The Surety & Fidelity Association of America elected their
2013-2014 board members and Larry Taylor, President of Merchants Bonding
Company, was once again voted to be part of the Executive Committee.
MAY 28, 2013, WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Surety & Fidelity
Association of America (SFAA) elected Timothy Mikolajewski, President,
Liberty Mutual Surety, as Chair of the Board for 2013-2014. This will be
his second year as Chair. Mr. Mikolajewski has been in the surety
business since 1984 when he started his career with Safeco where he held
various contract surety underwriting and management positions in Ohio,
California, and Washington. He was the Chief Bonding Officer for Safeco
when Liberty Mutual acquired Safeco.
Stephen Haney was elected
as Vice Chair of the Board. Mr. Haney is Division President, Surety, for
ACE USA, the retail-focused division of the ACE Group, and Chief
Underwriting Officer, Global Surety, the ACE Group. With more than 20
years in the insurance arena, Mr. Haney joined ACE USA in 1998. He
previously held various regional underwriting, sales and marketing
positions with The Chubb Group, Surety Division, in its Philadelphia
office, and with Cologne Re in Germany and Leon Levy & Associates in
Philadelphia.
Also elected to the SFAA Executive Committee were
Ross Fisher, Vice President & General Manager, The Hartford
Construction Group & Bond; Larry Taylor, President, Merchants
Bonding Company Group; John S. Welch, President, CNA Surety; and Thomas
M. Kunkel, President & CEO, Bond and Financial Products, The
Travelers Companies, Past Chair, Ex Officio.
In addition to those
companies, SFAA members elected to serve on the Board were: AIG
Property Casualty represented by Rosemarie Bonelli, President of Global
Surety; Chubb Group of Insurance Companies represented by Rick Ciullo,
Chief Operating Officer, Chubb Surety; Great American Insurance
Companies represented by Gary Dunbar, President, Bond Division; Hanover
Insurance Companies represented by Robert Thomas, President, Hanover
Surety; Insco Dico Group represented by Harry Crowell, Chairman; The
Main Street America Group represented by Brian Beggs, Vice President –
Head of Bonds; Old Republic Surety Group represented by Alan Pavlic,
President/Chief Operating Officer; SureTec Insurance Company represented
by John Knox, Jr., Chairman and CEO; Westfield Insurance, represented
by Dennis Baus, National Surety Leader; W. R. Berkley Corporation Group
represented by Andrew Tuma, President, Berkley Surety Group; and Zurich
Surety represented by Michael Bond, Executive Vice President & Head
of Surety. Arch Reinsurance Company, represented by William Cameron,
Director - Surety, also was elected as the reinsurance representative on
the Board.
Lynn M. Schubert was re-elected as SFAA President.
The
Surety & Fidelity Association of America (SFAA) is a trade
association of more than 450 insurance companies that write the vast
majority of surety and fidelity bonds in the U.S., is a licensed rating
or advisory organization in all states, including the District of
Columbia and Puerto Rico, and is the designated by state insurance
departments as a statistical agent for the reporting of surety and
fidelity insurance.