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Verisario Retires after 50 Years in the                 He received a B.B.A. in actuarial science, and risk
          Industry                                                management and insurance from the University of
                                                                  Wisconsin–Madison. He holds the FCAS (Fellow of the
                                                                  Casualty Actuarial Society), CERA (Chartered Enterprise
          Paul Verisario, CPIA, Founder & CEO of All-Security     Risk Analyst), and Associate in Reinsurance (ARe)
          Insurance Agency, retired April 1 after 50 years in the   designations. He served on the board of directors for Big
          industry and 36 years of operating All-Security.        Brothers/Big Sisters, Bubolz Nature Preserve, and the
                                                                  Wisconsin Injured Patients and Families Compensation
          Verisario has been extremely well known and highly      Fund.
          respected in the insurance industry for many years. He also
          served the IIA of IL as President, and was              Garth Wicinsky joined SECURA’s Human Resources
          a 2010 recipient of the prestigious Cartwright Award for   division in 1996 and was promoted to Vice President–
          meritorious service to the insurance industry.          Human Resources in 2002, responsible for talent
                                                                  management, compensation and benefits, learning and
          Verisario served as chairperson of numerous IIA of IL   development, facilities, purchasing, and distribution. With
          committees including Government Affairs, Budget &       his promotion to SVP and Chief Administrative Officer,
     people in the news
          Finance, Agent/Company Relations, and Industry Relations.   in addition to his HR leadership function, he oversees
          He received the 1992 Chairperson of the Year Award for   Marketing, Research & Development, and Agency
          the Government Affairs Committee, the 1994 Regional     Training.
          Director of the Year Award, and the 1997 Local Board of
          the Year Award. He also served as president             Wicinsky earned a bachelor’s degree in business
          of the Certified Professional Insurance Agents Society   administration from the University of Wisconsin - La
          from 1999-2000, and is past president of the Northwest   Crosse and an M.B.A. from the University of Wisconsin
          Suburban Insurance Agents Association Local Board.      - Oshkosh. He serves on the board of directors at Verve
                                                                  Credit Union and the Chancellor’s advisory board at the
          Verisario, and his wife Kathy, started All-Security from   University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh.
          their Park Ridge home in 1981 and moved the office to
          Des Plaines a few years later. They worked together in
          the agency until Kathy’s retirement in 2015. In 2014 All-
          Security merged with Acrisure LLC and moved the office   New Senior Vice President at Columbia
          to Naperville. Today All-Security is part of the seventh
          largest privately held insurance brokerage in the United   Insurance Group
          States. Verisario’s son, Keith, who has been in the agency
          since 1999, now oversees the Naperville operation which   Columbia Insurance Group (Columbia) congratulates
          employs 53 insurance professionals.                     Gina Gervino on her promotion to Senior Vice President.
                                                                  Gervino also continues in her role as the company’s
          The Verisario’s reside in Inverness. They look forward   General Counsel and Secretary.
          to spending time with their family, especially their five
          grandchildren.                                          Columbia has five branch locations: Atlanta, GA; Austin,
                                                                  TX; Columbia, MO (Home Office); Omaha, NE; Salina, KS.
                                                                  Gina is located in the Home Office.

          SECURA Insurance Executives Earn
          Promotions                                              Weiss Named Esser Hayes President

          SECURA Insurance recently promoted two executive
          leaders in its organization: Marty Arnold to Senior     Esser Hayes Insurance Group is pleased to announce the
          Vice President & Chief Underwriting Officer and Garth   appointment of Howard A. Weiss as the fifth president
          Wicinsky to Senior Vice President & Chief Administrative   in the firm’s history. Weiss has more than 20 years
          Officer.                                                of management experience in commercial property
                                                                  & casualty operations as well as sales and strategic
          Arnold joined SECURA in 2000 as Chief Actuary and       development. William H. Hayes, who has served as
          added the role of reinsurance buyer in 2003. He was     president of the company since 2007, will assume the role
          promoted to Vice President & Chief Actuary in 2005 and   of CEO.
          assumed direction for Research & Development in 2007. In
          September 2013, he was appointed Senior Vice President   Previously, Howard served as Executive Vice-President of
          - Underwriting, directing the company’s Commercial,     Commercial Insurance where he was responsible for all
          Personal, Farm-Ag, and Specialty underwriting divisions,   commercial property and casualty operations as well as
          as well as Reinsurance and Risk Management. As SVP      leading the sales and recruiting initiatives throughout the
          and Chief Underwriting Officer, Arnold assumes these    whole firm including the Private Client Auto & Home and
          same responsibilities. Prior to SECURA, he worked for the   Employee Benefits Consulting departments.
          St. Paul Companies, where he was Director of Corporate
          Planning and Development and served in a variety of
          actuarial roles.





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