Principal EVP
Chief Underwriting Officer
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Jim is a Principal and co-founder of Euclid Public Sector Alternative Risk. He has thirty-five years of experience in the insurance industry with a roster of national companies. His underwriting training began as a package and workers compensation underwriter with the former Continental Insurance Company in Chicago.
Focusing his underwriting career over the twenty-five last years with public sector specialists such as Coregis, KEMPES, Munich Re America, Argonaut and Allied Public Risk, Jim negotiated and executed both first dollar and self-insured retention single and group (pool) risk accounts. Along with new business development, Jim’s strengths include a strong knowledge of sophisticated loss-sensitive pricing and exposure rating models, setting self-insured retentions, annual aggregate deductibles, and stop-loss aggregates.
Jim joined Euclid Public Sector Alternative Risk in 2015. In his current position, he is developing national production sources with the goal of building a book of individual self-insured retention accounts and statewide/national pools.
Jim obtained his BFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has also earned his CPCU designation.
Principal SVP
Deputy Chief Underwriting Officer
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Chris began his career with Liberty Mutual out of Columbus, OH. Over the last thirteen years, he grasped an extensive knowledge of reinsurance, pooling, and self-insured business. During that time, Chris has worked with several different super regional and national carriers with a heavy focus on public entity and non-profit sectors. Chris became a principal owner in 2022 of Euclid Public Sector.
Chris obtained his bachelor’s degree in Economics from Ohio University in Athens, OH. He holds his CPCU, AIC, and AU-M designations and is currently working with the Tony Robbins Foundation in their executive leadership program.
Assistant Vice President
Primary Practice Leader
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Kathy underwrites our professional liability products. She currently lives in North Riverside, IL with her husband and three beautiful children and is the 2014 winner of Euclid’s PGC Award.
I began my career as a producer with Huntington Bank’s Insurance Agency in their Columbus, OH office. I took my first underwriting position 4 years later at a super-regional carrier and have held various positions of progressive responsibility since then including field management roles in Southwestern Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana. I currently hold a CPCU and AIC designation and am working toward completion of an AIDA. I hold bachelor’s degrees in Communications and American History from Muskingum University in New Concord, OH.