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SAN DIEGO | WWW.WSIA.ORG

A NEW BEGINNING

Welcome to the new WSIA nnual Marketplace. We are pleased to welcome more than 4,300 registered attendees to San Diego with an outstanding lineup of networking, social and educational events.

The Annual Marketplace opens Monday morning, and you may pick up packets throughout the event on the 2nd Level of the Manchester Grand Hyatt. We also hope you will plan to attend the programs that are scheduled. WSIA’s U40 will host several events including a Development Session Monday afternoon and an Executive Panel Discussion on Tuesday followed by a networking reception, open to all members. We will officially kick off the week at tonight’s Opening Reception at the Marriott Marquis in the Marriott Grand Ballroom.

This year’s keynote address, part of the E.G.

Lassiter Lecture Series, presented by the Derek
Hughes/NAPSLO Educational Foundation,
will be delivered by Randi Zuckerberg during
Wednesday’s General Session. Zuckerberg is the
Founder & CEO of Zuckerberg Media, a bou-
tique marketing firm and production company.
Prior to founding her own company, Randi
worked at Facebook, where she created and ran
the social media pioneer’s marketing programs.

The General Session will also include special recognition of the creation of WSIA and the leaders of its legacy organizations, the AAMGA and NAPSLO. We hope you will plan to attend to celebrate the merger and our shared history.

On behalf of the WSIA Board of Directors, thank you for attending — and welcome to San Diego! X

Corinne Jones | President

James Drinkwater | Annual Marketplace Committee Chair

BY SHAWN MOYNIHAN

At a Town Hall meeting hosted during NAPSLO’s Mid-Year Leadership Forum at the Marriott Resort in Harbor Beach in March, leaders representing the two largest professional surplus lines organizations spent 90 minutes laying out their strategy for the coming months — including the timeline for the approval vote, details on which annual events would still take place (and when) should the merger come to pass, and a long list of additional details sorted out after months of due diligence by the Merger Committee.

NAPSLO President Dave Leonard; AAMGA President Ed Levy; Hank Haldeman, NAPSLO past president and chairman of the AAMGA-NAPSLO Merger Committee; AAMGA Treasurer Bobby Owens, vice chairman of the AAMGA-NAPSLO Merger Committee; and NAPSLO Executive Director Brady Kelley took the dais to outline the greater purpose and finer points of the proposed new organization, which, if AAMGA and NAPSLO members were to vote to join forces, would create WSIA — the Wholesale & Specialty Insurance Association.