University of Houston Downtown College of Business INSURANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT CENTER Spring 2014 AGENCIES Tim Brady, Vice Chair Chairman Brady Chapman Holland Gordy Bunch President & CEO The Woodlands Financial Group Kyle Dean President & CEO * Dean & Draper Insurance Agency David de Roode, Partner Lockton Companies Anthony Gruppo Regional CEO-SW Hub Marsh & McLennan Agency * Bob Holloway Senior Vice President * USI Southwest Ken Hotchkiss Partner/Producer * Hotchkiss Insurance Agency Jared Moore Exclusive Agent-Allstate Moore Insurance and Financial Services Amanda J. Mount Account Executive-National Healthcare Practice McGriff, Siebels & Williams Allen Wilson Senior Vice President * GEM Insurance Agencies WHOLESALERS Susan Howie VP—Human Resources HCC Insurance Holdings Scott Kilpatrick Business Development Director * Kilpatrick Companies, Ltd. Amy Leicht Area President * RPS - Leicht General Agency * Vikki Robinson Managing Partner R. T. Specialty Fred Steves Chairman * Myron Steves & Company Randy L. Doss Property Broker * CRC Insurance Services, Inc. ASSOCIATIONS Renee Stager Director of Education * Independent Insurance Agents of Houston * Founding Donor A UHD IRM Alumni CARRIERS Sharon Blake Branch Vice President–Houston * The Hartford Cindy Coleman Vice President Business Development Houston Region * AIG - Chartis Tom Fitzpatrick Senior Vice President Branch Manager * Chubb Group of Insurance Companies Mary Jane Fortin Executive VP & CFO * AIG Life & Retirement Pam Humphrey Senior Vice President ACE USA John Knox Chairman and CEO * SureTec Insurance Company Gerald Ladner Regional President State Auto A Scott Long Area Sales Manager TransAmerica Employee Benefits Matthew Sasso, Chair Houston-Austin Branch Vice- President CNA Insurance RISK MANAGERS Wayne Dauterive Director of Risk Management Metro National Corporation Ginny Penzell Risk Manager Memorial Resource Development Russ Taylor Owner Risk Management Tactix CONSULTANTS * Fred de Roode Chairman and CEO PPCLOAN Mike Geeslin Principal Summit Strategy & Initiatives Laura S. Hill President-Search Consultant The Hill Group Paul Z. Martin President PZM Education Strategies Irving Pozmantier President * PozmantierWilliams Insurance Consultants ADVISORY COUNCIL For more informaon about the program go to: hp://www.uhd.edu/irm, or contact Dr. Wen- dall Braniff at 713-226-5552 or braniff[email protected]. For admissions informaon go to: hp://www.uhd.edu/admissions . Dr. Wendall Braniff was recently invited to write a history of the UHD IRM program for the American Risk and Insurance Associaon (ARIA), the premier academic organizaon devot- ed to the study and promoon of knowledge about risk man- agement and insurance. A version of the arcle is reprinted here: In the late 1970s, the Texas insurance industry found itself with a diminishing workforce in an expanding industry. A group of forward-thinking independent agents headed by Forrest Pearson of Austin, Dick Swantner of Corpus Christi, and Tom Braniff of Houston joined forces with the Houston-based Wortham Foundation determined to create a solution. Wortham Foundation Chairman Fred Burns and Buddy Carruth, President of John L. Wortham & Son Insurance Agency, worked with the independent insurance agents group to create and fund the Texas Insurance Education Foundation. The Independent Insurance Agents chapters of Houston, Dallas, Austin, Amarillo, Lubbock and Tarrant County, as well as independent agents from those and other cities and areas of the state contributed. The foundation’s first official action was to endow the Gus Wortham Me- morial Chair in Risk Management and Insurance at the state’s flagship Tier I Universi- ty of Texas at Austin (UT) in 1983. The chair was named in honor of Gus S. Wortham, founder of two premier insurance entities. Along with his father, John L. Wortham, Gus started the John L. Wortham & Son Insurance agency. More recognizably outside the state, and along with Jesse Jones, James Elkins, and John Link, Gus founded Amer- ican General Insurance Company, one of the largest insurance companies in the nation. By establishing this chair they recognized the roots of a Texas insurance giant and sol- idly began building to create a sustainable and innovative future. The UT program recently had received the Joseph H. Blades Centennial Memorial Pro- fessorship in Insurance, honoring the Houston founder of one of the nation’s largest energy and marine insurance brokers and wholesalers and an innovative leader in bringing Lloyds of London insurance coverages to Texas business markets. The pro- gram taught risk management and insurance to finance majors. However, in 1997, the Texas Legislature enacted a law guaranteeing freshmen admission to UT applicants graduating in the top 10% of their high school classes. This affected UT’s recruitment and enrollment of students into niche programs, including its insurance and risk man- agement program. In 2007, three decades after the initiative began, and with an industry in greater need of a dependable pipeline of new industry recruits, independent agent and University of Houston Downtown graduate David de Roode assembled another group of independent agents and affiliates. They included Bob Dean, Tom Braniff, Dennis Baker, Fred de Roode, Tom Fitzpatrick, Bob Holloway, Doug Hotchkiss, Sean Kenny, Scott Kilpat- rick, John Knox, Jeff Lange, Marshall Leicht, Irving Pozmantier, Vikki Robinson, Matt Sasso, Ed Schreiber, Fred Steves and others. These industry professionals sought a new venue to educate future insurance professionals for Texas. They were attracted to the University of Houston Downtown for three reasons: its students, its location, and its College of Business dean. UHD’s 14,000 ethnically and culturally diverse students average 29 years of age with almost a decade of work experience. Seventy percent are the first in their families to earn a college degree, 75% are married, and 70% work fulltime. In general, UHD’s business students are self-motivated and mature young adults focused on their pursuit of career-related education and opportunities. Many seek to trade their current jobs for continued, page 2 DIRECTOR’S REPORT Michael Fields Wendall Braniff Dean Director College of Business Insurance & Risk Management Center Wendall Braniff, JD
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University of Houston Downtown
College of Business INSURANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT CENTER
Spring 2014
AGENCIES Tim Brady, Vice Chair Chairman Brady Chapman Holland Gordy Bunch President & CEO The Woodlands Financial Group Kyle Dean President & CEO * Dean & Draper Insurance
Agency David de Roode, Partner Lockton Companies Anthony Gruppo Regional CEO-SW Hub Marsh & McLennan Agency * Bob Holloway Senior Vice President * USI Southwest Ken Hotchkiss Partner/Producer * Hotchkiss Insurance Agency
Jared Moore Exclusive Agent-Allstate Moore Insurance and Financial
Services Amanda J. Mount Account Executive-National
Healthcare Practice McGriff, Siebels & Williams Allen Wilson Senior Vice President * GEM Insurance Agencies WHOLESALERS Susan Howie VP—Human Resources HCC Insurance Holdings Scott Kilpatrick Business Development Director * Kilpatrick Companies, Ltd. Amy Leicht Area President * RPS - Leicht General Agency * Vikki Robinson Managing Partner R. T. Specialty Fred Steves Chairman * Myron Steves & Company Randy L. Doss Property Broker * CRC Insurance Services, Inc. ASSOCIATIONS Renee Stager Director of Education * Independent Insurance Agents of
Houston
* Founding Donor A UHD IRM Alumni
CARRIERS Sharon Blake Branch Vice President–Houston * The Hartford Cindy Coleman Vice President Business Development Houston Region * AIG - Chartis Tom Fitzpatrick Senior Vice President Branch
Manager * Chubb Group of Insurance
Companies Mary Jane Fortin Executive VP & CFO * AIG Life & Retirement Pam Humphrey Senior Vice President ACE USA John Knox Chairman and CEO * SureTec Insurance Company Gerald Ladner Regional President State Auto A Scott Long Area Sales Manager
TransAmerica Employee Benefits Matthew Sasso, Chair Houston-Austin Branch Vice-
President CNA Insurance RISK MANAGERS Wayne Dauterive Director of Risk Management Metro National Corporation Ginny Penzell Risk Manager Memorial Resource Development Russ Taylor Owner Risk Management Tactix CONSULTANTS * Fred de Roode Chairman and CEO PPCLOAN Mike Geeslin Principal Summit Strategy & Initiatives Laura S. Hill President-Search Consultant The Hill Group Paul Z. Martin President PZM Education Strategies Irving Pozmantier President
* PozmantierWilliams Insurance
Consultants
ADVISORY COUNCIL
For more information about the program go to: http://www.uhd.edu/irm, or contact Dr. Wen-dall Braniff at 713-226-5552 or [email protected]. For admissions information go to: http://www.uhd.edu/admissions .
Dr. Wendall Braniff was recently invited to write a history of the UHD IRM program for the American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA), the premier academic organization devot-ed to the study and promotion of knowledge about risk man-agement and insurance. A version of the article is reprinted here: In the late 1970s, the Texas insurance industry found itself
with a diminishing workforce in an expanding industry. A
group of forward-thinking independent agents headed by Forrest Pearson of Austin,
Dick Swantner of Corpus Christi, and Tom Braniff of Houston joined forces with the
Houston-based Wortham Foundation determined to create a solution.
Wortham Foundation Chairman Fred Burns and Buddy Carruth, President of John L.
Wortham & Son Insurance Agency, worked with the independent insurance agents
group to create and fund the Texas Insurance Education Foundation. The Independent
Insurance Agents chapters of Houston, Dallas, Austin, Amarillo, Lubbock and Tarrant
County, as well as independent agents from those and other cities and areas of the state
contributed. The foundation’s first official action was to endow the Gus Wortham Me-
morial Chair in Risk Management and Insurance at the state’s flagship Tier I Universi-
ty of Texas at Austin (UT) in 1983. The chair was named in honor of Gus S. Wortham,
founder of two premier insurance entities. Along with his father, John L. Wortham,
Gus started the John L. Wortham & Son Insurance agency. More recognizably outside
the state, and along with Jesse Jones, James Elkins, and John Link, Gus founded Amer-
ican General Insurance Company, one of the largest insurance companies in the nation.
By establishing this chair they recognized the roots of a Texas insurance giant and sol-
idly began building to create a sustainable and innovative future.
The UT program recently had received the Joseph H. Blades Centennial Memorial Pro-
fessorship in Insurance, honoring the Houston founder of one of the nation’s largest
energy and marine insurance brokers and wholesalers and an innovative leader in
bringing Lloyds of London insurance coverages to Texas business markets. The pro-
gram taught risk management and insurance to finance majors. However, in 1997, the
Texas Legislature enacted a law guaranteeing freshmen admission to UT applicants
graduating in the top 10% of their high school classes. This affected UT’s recruitment
and enrollment of students into niche programs, including its insurance and risk man-
agement program.
In 2007, three decades after the initiative began, and with an industry in greater need of
a dependable pipeline of new industry recruits, independent agent and University of
Houston Downtown graduate David de Roode assembled another group of independent
agents and affiliates. They included Bob Dean, Tom Braniff, Dennis Baker, Fred de
Roode, Tom Fitzpatrick, Bob Holloway, Doug Hotchkiss, Sean Kenny, Scott Kilpat-
rick, John Knox, Jeff Lange, Marshall Leicht, Irving Pozmantier, Vikki Robinson, Matt
Sasso, Ed Schreiber, Fred Steves and others. These industry professionals sought a new
venue to educate future insurance professionals for Texas. They were attracted to the
University of Houston Downtown for three reasons: its students, its location, and its
College of Business dean.
UHD’s 14,000 ethnically and culturally diverse students average 29 years of age with
almost a decade of work experience. Seventy percent are the first in their families to
earn a college degree, 75% are married, and 70% work fulltime. In general, UHD’s
business students are self-motivated and mature young adults focused on their pursuit
of career-related education and opportunities. Many seek to trade their current jobs for
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DIRECTOR’S REPORT
Michael Fields Wendall Braniff Dean Director
College of Business Insurance & Risk Management Center
If you’re interested in tapping into this new industry talent pipeline, contact Dr. Wendall Braniff at [email protected]. To post either intern-
ships or permanent positions on UHD’s Career Services website, go to: www.uhd.edu/jobs4gators.
TAPPING INTO THE PIPELINE
The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International) recently awarded the College of Business at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) a full five-year extension of its initial accreditation. Founded in 1916, AACSB International is the longest-serving global accrediting body for business schools that offer undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degrees in business and accounting. AACSB Accreditation is the hallmark of ex
This spring, we welcome the first UH-
Downtown Insurance and Risk Manage-
ment graduate to the Advisory Council.
Scott W. Long was a 40-year-old owner
of a group benefits agency with a wife
and three children when he became an
IRM major at UHD in 2010. He earned
several IRM scholarships, graduated
magna cum laude and was named the Out-
standing Graduate of the IRM program
in 2013. Today, Scott is the area sales
manager for TransAmerica Em
GAMMA IOTA SIGMA
Dean Mike Fields
continued from page 1
upwardly mobile career positions. The insurance industry recog-
nized that in addition to traditional 22-year-old college graduates,
these older and more experienced graduates could add a much-
needed dimension to meet the immediate challenges of a work envi-
ronment needing mid-management talent to fill its aging ranks.
Houston is the largest city in Texas and the fourth largest city in the
nation. Located in Harris County with over 6 million residents,
Houston's economy has a broad industrial base in energy, manufac-
turing, aeronautics, and transportation. Houston is the home of the
Texas Medical Center - the world's largest concentration of
healthcare and research institutions - and NASA's Johnson Space
Center. Only New York City is home to more Fortune 500 head-
quarters. With these markets, resources, and risks, Houston also is
home to a large number of insurance agencies, carriers, wholesalers,
and a cornucopia of insurance-related businesses and associations.
UHD College of Business Dean Don Bates created one of the top
undergraduate IRM programs in the nation at Indiana State Univer-
sity. He worked with industry representatives to develop a proposal
creating the UHD Insurance and Risk Management Center. The
founding insurance entities included the Independent Insurance
Agents of Texas (IIAT), AIG, Hotchkiss Insurance Agency, USI
Southwest, Houston RIMS, Leicht General Agency, Chubb, Dean &
Draper, Myron Steves & Company, The Hartford, Kilpatrick Com-
ance Consulting, the Independent Insurance Agents of Houston, as
well as several individuals in the insurance industry.
Texas Department of Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin, Dean
& Draper Insurance Agency president and CEO Bob Dean, and The
Hartford’s regional manager Jeff Lang wrote letters supporting crea-
tion of the IRM Center and degree program. In early 2009, Dean
Bates’ proposal received the University of Houston System’s board
of regent approval. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating
Board, chaired by independent insurance agent Bob Shepard of
Harlingen, also approved. The UHD IRM Center and its bachelor in
business administration degree with a major in insurance and risk
management had launched.
For the IRM Center director, the founders recruited attorney and
fundraiser Wendall Braniff, law partner and wife of Tom Braniff,
one of the original founders of both the UT and UHD programs and
president of Texas Insurance Consulting. Two courses were offered
the first semester - and the first year had 64 enrollments.
In the summer of 2010, the Braniffs met with Professor Bill Fergu-
son at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Professors Andre
Liebenberg and Larry Cox at the University of Mississippi, and
Dean Mike Highfield and advisory council member Chris Boone,
chief marketing officer of Bancorp South, at Mississippi State Uni-
versity. Collegiate relationships were born and the candid discus-
sions with these experienced academicians and mentors provided
insights that proved important for the start-up program.
Through consultation with Wayne Dauterive of Metro National,
Mary Jane Fortin of AIG, and Houston CPCU Society members, a
curriculum was developed including courses in property, casualty,
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COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
ployee Benefits. He also serves on the board of directors for Hou-
ston Association of Health Underwriters.
AAMGA WRITING CONTEST
The American Association of Managing General Agents is hosting
Carvajal, Neelum Ashraf and Cory Lacy have submitted papers.
Judges will select papers for publication and pay all expenses for
those authors to attend the AAMGA conference in Hawaii May 18-
cellence in business education, and has been earned by less than 5 percent of the world’s business programs. Today, there are 694 business schools in 45 countries and territories that maintain AACSB Accreditation. “It takes a great deal of commitment and determination to earn and maintain AACSB Accreditation,” said Robert D. Reid, executive vice president and chief accreditation officer of AACSB Internation-al. “Business schools must make a commitment to ongoing continu-ous improvement to ensure that the institution will continue to deliver the highest quality of education to students.”
The College of Business will open its Career Center this summer, offering business majors and UHD students staff to assist with re-sume writing skills, mock interview practice and career opportuni-ty listings with Houston’s finest agencies, companies and other business entities. Insurance and risk management entities may post their positions with the Center and arrange to interview stu-dents and graduates in the private interview rooms, or schedule interviews at their own offices.
The UHD Beta Kappa chapter of Gamma Iota Sigma was chartered this spring. The chaptering ceremony was held March 21 at the College of Business and was attended by GIS members and advisors from other universities across the nation. The festivi-ties included the formal chaptering cere-mony conducted by GIS members, a recep-tion, and a tour of the National Weather Pamela Hurley, PhD
UHD’S Risk Manager in Residence, David Hershey, CPCU, CRM, CRIS, CPSR, ARM, AMIM, MLIS was on campus April 15-17 and presented to the Houston chapters of CPCU and RIMS as well as the College of Business Dean’s Executive Series and met with IRM students and ΓΙΣ fraternity members. He also made a guest appearance at the IRM Center’s Spring Advisory Council meeting. A risk manager for over 20 years, Hershey has worked with an insurance carrier and public broker in the areas of pollution liability, ocean marine, construction, munitions manufacturing, aviation, transportation and finite risk.
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INSURANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT CENTER
Spring 2014
SPENCER EDUCATION FOUNDATION Risk Manager in Residence Grant
Service forecasting center in Dickenson, Texas led by meteorolo-gists who track hurricanes and other weather events in the Gulf of Mexico and throughout the eastern seaboard.
GAMMA IOTA SIGMA
UHD charter members and faculty of Beta Kappa Chapter of Gamma Iota Sigma (l to r) Ivan Udalov, Yhontou
Jackson, Dr. Pamela Hurley, Theresa Epstein, Neelum Ashraf, Tamara
Peterson, Isabel Carvajal, Cory Lacy, Matthew Maxwell, Alumni Scott Long,
Dean Mike Fields, and IRM Center Director Wendall Braniff.
The Insurance Council of Texas awarded scholarships to ten UHD IRM majors for 2014. ICT is the largest association of insurance companies in the country, with over 500 members. Its annual scholarship awards to insurance and risk management students provide much needed financial assistance to students planning to enter the insurance industry and their distribution of scholarship awardees’ resumes to hiring managers provides real opportuni-ties to apply for career positions throughout the state.
ICT SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
Front Row: Juliet Cisneros, Theresa Epstein, Rachel Depue, Dr. Pamela Hurley, Dean Mike Fields Back Row: Dr. Tom Braniff, Beverly Huet, Jim Johnson ( ICT pres-ident), Justin Gonzalez, Alexandro Reyes, Mark Hanna, Matthew Maxwell, Dr. Wendall Braniff, Stacey Massey, Ali Nematpour Not pictured: Jovanna Lopez
IRM SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
The UHD Insurance and Risk Management Center scholarships, funded by the IRM Center Advisory Council, are awarded to IRM majors who meet the academic qualifications. The following students were awarded IRM scholarships for Spring 2014:
The Outstanding Graduates for the 2013-14 academic year have been named. The Fall Outstanding Graduate, Sean Wagner, received both IRM and CPCU scholarships and graduated magna cum laude shortly after com-pleting an internship and accepting an
Underwriting Assistant position with RPS-Leicht. The Spring Out-standing Graduate, Anna Berry, received IRM, ICT and CPCU scholar-ships and completed an internship and accepted a fulltime position as a Compliance Analyst with HCC Service Company. Congratulations on your outstanding performance!
Sean Wagner Anna Berry
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life, health, benefits, and risk management. Over time, partnerships
were formed with The Institutes, The National Alliance for Insurance
Education and Research, and The American College, to allow stu-
dents to earn credits toward professional designations while complet-
ing UHD IRM courses.
A 30-member Advisory Council of high-level industry executives