Dawnmarie Black - President Market Development Director - Lloyd's Americas Region
Dawnmarie is an accomplished broker and underwriter who joined Lloyd’s in 2018 from London broker BMS Group. She brings more than 30 years of experience, having served in senior roles with Ascot, Aon, AIG, and Chubb.

Dawnmarie is responsible for leading the Market Development Strategy in the US, Canada, and Latin America and managing a team of market development executives and associates. Lloyd’s stakeholders in the US include retail, wholesale, and reinsurance brokers; program managers; managing general agents; risk managers; and market supporting organizations such as TMPAA/WSIA/RIMS. The US represents over 50% of Lloyd’s total written premium.

Black holds a B.A. from Allegheny College. She is affiliated with several industry groups and insurance industry philanthropic efforts, including the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation; Association of Professional Insurance Women (currently Treasurer and Co-chair of programming); and serves on the Target Markets Women’s Leadership Committee. Her past board roles include Intermediaries & Reinsurance Underwriters Association and Chair of IICF Boston Board. She has been recognized by IBA on their Elite Women, Hot 100, and Business Global 100 lists as well as being recognized by IICF as an Inclusion Champion in 2021.

Kara Owens is a reinsurance executive at Stone Ridge Asset Management working on various (re)insurance initiatives throughout the company. Prior to joining Stone Ridge in 2022, Ms. Owens was the Global Head of Cyber and ESG at Markel Corporation, where she led underwriting, enterprise risk management and product development for Markel’s cyber portfolio. Previously, Ms. Owens was the Global Head of Cyber at TransRe as well as a Specialty Casualty underwriter where she was instrumental in forming TransRe’s Women’s Group. She began her career at Guy Carpenter structuring reinsurance placements across various short-tail and long-tail insurance products. Ms. Owens graduated magna cum laude from Temple University with a BA in Risk Management and Insurance and Marketing and holds her CPCU, RPLU, and ARe insurance certifications. In addition to APIW, she is very engaged with mentoring Risk Management students and volunteering with St. Baldrick’s Organization. Ms. Owens has a sweet little boy and two crazy dogs. She enjoys reading, hiking, animals and traveling the world.

Renata Bauer-Saville is dedicated to fostering and maintaining strategic relationships within the commercial property and casualty insurance market. With over a decade of experience in insurance, her network encompasses a broad spectrum of clients, including Fortune 500 companies, Risk Managers, CFOs, retail and wholesale brokerages, claims professionals, and underwriters both in the US and internationally.

As the Vice President of Major Accounts at McLarens, Renata drives territory growth and new business development on the East Coast. She plays a key role in leading major accounts team strategy and developing new processes that are essential to McLarens’ long-term success. Renata is also passionate about supporting and mentoring women in the industry. Beyond her role on the APIW Board, she serves as the Director of Memberships for YRP North Florida.

Born and raised in Brazil, Renata is fluent in both Portuguese and English. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City, NJ, where she was recruited for their Division 1 Volleyball team. After graduating, Renata completed a certificate in Public Relations and Image Management from NYU and participated in Wharton Executive Education’s program on Driving Strategic Innovation: Leading Complex Initiatives for Impact. As a proud mother of twin girls, she continues to navigate the balance between work, life, and motherhood. In her free time, Renata enjoys traveling with her family, practicing pilates, and occasionally trying her hand at golf.

Kathleen Alicks, Chief Compliance Officer for Seneca Insurance company, has been with the Crum & Forster (C&F) organization for over 20 years. After holding several field leadership positions at C&F/Seneca, she created and developed the Home Office Underwriting Group of Product Line Management in 2016. Shortly thereafter she assumed responsibilities for Regulatory Compliance. She has been instrumental in helping shape the future leaders and underwriters at Seneca by developing various training programs and mentoring several women in the organization.

Kathleen is known to be an ambassador for Seneca in the C&F group and currently participates in cross-functional guilds, including the Enterprise Risk Officer guild as Seneca’s Risk Officer.  Her passion for DEI has given rise for the opportunity to serve on C&F’s DEI council, participate as an ally in several Employee Resource groups including PRIDE & ABES (Advocates for Black Equity), and is currently serving as an Executive Sponsor for the Women’s ERG, WAVE (Women Amplifying Value & Equity).  In 2022, Kathleen was the recipient of The Extraordinary Women in an Extraordinary Year award from APIW (Association for Professional Insurance Women) for her work in the DEI space, contributions during the pandemic, and her work as a member of the Board of Trustees for Birth Haven, a homeless shelter providing services for young pregnant women in Newton, NJ.

Prior to her arrival at C&F/Seneca, she spent the early years of her career honing her underwriting skills at General Star Management, a subsidiary of General Reinsurance. Kathleen is currently a council member of the APIW New Jersey Network.  She grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and attended Fairfield University where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing.

Liz Kramer is the President, E&S for Munich Re Specialty Insurance, Munich Re’s primary specialty insurance operation focused primarily on property, casualty and specialty lines.

Liz brings expertise in leading underwriting divisions in addition to specialty insurance from her previous roles at global re/insurance organizations. Prior to joining Munich Re Specialty Insurance, Kramer served as Senior Vice President, Head Technical Underwriting – Alternative Markets, at Zurich N.A. Prior to that role, Liz led Technical Underwriting for all Casualty lines across North America. From 1993 to 2017, Liz held a variety of roles at Gen Re, most recently as North America Treaty Strategy Manager and P&C Line Of Business Product Manager.

Liz received her MBA in International Business in 2000 from McGill University’s 2-year MBA Japan program in Tokyo, Japan, and her BA in Economics in 1990 from State University of New York in Binghamton. She has earned the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and Associate in Reinsurance (ARe) designations.

Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer
Marsh McLennan Agency
300 Cherapa Place, Suite 601
Sioux Falls, SD 57103

Kira Kimball serves as the national Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer for Marsh McLennan Agency, where she provides strategic and tactical leadership to advance efforts to attract and celebrate diverse perspectives while promoting and protecting a level playing field for all colleagues. Creating a workplace culture where everyone can be their authentic selves, an environment that fosters a strong sense of belonging, and a business strategy that harnesses the power of diversity are her energy drivers.

As a committed business leader in her community of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Kira serves on the board of directors for Southeast Tech Foundation, Levitt at The Falls, Sioux Falls Development Foundation, 100 Women Who Care Sioux Falls, Sioux Empire Women Connect, Sioux Empire United Way & Pathways to Inclusive & Equitable Workplaces, a nonprofit she founded and the national board of the Association of Professional Insurance Women. Kira is a member of the Greater Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce Leadership Sioux Falls Executive Committee, volunteers as a Sioux Empire United Way Impact Team member and as an EmBe women’s leadership program mentor, greatly adding to the purpose with which she lives her life. Kira is the first person in both SD & ND to earn the National Diversity Council Certified Diversity Professional designation and she is a Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory. Kira was recognized in Sioux Falls Woman and received an EmBe Tribute to Women Community Services Award for her abounding passion for diversity, equity & inclusion.

Prior to Kira’s sixteen years in the insurance industry, she spent a decade in higher education teaching, advising and counseling students at Purdue University and The Ohio State University with a focus on leadership & organizational development, career exploration and diversity equity & inclusion. Kira studied English and philosophy at Minnesota State University Moorhead as an undergraduate and received graduate degrees in both counseling & development and English at Purdue. Passionately believing everyone’s self-esteem and potential are worth supporting, Kira commits to living this belief both in and outside the workplace.

Tracey Vasile is the Senior Vice President of Client Engagement at Verisk leading a team of Client Engagement Executives with a primary focus of promoting innovation, developing strategy and facilitating enterprise-wide connectedness with our most strategically important insurance clients.
Tracey also facilitated the creation of the Executive Sponsor Roundtable and works closely with senior executives within both Verisk and the carriers on several strategic initiatives.
Tracey joined Verisk in 2010 and served as a National Account Executive and Assistant Vice President of Sales before taking on her current role leading the Client Engagement Team.
Prior to joining Verisk, she spent 16 years in sales and sales management positions at LexisNexis, working with corporations aligning data solutions with both tactical and strategic company initiatives.

Tracey earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MBA in Marketing from Sacred Heart University. She is also a member of the Board of Directors for Hope Loves Company, and her town’s Planning and Personnel Boards. She also serves as the Chapter Advisor for the Alpha Chi Omega chapter at Brown University.