Personnel Announcement

Atlanta – September 29, 2026 -- Corgi Insurance has appointed Stephen Segroves as Head of Pricing, tasking him with building rating models for its trucking program and commercial lines nationwide.

Segroves brings nearly two decades of actuarial and pricing experience to Corgi's underwriting build-out

Segroves most recently served as Senior Director, Actuary at Nirvana Insurance, where he oversaw insurance analytics and pricing operations. Prior to that role, he spent three years as Senior Director of Data Science at VoyageWorks, leading a cross-functional team of data scientists, actuaries, and data engineers to develop predictive and machine learning models aimed at improving commercial auto profitability.

Alexandria, Va. – September 28, 2026 -- ISC2, the nonprofit membership organization representing more than 270,000 certified cybersecurity professionals, has appointed Brionne Dawson as Executive Vice President for Advocacy, tasking her with elevating practitioner voices in policy debates over AI adoption, cyber resilience and workforce development.

Dawson joins ISC2 from Google after leading government affairs across 120-plus markets

Dawson brings more than two decades of experience in technology policy, government affairs and commercial diplomacy. She most recently led international government affairs for emerging markets across more than 120 countries at Google, later serving as Head of Middle East and Africa, where her portfolio covered AI policy, cybersecurity, cloud computing, digital trade and cross-border data flows.

New York – September 28, 2026 -- Lazard, Inc. (NYSE: LAZ) has appointed Pranjal Gambhir as Head of Medical Technology, based in New York, as the advisory firm expands its healthcare coverage.

Gambhir brings two decades of Citi experience to Lazard's healthcare practice

Gambhir joins from Citi, where he most recently served as Managing Director covering Medical Technology companies across multiple sub-sectors. He spent 20 years at Citi in roles based in New York and New Delhi, building coverage across the sector's various segments.

San Francisco – September 25, 2026 -- Vouch Insurance has appointed Brandon Kaufman as Head of Claims, tasking the former EPIC claims executive with overseeing claims advocacy for the tech-focused broker's more than 6,000 clients.

Kaufman brings carrier-side and litigation experience to the role

Kaufman joins from EPIC, where he served as Vice President of Claims, advising clients on resolving complex, high-exposure claims and reducing loss ratios across risk management portfolios. He previously held in-house counsel roles at an ad tech startup and a mobility startup, building global insurance programs and managing litigation and claims. He also consulted at a global insurance brokerage on contractual insurance requirements and began his career on Capitol Hill as legal counsel on federal transportation issues. Kaufman holds a degree from the University of Florida and a Juris Doctor from Syracuse University.

Stockholm – September 21, 2026 --

Fredrik Rystedt, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Essity, has notified the company of his intention to retire during 2027, triggering an immediate search for his successor.

Rystedt exits after more than nine years steering Essity's finances

Rystedt has served as CFO and Executive Vice President at Essity for over nine years. He will remain in his current role until a successor is appointed and an orderly handover is completed, the company said.

London and St Helier, Jersey – September 21, 2026 -- Bloomsbury Money Group has appointed Thomas Holst, a former SAP health-technology engineer with more than a decade of experience, as Chief Technology Officer to lead the build-out of its multi-jurisdiction banking platform.

Holst will unify fiat, digital assets and payment rails onto one platform

Holst joins from SAP's health technology ecosystem in Germany, where he spent 13 years building data-intensive, privacy-critical software for hospitals and research institutions and the cloud infrastructure supporting it. At Bloomsbury Money, he will oversee technology strategy, engineering and platform architecture as the group consolidates its multi-currency accounts, foreign exchange, cross-border payments and regulated virtual asset services onto a single infrastructure designed to operate under one standard of control across multiple regulatory regimes.

Atlanta – September 21, 2026 -- Corgi Insurance has appointed Daniel Hausman as Vice President of its Trucking Program, tapping an underwriter who helped scale two commercial trucking insurance programs to a combined $50 million in premium.

Hausman previously grew CSMV Underwriters from zero to nearly $20 million in one year

At CSMV Underwriters, Hausman built the book from the ground up, reaching close to $20 million in premium within 12 months. He then served as the first Non-Fleet Business Development Manager at Nirvana, scaling that program from zero to $30 million through work on rates, forms redesign, go-to-market strategy and broker-of-record guidelines.

New York – September 19, 2026 -- CAEVES Technology, Inc. has appointed Kirk Ryan, a two-decade infrastructure veteran, as Director of AI Innovation on its Advisory Board, tasking him with extending the company's AI Data Platform beyond Microsoft Copilot to additional AI assistant ecosystems.

Ryan brings NetApp and consultancy pedigree to CAEVES' AI buildout

Ryan previously served as Global Principal Technologist at NetApp and is Managing Director of KDBL, a UK-based AI consultancy. He is known for commentary on enterprise AI, retrieval-augmented generation, search, and the Model Context Protocol.

Richmond – September 19, 2026 -- Alps Dx has named 26-year diagnostics industry veteran Pam Lacock as vice president of sales and opened a new 2,030-square-foot headquarters and manufacturing hub in Richmond, Virginia, as the company shifts from product development toward broader commercialization of its oral fluid testing platform.

Detroit – September 19, 2026 -- Caracal Products & Services has appointed Jim Wheeler, a healthcare sales strategist with more than 34 years of industry experience, as its new Vice President of National Sales.

Wheeler brings three decades of health system account management to Caracal's distribution business

Wheeler most recently supported business development and sales at Concordance Healthcare Solutions, where he worked with integrated health systems across Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana, providing consulting services aimed at reducing costs and increasing revenue for those systems.

Caracal CEO says hire targets deeper customer alignment on medical products

Caracal President and CEO Donald Roberts said Wheeler's health care sales background positions him to work closely with customers on product selection suited to their operating environments.