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ENCOVA INSURANCE APPOINTS MIKE KELLER TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Columbus, OH (6/12/20) — Encova Insurance has announced the appointment of Mike Keller to their board of directors, effective Aug. 18, 2020. Mike brings decades of executive leadership, technology and insurance expertise to their board based on his experience at Nationwide, Bank One and IBM. “Mike’s experience is unparalleled. He brings expertise and insight gleaned from leading high performing IT departments at three premier companies that will add to the strength of our board,” Board of Directors Executive Chairman Greg Burton said. “We are incredibly fortunate to welcome him to the company’s board of directors.” “Having led the IT department of a well-respected national insurance carrier before his recent retirement, Mike’s vision, strategic guidance and wisdom of integrating multiple systems will be invaluable as Encova continues its focus on technology and the resulting customer experience being created for our independent agency partners and policyholders,” Encova President and CEO TJ Obrokta Jr. said. “I am very excited to be joining the board of directors,” Mike Keller said. “Encova is a highly successful mutual insurance company with a talented board and leadership team, a deep commitment to their agents and policyholders, a focus on leveraging leading edge technologies, and strong midwestern values.” About Encova Insurance A super-regional carrier ranked in the top 20 mutual insurance companies in the United States, Encova includes more than 1,200 associates writing in the 28 states and the District of Columbia, premiums in excess of $1 billion, a surplus in excess of $1.6 billion and assets in excess of $4.1 billion. The group markets insurance solutions through more than 2,000 independent agencies in the Midwest, Northeast and South.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER FOR AMERICAN RISK MANAGEMENT RESOURCES NETWORK, LLC HOLDING AND BROKERAGE DIVISION Middleton, WI (7/7/20) — American Risk Management Resources Network, LLC (ARMR.Network) Brokerage division is pleased to announce Kari Dybdahl Kohal as the organization’s next president. Kari Dybdahl Kohal 26
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brings to the position a wealth of knowledge and an array of experience in business and environmental insurance industry, on a provincial, national, and global level. She has worked at ARMR.Network Brokerage for 13 years. She has taken on many responsibilities from clerical, to being their top broker, and more recently has been their Executive Vice President and Director of Operations for the past 4 years. Kari Dybdahl Kohal sees a tremendous amount of opportunity and a bright future in the environmental insurance brokerage space. ARMR Network Brokerage division will continue to be the thought innovator in the research and development of specialty environmental insurance solutions. Her vision has been to empower their client partners to challenge the way specialty insurance is purchased. She states, “as president our work to provide intimate customer service, high-quality advice, high-level negotiations, and engineered environmental insurance solutions never ends. We will continue to push the status quo, to create new programs, and incorporate more services to increase efficiency for our partners and for ARMR Brokerage.” Kari Dybdahl Kohal is succeeding David Dybdahl who has served as founder and president of ARMR Brokerage Division since 2000. Kari joined the ARMR.Network Brokerage division in 2007. She has been instrumental in its growth and adaption to the market place. David Dybdahl, will become CEO of ARMR Specialty Holdings and continue to serve as President of ARMR Expert Services and their Managing General Agency (SREU) as well as continue work closely with Kari Kohal and the senior management team. David Dybdahl, says he is pleased to have Kari Dybdahl Kohal as the next President of the ARMR.Network Brokerage Division. “Kari’s background, industry knowledge, accolades, coupled with her outstanding interpersonal, visionary, and communications skills, will ensure American Risk Management Resources Brokerage Division remains the globally recognized leader and trusted environmental insurance brokerage firm positioned to take on new opportunities”. About American Risk Management Resources Network, LLC ARMR Specialty Holdings is a specialty wholesale environmental insurance brokerage firm and Managing General Agency. ARMR Specialty Holdings is uniquely designed as an Environmental Risk Resource Group on a wholesale insurance brokerage platform and are specialists in environmental risk management including insurance. We enable our broker/agent production partners to compete effectively with the largest and most expensive in-house environmental resource groups in the insurance brokerage community. ARMR Brokerage offers exceptional expertise and experience in environmental insurance and risk management. Our well-qualified insurance brokers in their long careers have placed insurance on some of the most complex risks in the world, including developing the first Contractors Pollution Liability insurance policy in the world, insuring the containment operations from the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, and developing the first insurance wrap-ups for Superfund remediation contractors. As risk and insurance consultants, ARMR Expert Services
