You’re invited to:

The 2012 PIANY/NYIA Insurance Leadership Forum—How do you stand out and make an impact?

Our program moderator is Sam Friedman, insurance research leader for Deloitte Research at Deloitte’s Center for Financial Services. Sam formerly served as the editor-in-chief at National Underwriter for 29 years.

Where: The Century House—Route 9, Latham, N.Y.

When: Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012
Networking luncheon begins at noon
Program begins at 1:15 p.m.

Details: Program is complimentary.
Cost of luncheon is $25 (prepayment is required).
Space is limited, so register today for the program and/or prepay for the luncheon.

Register now to get your seat at the table with peers from throughout the state. Expect a lively interaction with not one, but two panels. They’ll explore:

• Panel I:  How do you stand out and make an impact with your carrier?
  • What does it take to be an agency that a carrier would want to have as a business partner?

  Panelists:
  Jeffrey W. Rice, CPCU, Are, chair, New York Insurance Association and president and CEO, Wayne Cooperative Insurance Co.;
  Cindy Van Hoesen, director of marketing and underwriting, Mercury Insurance Co.; and
  Ann Zaprazny, senior vice president and east regional officer, Erie Insurance Co.
  

• Panel II: How do you stand out and make an impact with an agency?
  
  • What does it take to be a carrier that an agency would want to have as a business partner?
    

Panelists:
Michael J. Skeele, CIC, CPIA, president, Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. and president, Skeele Agency Inc.;
Richard A. Savino, CIC, CPIA, immediate past president, Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. and president and CEO, Warwick Resource Group; and
Gino Orrino, president, New York Young Insurance Professionals and president and founder, Orrino Capital Services LLC.

An optional networking lunch will kick off the information-packed afternoon. (Choose the “lunch and program” registration option above.)

Join your fellow PIANY and NYIA members on Nov. 14, 2012. The program is provided FREE as a member benefit (additional $25 charge for optional lunch). Space is limited so pre-registration is required.

We look forward to seeing you at this exclusive and intimate event so mark your calendars and register today.

Sincerely,

You are invited to this exclusive and intimate event so mark your calendars and register today, as space is limited.

Sam Friedman is the insurance research leader for Deloitte Research at Deloitte's Center for Financial Services, putting his journalistic skills and three decades of industry experience to good use analyzing the latest trends and identifying the major challenges confronting  the property/casualty and life insurance industries.

He joined Deloitte in October 2010 after 29 years at National Underwriter P&C, where he served as editor-in-chief, running the day-to-day editorial operations of NU's  weekly newsmagazine and daily online news service, while offering commentary via his award­winning column and blog, "A View From The Press Box."

Sam also was group editor-in-chief of the Property & Casualty Media Division at NU's parent company, Summit Business Media, overseeing American Agent & Broker, Claims, Florida Underwriter and Tech Decisions For Insurance. Sam joined Deloitte after partnering with the firm on a ground-breaking "P&C Producer Satisfaction Survey" in 2009.

Sam graduated from Brooklyn College in 1979, the Professional Publishing Course at Stanford University in 1997 and Northwestern University's Advanced Media Management course in 2003.

Sam is a member of the Society of lnsurance Research, as well as the Society of Professional Journalists.