Great American Insurance Group has promoted Michael E. Sullivan Jr. to executive vice president and David L. Thompson Jr. to senior vice president within its property and casualty (“P&C”) operations.
In his new role, Mr. Sullivan will serve as the reporting officer for Great American's environmental division, Great American Custom, and Great American Professional Risk Insurance Services, in addition to his current reporting responsibilities for Republic Indemnity, Strategic Comp, and Summit.
Mr. Sullivan has 25 years of insurance experience. He began his insurance career with Great American's former commercial division in 1991 as a workers' compensation product manager. He left the company in 1998 in conjunction with the sale of Great American's commercial division to Ohio Casualty Group (now part of Liberty Mutual). While at Ohio Casualty, he held various roles, including senior vice president of commercial lines. He rejoined Great American in 2007, most recently serving as senior vice president.
Mr. Sullivan holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech and an M.B.A. from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
The company said that Mr. Thompson will assume expanded reporting responsibilities, in addition to his role as reporting officer for Great American's specialty human services and trucking divisions as well as the P&C group's predictive analytics function. With this promotion, he also will have reporting responsibilities for Great American's alternative markets, excess liability, and public sector divisions.
Mr. Thompson began his career with Great American in 2006 and has held various positions within the P&C group, including divisional president of Great American's agribusiness division. He was promoted to divisional group president within its P&C operations in 2014.
Mr. Thompson earned a B.A. in international relations and economics from Wheaton College.
Victoria Spears
Victoria Prussen Spears is senior vice president of Meyerowitz Communications Inc., a law firm marketing communications consulting company. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Brooklyn Law School, Ms. Spears was an attorney at a leading New York City law firm before joining Meyerowitz Communications. She may be contacted at [email protected].