Cunningham Lindsey (December 01, 2008)

After 49 years in the industry, Brian Harris, senior vice president of corporate compliance for Cunningham Lindsey, will retire on Dec 30.

At least for 31 days until his pension kicks in, he joked at his retirement party on Nov. 12 at the St. Andrews Club and Conference Centre. During his time in the insurance field, Harris tried his hand at politics, serving as city councilor in Ward 5 in Montreal from 1981 to 1989. He has also been a member of the Canadian Independent Adjusters’ Association since 1984. He earned his Chartered Loss Adjuster (CLA) in 1994 and was recently named an Honourary Life Member at the CIAA’s AGM.

“As you retire,” Miles Barber, past president of the CIAA wrote in a letter read during the retirement party, “know that you put more into the industry than you took out.” Harris thanked his wife of 43 years and counting for being the strength and the rock of the family; and his family, for being a lifeline for him. He thanked those that attended and those that couldn’t; his colleagues from the office and those at the CIAA.

“Thank you for allowing me to work with you,” he said. “It is you that have made me.”