When the chief executive officer of Valiant Insurance responded to a question about near-term goals for his organization recently, “taking a breather” from the process of hiring a team of experienced professionals was high on the list.
“I probably could have given you a much more creative answer earlier in the year, because we were still doing a lot of the building out process at that point,” said Gary Dubois, who heads one of the newest U.S. E&S/specialty operations during a mid-August interview.
“By the end of the second quarter [of 2008], we really reached the end of the first phase of our development. We had the company. We had the right management team in place. The framework for the infrastructure is now there for us,” he said.
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