“We’re excited about making a difference in an industry that I think is ready for innovators.”
Name:
Barbara Bufkin
Company: Hamilton USA Job:
Executive vice president, business development
Timeline: 2014—Executive vice president, business development, Hamilton USA 2013—Chief operating officer, Global Strategic Advisory, Guy Carpenter
Barbara Bufkin’s tenure in the industry has included primary insurance, reinsurance and as a reinsurance intermediary. She joined Hamilton USA from Guy Carpenter where she held the position of chief operating officer, Global Strategic Advisory. Prior to joining Guy Carpenter, she spent 12 years at Argo International Holdings as a member of the executive team, leading corporate business development, growth strategies, corporate risk and ceded reinsurance. Bufkin has also served as director of Swiss Re New Markets and as
chairman, president and chief executive officer of Swiss Re subsidiary Facility Insurance Holding Corporation. She attended Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy, graduating cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is an alumna of Leadership Texas. Bufkin was nominated to the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame in 2000 and selected to the 2004 Class of Leadership America. In 2012, she was chosen as Insurance Woman of the Year by the Association of Professional Insurance Women (APIW). In 2015 Bufkin has been awarded the prestigious Inclusion Champion Award by the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), a non-profit organisation established in 1994 to leverage the collective strengths of the insurance industry by providing grants, volunteer service and leadership to communities throughout the US. The IICF’s Inclusion Champion Award recognises insurance leaders who are mentors and sponsors to women in the industry.
What has been the highlight of your career so far? Working with Brian Duperreault, Conan Ward and the other
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members of the executive team at Hamilton Insurance Group is truly the opportunity of a lifetime and something I think I may have been preparing my entire career to do.
What has been the biggest challenge you have
encountered? Globally, new approaches to existing risks and emergent challenges require us to rally fresh thinking but also strain our conventional apparatus. What is emerging is even closer collaboration with our clients.
What are your career aspirations now? At Hamilton USA, we believe we can deliver the next generation of small business—and we know that the key to this delivery lies in data. In simple terms, we are making incremental wins, not with
a secret sauce but with a focus on doing more business, more quickly, with better data—delivering value to our partners, our customers. To support our strategy, we’re attracting best in class talent, talent from diverse backgrounds, talent that wants to join us because they share our passion for what we can and will do. We’re a team, fostering collaboration and diversity of thought
and building a new kind of insurance company with no legacy to constrain us. We’re excited about making a difference in an industry that I think is ready for innovators. With all humility, I believe this is the team that can get it done, and I’m so proud to be a part of it.
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