Early in his insurance career, Mario Vitale had a key encounter with a supervisor that inspired his ascent through the ranks at his first employer and beyond.
While newly employed in the Property department at the Home Insurance Co., Vitale was a young gun mapping risk exposures and aggregating which policies were written on a particular structure. It was boring, tedious work in a dismal setting, but he excelled at it.
“In those days, they had very long rows of grey desks, and the youngest trainee would always sit in the front desk — and the most experienced person in any product line or function sat in the back and they could watch,” he recalls. “If somebody left or died, you'd move back a desk. That's just the way it worked. It was very, very uniform.
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Shawn Moynihan is Editor-in-Chief of National Underwriter Property & Casualty. A St. John’s University alum, Moynihan has earned 11 Jesse H. Neal Awards, the Pulitzers of the business press; seven Azbee Awards, from the American Society of Business Press Editors; two Folio Awards; and a SABEW award, from the Society of American Business Editors & Writers. Prior to joining ALM, he served as Managing Editor/Online Editor of journalism institution Editor & Publisher, the trade bible of the newspaper industry. Moynihan also has held editorial positions with AOL, Metro New York, and Newhouse Newspapers. He can be reached at [email protected].
