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Lockton Companies hasnamed Julie Gibson senior vicepresident, director of marketing, communications and externalaffairs. Gibson spent the previous seven years as clientpartnership director at Kansas City-based Global Prairie.

Eric Solash has been appointed globalhead of capital markets at VictorInsurance Holdings, a managing general underwriter. Hepreviously served as managing director and head of alternativefunding at General Electric Company.

Todd Mitchell Associates hasappointed Tawana Carter chiefmarketing officer. Carter previously served as CEO at TCBSolutions,an executive outplacement firm.

Valerie Butt has been named head ofcasualty for Zurich North America CommercialInsurance, effective Oct. 16. Most recently, Butt served as globalhead of customer, distribution and market management for CommercialInsurance.

Aon plc hasappointed Brian Dougal seniorvice president, resident sales director in its Grand Rapids office.Prior to this, he served as West region property practiceleader.

Bill Pollert hasjoined Everest Insurance's marketing &distribution team as a director in the East region. He joinsEverest Insurance from Marsh USA where he worked for the last 14years, most recently serving as senior vice president, portfoliomanager within the Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitionsteam.

Managing general agent and Lloyd'scoverholder Northeast NationalBrokerageLLC (NNB) hasnamed Robin Pisecki executiveunderwriter. Pisecki comes to NNB from Rockhill Insurance Company,a member of State Auto Group, where she worked as specialty linesdirector.

Kevin Harnetiaux hasjoined EPIC Insurance Brokers andConsultants as senior vice president and COOof EPIC's Sacramento region. He joins from the State Fund ofCalifornia where he served as executive vice president of fieldoperations.

Hawaii Insurance Commissioner Gordon Ito hasannounced Andrew Kurata's appointment asdeputy commissioner and captive insurance administrator for theDepartment of Commerce and Consumer AffairsInsurance Division. He previously held the position inan acting capacity.

XSBrokers has promoted GabeCarrieri to national brokerage leader andexecutive vice president. He first joined XS Brokers in 2005 as anunderwriter.

Related: People on the move in the P&C insuranceindustry: Oct. 12, 2018