IFG Companies has promoted Christopher M. Lewis to executive vice president.
Over the past year, Mr. Lewis has served as IFG's chief risk officer (“CRO”), in which capacity he was responsible for developing and overseeing IFG's risk management policies to ensure that IFG's insurance business risks, operational risks, and financial risks were appropriately monitored and controlled in support of IFG's business goals. In that capacity, he also managed IFG's ceded reinsurance program.
In addition, Mr. Lewis has chaired IFG's systems steering committee and has led initiatives to implement technologies within IFG, including those relating to underwriting desktops, catastrophe modeling, and accumulation management. Finally, he has led the property department in efforts to develop and expand.
“Since joining IFG in early 2014, Chris has been a key and vital member of the IFG leadership team, and we are delighted to recognize his very significant contributions to the progress of our business. From the start, Chris has demonstrated that he has the wisdom, work ethic, and appropriate cautiousness that are ideal for a CRO, while proving to be a sound and thoughtful advisor to all business units,” said Bob Linton, the chairman of IFG Companies.
Mr. Lewis joined IFG from The Hartford Financial Services Group, where, most recently, he had served as senior vice president and enterprise chief insurance risk officer.
Mr. Lewis began his career as a senior economist in the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) for the White House, where he developed option-pricing models for pension insurance, deposit insurance, and other fiscal areas, served on several task forces, drafted legislation for the OMB and the White House, and drafted portions of the president's budget. Thereafter, he moved to the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight as a senior financial analyst. Following government service, he was a senior manager and risk management consultant with Ernst & Young and, thereafter, managing director and global head of advisory services of Fitch Risk Management.
Mr. Lewis holds a B.A. in international finance and an M.A. in economics from the University of Connecticut. He also pursued post-graduate study at Princeton University.
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