multiple dimensions of the insurance and financial services industry and currently serves as vice president of the new business department of Northwestern Mutual. Since joining Northwestern Mutual in 1999, Williams-Kemp has held various leadership roles and was appointed an executive officer in 2015. She has been recognized as an influential business leader in Black Enterprise and Savoy magazines, is a member of Northwestern Mutual’s global executive leadership council, and also serves as a mentor. Outside of Northwestern Mutual, Williams-Kemp sits on the board of the African American Leadership Alliance of Milwaukee and the local board for Rocketship, a national network of nonprofit charter schools focused on eliminating the achievement gap in elementary schools in underserved neighborhoods. “I’m honored to be recognized in Insurance Business America’s Hot 100,” she says. “Northwestern Mutual’s success hinges on bringing out the best in our people, and I’m committed to ensuring that outcome for the teams I lead and the clients we serve.”
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Dan Glaser started his career as a broker at Marsh & McLennan Companies in 1982. He returned to the company in 2007 as chairman and CEO, after holding several senior positions in commercial insurance and insurance brokerage in the US, Europe and the Middle East. In his current role, Glaser steers the firm’s 75,000 employees as they serve clients in more than 130 countries, generating annualized revenue approaching $17 billion. Outside of Marsh & McLennan, Glaser is the chair of the US Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance, the chair of the international advisory board for BritishAmerican Business, a member of the boards of trustees for The Institutes and Ohio Wesleyan University, and sits on the board for the Partnership for New York City and the advisory council for St. George’s Society of New York.
MIKE DAOUSSIS Head of program innovation NEWFRONT INSURANCE
CARLY NIX Underwriter, national specialty programs ALL RISKS
As 2013 graduate of the All Risks University program, Carly Nix has since developed into one of the company’s lead underwriters. Nix has delivered premium growth of more than 25% in each of her first five years in an underwriting role, while also developing successful relationships with retail agents. In addition, she has taken an increased role in training and developing less experienced underwriters. Responsible for underwriting and growing a book of fire suppression and alarm contractor business in all 50 states, including writing general liability, umbrella/ excess, auto and workers’ compensation coverages, Nix has twice been recognized as Underwriter of the Year – Runner Up at All Risks. She holds her CIC, AU and ASLI designations, and has also attended training seminars hosted by the National Fire Protection Association to further her knowledge and expertise in the classes of business she underwrites.
As head of program innovation at Newfront Insurance, Mike Daoussis leads efforts to build out exclusive and innovative insurance programs. Daoussis has more than 43 years of insurance industry experience; he most recently spent eight years as a VP at USI. He has helped administer the complex risk departments for real estate and construction clients at companies such as Willis Towers Watson, Lockton and Wells Fargo/USI. In addition to his US-based roles, Daoussis has worked as a reinsurance broker at Lloyd’s and other London-based insurers and reinsurers. In 2009, he invented a mechanism that provides a novation for insurance carriers, allowing them to accept an alternate method for financially challenged insureds.
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