Jim Romanelli has been appointed chair of the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation's Northeast division's board of directors. Romanelli currently serves as senior vice president, New York City branch manager at CNA. EFI Global appointed Juan Carlos Araiza vice president of the large loss service line. His prior work includes failure investigations of a wide variety of buildings, transportation, water and power facilities in the United States, South America, Europe and Asia. Derrick D. Cobey has been appointed chief technology officer at RegEd, a provider of enterprise regulatory compliance solutions to banks, broker-dealers, insurance companies and brokers. He joins RegEd from hCentive, where he was chief product officer and general manager. Risk Strategies announced that Tracy Hoffman and Matthew Smith have been promoted to executive vice president of its national health care practice. Previously, both Hoffman and Smith served as senior vice president within the organization. The Collision Industry Electronic Commerce's board of trustees elected the following officers for 2020: |

• Chairwoman: Kim DeVallance Caron, Enterprise Holdings
• Vice chair: Jeff Schroder, Car-part.com
• Treasurer: Michael Naoom, Safelite Solutions
• Secretary: Greg Best, California Casualty Management Company

Distinguished Programs announced the following appointments: |

• Susan Merisko - regional sales executive for Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming
• Emily Zaino - Florida regional sales executive

Christopher Bromiley has joined AmWINS Insurance Brokerage of California in Los Angeles as a vice president and casualty broker. Prior to joining AmWINS, he spent almost two decades at multiple wholesale brokerage firms, including RT Specialty and CRC Insurance Services. Newfront Insurance announced Garth Hamilton has joined the company as chief sales officer. Before joining Newfront, Hamilton was chief sales officer and property/casualty market leader at HUB. Randy Fricke has been hired as a sales agent at AAdvantage Insurance Group. He has more than 29 years of insurance industry experience, including 14 years owning and operating his own independent agency. Aon plc appointed Richard Weil as its new U.S. health care vertical leader. He previously held leadership roles at several healthcare-related organizations, including BFC Advisors LLC, HC Wisdom LLC and Evolent Health. Troy Mette has been appointed vice president and branch manager for CNA's Albuquerque and Phoenix branches. Most recently, Mette ran the national sales practice as vice president of business development for American Technologies Inc. Texas House of Representatives Abel Herrero, J.M. Lozano, Geanie Morrison and Ed Thompson have been appointed to serve on two oversight boards that will make recommendations for future legislation on the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association. Mike Convertino has joined Arceo as chief security officer. He previously served as the former chief information security officer at Twitter, Crowdstrike and F5 Networks, Andrew Kudera has been appointed executive vice president and group chief actuary at Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited, effective Feb. 3. Prior to managing his own consulting firm, he served as executive vice president and group chief actuary at Validus Group from 2010 to 2019. One Call Claims LLC announced two promotions and two additions to its executive management team: |

• Kristi Smoot - promoted to president
• Tonya Magalei - promoted to vice president of operations
• Pamela Reed - vice president of business development
• Todd Farmer - vice president of claims/IT

Topa Insurance Company announced the following promotions; |

• Kelly Yates - vice president, claims
• Tracy Tillinghast - assistant vice president of information technology

MS Amlin announced the appointments of four senior leaders within the specialty business: |

• John Roberts-West - head of property
• Jason Herriott - head of crisis management
• Laurence Humberstone - head of marine
• Julian Samuel - head of natural resources

Related: People on the move in the P&C insurance industry: Jan. 24, 2020