Annotti Leaving PCI

The National Fraternal Congress of America announced that Joseph J. Annotti, currently senior vice president, public affairs for Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI), has been hired as its new president and chief executive officer.

Mr. Annotti is due to take up his position with the Oak Brook, Ill.-based group on March 24.

During his tenure at PCI, Mr. Annotti served as the group's main spokesman and was responsible for the overall management of the association's public affairs and media relations activities, and developed and delivered public policy messages on the association's key issues to the trade, business and consumer media.

Prior to joining PCI, Mr. Annotti served as vice president of marketing communications for American Business Insurance insurance brokerage. He spent more than eight years with Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of California as vice president of public affairs.

Mr. Annotti fills a position vacant since May of last year when Frederick H. Grubbe resigned. Since that time, the management of the NFCA has been overseen by Interim President and CEO Bob Huxel. Mr. Annotti will work together with Mr. Huxel to ensure a smooth transition into this office, as Mr. Huxel will resume his post as NFCA government affairs director.

“Working with the NFCA members and staff, I hope to contribute to the expansion of the fraternal system and to make certain that public policymakers at all levels understand the important altruistic and economic contributions made by these organizations,” said Mr. Annotti.

The 122-year-old NFCA includes 74 not-for-profit fraternal benefit societies with 10 million members and 37,000 chapters operating in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Canada, including such groups as the Knights of Columbus and Thrivent.

Fraternal benefit societies provide their members with leadership, social, educational, spiritual, patriotic, scholarship, financial and volunteer-service opportunities. The NFCA's member-societies maintain more than $329 billion of life insurance in-force and, in 2006 alone, contributed almost $410 million to charitable and fraternal programs and volunteered nearly 95 million hours for community-service projects.