Brian White

About Brian White

Experienced Property & Casualty Underwriting, Product, and Strategy leader with a proven record of profitable growth via loss and expense management, product design and delivery, strategic roadmap creation and execution, and customer acquisition strategies. Hands-on, engaging, tactical leader with a record of leading business operations through transformational change. High level communicator with strengths in strategic planning, creativity, and enthusiastic leadership.

Experience

1. Vice President of Product Strategy

   AmTrust Financial Services, Inc.

   Nov 2022 — Present · Des Moines, IA, US

   Build and execute short- and long-term strategic plans for profitable growth, including product expansion, implementing innovative and emerging capabilities, and facilitating all-lines solutions. Act as a change agent and drive new go-to-market strategies across the organization. Prioritize high level strategic investments and objectives for optimized timelines and outcomes. Align IT, Product, Underwriting, Loss Control, Sales, Pricing, Claims, Finance, and other business units for commitment and execution.Perform long-term strategic and financial planning, particularly around multi-line strategies, underwriting, and product development & expansion.Manage projects from scoping to delivery, acting as a force multiplier for technical experts. Improve efficiency of underwriting and underwriting support operations.Assess appetite and process inconsistencies across regions and determine root cause of outcomes - develop and implement action plans to improve outcomes in alignment with strategic goals.Develop and implement claims/underwriting/product/loss control/sales roundtables to identify and address emerging risks and trends; facilitate and drive underwriting and product action plans to address risks and activate opportunities.Evaluate data and capability partners for price sophistication, risk selection, process optimization, and portfolio management.

Education

• Wartburg College

  Economics, Micro and Macro Economics

  1998 — 2002

• Wartburg College

  Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Business Management

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Commercial Lines Coverage
• Leadership
• Sales
• Personal Lines
• Strategic Planning
• Process Design
• Commercial Insurance
• Customer Retention
• Customer Service
• Insurance Brokerage
• Businessowners
• Process Improvement
• Bop
• Insurance
• Underwriting
• Insurance Agency Management
• Risk Management
• Team Building
• Process Management
• Property & Casualty Insurance
• Business Planning
• Customer Relations