Speakers
Daryl W. Bradley is president of Everest National Insurance Company and responsible for the Insurance Operations of Everest Re Group, Ltd. He began his career with Everest in September 1995 as an underwriting director in the primary insurance operation. He became president of Everest National in August 2007.



Robert A. DiMuccio is the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Amica Mutual Group. He has served as the chair of the PCI Board of Governors during the 2010-2011 term, which will conclude at the end of the Annual Meeting.



Nina Easton is FORTUNE's Washington columnist and senior editor, covering politics and economics in the nation's capital for a readership of more than five million. Her column appears regularly in the magazine, and online at Fortune.com. She is a regular panelist on "Fox News Sunday" and "Special Report" with Bret Baier, and has recently appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press” and PBS’ “The Charlie Rose Show.” 

Byron G. Ehrhart is chairman of Aon Benfield Analytics and Aon Benfield Securities, Inc., as well as the chief strategy officer of Aon Benfield. He has led the development of Aon Benfield Analytics since joining the firm in 1994. Ehrhart is also a regular consultant to state and federal government officials on matters related to catastrophe insurance and reinsurance. He has extensive experience with legislative matters and has authored language that has become law in four states.

Patrick J. Haveron is president of Maiden Global Servicing Company, LLC as well as an executive vice president of Maiden Holdings, Ltd. From 2004 – 2009, Haveron was president and chief executive officer of Preserver Group, Inc., a regional property and casualty insurer.



Robert Jarratt is president and chief executive officer of Southern Farm Bureau Group. He has managed operations in Florida and Mississippi for Sourthern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company.




Robert J. Joyce, executive chair of Westfield Group, leads one of the country's 50 largest property casualty insurers, providing commercial and personal insurance, surety policies, as well as mortgage and banking services, to customers in 31 states.



Dr. Donald Kohn, served as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve System from 2006 – 2010. He advised Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke throughout the 2008-2009 financial crisis and also served as a key adviser to former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan. He currently is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Kohn has written extensively on issues related to monetary policy and its implementation by the Federal Reserve.

Anthony J. Kuczinski is president and chief executive officer of Munich Reinsurance America, Inc., chairman of HSB Group, Inc., and chairman of American Modern Insurance Group, Inc. He has overall responsibility for Munich Re’s property and casualty reinsurance and specialty insurance businesses in the U.S.


Robert McCollum, Jr. , is managing director of Deutsche Bank Group. He is co-head of North America Portfolio Management for Deutsche Insurance Asset Management (DIAM) and Head of DIAM Duration and Yield Curve Committee: New York.



Jonathan E. Michael is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of RLI Corp. and subsidiaries. RLI a specialty insurer headquartered in Peoria, Illinois. A NYSE company, RLI has assets of $2.5 billion and annual insurance premium writings of $636 million. Through four operating insurance companies, RLI offers specialty coverages nationwide.


Franklin (Tad) Montross is chairman and chief executive officer of General Re Corporation. He began his career with Gen Re in 1978 as a casualty facultative underwriter. Since then, he has held a number of positions of increasing responsibility, both in the U.S. and internationally.



General Peter Pace retired from active duty on Oct. 1, 2007, after more than 40 years of service in the United States Marine Corps. As the sixteenth chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he served as the principal military advisor to the President, the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council. Prior to becoming chairman, he served as vice chairman and is the first Marine to have served in either of these positions.

Parker W. Rush was named president and chief executive officer of The Republic Group on December 1, 2003. Since that time, Rush has overseen Republic’s emergence as a dominant regional carrier in the Southwest.




Dr. Larry J. Sabato, is the founder and head of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, where his ‘Crystal Ball’ electoral analysis expertly navigates the shifting sands of American electoral politics, accurately predicting the landslides, the nail-biters, and everything in between.



Jack Salzwedel will become the chairman and chief executive officer of American Family Insurance, on November 1, 2011. He became the chief operating officer of the company in August 2006 and president and chief operating officer in January 2007.



Jeffrey A. Schoenfeld is a partner of Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), the largest private financial institution in the United States. He joined BBH in 1984, and today serves as the co-chair of the firm’s Fixed Income Policy Committee where he supervises the management of over $30 billion in assets.



Jim VandeHei is co-founder and executive editor of POLITICO, the highly influential political Web site and newspaper. Along with co-founder John Harris, VandeHei left the Washington Post in 2006 to create the all-politics-all-the-time site, which has more than three million unique visitors each month. Drawing on 15 years of experience in Washington journalism, VandeHei directs POLITICO’s editorial content and oversees its business strategy.




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