Judging process
The judging process is rigorous and thorough to ensure that all the entries receive full consideration and that the true winners are chosen.
Judges will take part in a judging conference call, where the winners will be decided, where one expert per category will be asked to summarise the judges comments and provide any additional input as required. Judges have discretionary power to move submissions into alternative categories that they think may be more suitable. All judges are required to sign a disclaimer form to keep information about entries and the final winners confidential.
The judging panel
The judges are carefully selected for their wealth of experience and expertise, as well as their absence of conflicts of interest.
PLEASE NOTE: Judges do not judge any categories that their company has been entered in and are obliged to declare that they have no conflicts of interest prior to judging.
This year we have been joined by a host of expert judges. The judges have been divided into two groups - Captive Owner Judges and Captive Industry Judges
Captive Owner Judges
Courtney W. Claflin - Executive Director of Captive Programs for the University of California
Julie Bordo - President and General Manager of PCH
Heather McClure - Director of Operations OU Physician
Luke Figora - Assistant Vice President for Risk Management and Environmental Health and Safety at Northwestern University
Mary Ellen Moriarty - EIIA
Melissa D. Hollingsworth - Director of Risk Management and Insurance for Jelco Insurance Company, PCC
Michael T. Scott - Vice President, Insurance & Risk Management for Archer Daniels Midland Company
Andrew Baillie - Program Director, Global Insurance, AES Corporation
Mary C. Harrington - Director - Risk Management, Subaru of America
Cindy Belcher - Chief Operating Officer, Cooperative of American Physicians
Captive Industry Judges
Anne Marie Towle - Executive Vice President for JLT Insurance Management and is the U.S. Consulting Practice Leader
Ellen Charnley - Global sales leader and a Managing Director at Marsh USA
Gary Osborne - President of USA Risk Group
Jason Flaxbeard - Manages Beecher Carlson’s alternative risk operations within the US, Bermuda and Cayman Islands
Karin Landry- Managing Partner for Spring Consulting Group, LLC,
Martin Eveleigh - Chairman of Atlas Insurance Management
Robert “Skip” Myers - Co-Managing Partner of the Washington, D.C. office and Co-Chair of the Insurance and Reinsurance Practice
Nancy L. Gray - Regional Managing Director - Americas Aon Risk Solutions, Global Risk Consulting, Captive & Insurance Management
Sean B. Rider - Executive Vice President and Managing Director – Consulting and Development Willis Towers Watson Global Captive Practice
Thomas M. Jones - Partner at McDermott, Will & Emery
Dan Towle - President, CICA - Dan Towle will take over as president of CICA on 24 April and will join the Captive Industry Judging Panel in this capacity.
Bob Gagliardi - Head of Captive Management & US Fronting, AIG
Derick A White - President, Strategic Risk Solutions
