Leading Women in Risk and Insurance are Feted in Women to Watch Awards.

• Author: Acunto, Steve

N Our partner publication, Business Insurance, the insuring industry's leading national source of news, information and data on risk management, workers compensation and commercial insurance, feted 2019 Women to Watch Award winners during its annual W2W Leadership Conference and Awards Luncheon in New York, December 12, 2019. The London event, held November 15, 2019, attracted the EU's top women in the field and was a great success.

Now in its 14th year, the W2W awards are among the industry's best recognized distinctions, reached through independent nomination and selection processes and dedicated to the edification and advancement of women in the field. Among this year's honorees are leading executives with remarkable records of accomplishment and leadership service in the insurance and risk management sectors.

"It is our great privilege to celebrate the achievements of these outstanding female executives in the insurance and risk management sector," said Linda Lane, Chairman of the Women to Watch Foundation Board of Directors. "As more women move into senior leadership positions, they are challenging and improving what was an often stale status quo and inspiring future women leaders in the industry." Ms. Lane, herself a past honoree, is President of Harbor Health Systems, a national provider of health care analytics.

"We are delighted that more than 700 industry leaders and other professionals are anticipated to join us for the award ceremony," she continued. "Our honorees will join the most prestigious list of achievers in all of business insurance, in fact in all of the world of commerce itself and are applauded by major corporate sponsors in the field and by their C-Suite peers all over the US and abroad. It is a proud and fitting tribute"

This year's U.S. honorees include:

* Nicole Abdallah, President and CEO, JND Healthcare Management

* Michelle Bennett, Director, Risk Management and Internal Audit, Cable One, Inc.

* Nicole Bennett, Chief of Staff, Crum and Forster Holdings Corp.

* Melissa Cerny, Area President, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.

* Chris Chang Dumortier, Executive Vice President, Alliant Insurance Services, Inc.

* Olga Collins - Managing Director of Multinational Practice, Beecher Carlson, a unit of Brown & Brown, Inc.

* Josephine Copeland, Vice President, Managed Care, PMA Cos.

* Yosha DeLong, Head of Cyber and Professional Lines Underwriting, Zurich North America

* Randi Ellias, Partner, Porter Wright...