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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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