The Insurance Marketing Communications Association announced yesterday that John A. (Jack) Bogardus Jr. has been awarded the group's Golden Torch Award in recognition of lifelong contributions to the insurance industry.
Mr. Bogardus, former chairman and chief executive officer of global insurance broker Alexander & Alexander, also is author of Spreading the Risks: Insuring the American Experience, an award-winning history of the insurance industry and insurance brokers.
The award was announced at IMCA's 2006 Annual Meeting, held at the Intercontinental Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco.
Presented since 1991, the IMCA Golden Torch Award recognizes an individual, group or organization that has “helped light the way for others” in the insurance industry by improving standards for communications excellence, speaking out convincingly on behalf of the insurance industry, showing a sense of responsibility to society and/or improving public understanding of insurance issues.
Nancy Oblinger, principal and consultant with Strategic Marketing & Communications in New York, nominated Mr. Bogardus for the award, saying he had “worked to create context and relevance for our industry and its development.”
IMCA said that in his 40-year career with Alexander & Alexander, Mr. Bogardus was “a progressive and outspoken figure in the insurance industry. He championed the use of analytical statistics in risk management, was a featured speaker at numerous industry meetings, and served as a director of the Insurance Brokers Association of New York and a director and chairman of the governing committee of the National Association of Insurance Brokers.
He was also a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Insurance Committee and a board member of the American Institute for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters and the Insurance Institute of America.
Additionally, Mr. Bogardus served as a director of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Inc., Security Capital Corporation and United States Surgical Corporation.
Currently residing in Scottsdale, Ariz., Mr. Bogardus is a Princeton University graduate and former U.S. Navy officer.
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