Burns & Wilcox Canada Continues Expansion With Key Hires
September 27, 2012 by Canadian Underwriter magazine
Burns & Wilcox Canada is pleased to announce that Mei Han, CIP, MBA and Nicole Abraham, BA, CIP, CRM have joined the company, adding significant experience and enhancing the abilities of the Burns & Wilcox Canada team as it expands in key Canadian markets. Mei Han joins the team as a Commercial Insurance Underwriter and Nicole Abraham joins the team as National Sales and Marketing Manager.
“Burns & Wilcox Canada is dedicated to providing Canadian brokers with underwriting solutions that other insurance wholesalers cannot provide,” said Gary Hirst, Executive Director, Burns & Wilcox Canada. “Both Mei and Nicole will be instrumental in enhancing our service to Canadian brokers as we grow our business and we are very proud to welcome them into the Burns & Wilcox family.”
Mei Han comes to Burns & Wilcox with more than seven years’ experience as a broker and underwriter with expertise in both personal and commercial coverages. Ms. Han comes to Burns & Wilcox Canada from Aviva Canada Inc., where she handled both commercial and personal lines. Prior to that, she handled commercial underwriting for AIG China after starting her career at Beijing New World Insurance in China. Han completed her MBA with Richard Ivey School of Business in Canada and the Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University in The Netherlands and has her Chartered Insurance Professional designation. She is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.
Nicole Abraham brings more than twelve years’ of industry experience to Burns & Wilcox Canada with deep expertise in business development and broker management. Ms. Abraham joins Burns & Wilcox Canada after ten years at Unica Insurance Company, where her most recent roles were Business Development Manager and Leader of Broker Management. She began her career at RSA Insurance in both their Toronto and Dubai offices working in broker management and sales training. Her education includes a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto, and the Chartered Insurance Professional and CRM designations.
About Burns & Wilcox Canada Burns & Wilcox Canada offers more than 300 products and fast turnaround to the Canadian brokerage community, recently created through the acquisition of the Chesterfield Group, a company known internationally for providing fast service in quoting and binding business. Burns & Wilcox Canada uses both Canadian domestic insurers as well as international carriers, including Lloyd’s underwriters. With offices in Toronto, Ottawa and St. John’s, Burns & Wilcox Canada is part of the Kaufman Financial Group and has close ties to 39 Burns & Wilcox offices in the United States to facilitate trans-border business and offer global solutions to Canadian clients.
About Burns & Wilcox and the Kaufman Financial Group Burns & Wilcox is the industry’s largest privately-held wholesale broker and underwriting manager. Burns & Wilcox has more than 40 offices across the United States, Canada and London and employs more than 1,000 professionals. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Metro Detroit, Burns & Wilcox is internationally recognized for its insurance brokerage and underwriting expertise in commercial and professional liability, property, marine and personal insurance.
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