Newly formed Valiant Insurance Group Inc. said former Delos Insurance executive John DiBlanda has signed on to serve as the company's chief financial officer and chief operating officer.
Valiant, a subsidiary of Bermuda-based Ariel Holdings Ltd., was created this year to offer specialty property and casualty insurance products and services to the U.S. agency and brokerage market.
Valiant President Gary Dubois said the company was “extremely pleased' to have Mr. DiBlanda, praising him as a “highly qualified executive manager with over 20 years diverse financial and operational management experience within the insurance, reinsurance, financial services and public accounting industries.”
In his prior position, Mr. DiBlanda helped in the formation of Delos' new excess and surplus lines company, Naxos Insurance, which launched in April.
Mr. DiBlanda has also served as U.S. COO and Global CFO of Gallagher Re Inc. He was a senior executive of John P. Woods Co. Inc. and was responsible for the sale of the company to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
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