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Executive Management Roundtable Speakers

Stephanie Gould Rabin, Senior Vice President Corporate Strategy, Holborn

Stephanie Gould Rabin is a senior strategy & operations executive with more than 25 years in the insurance, reinsurance, insurtech and professional services spaces. She is currently senior vice president and head of corporate strategy at Holborn Corporation. Gould Rabin helps to define, design, and implement a wide array of strategic and cross-functional solutions for both clients and the firm. Her unique combination of business acumen, people/organizational focus, and technical skills provide a valuable opportunity to design solutions that align actions with strategic vision. This may include combining the non-technical and technical side of enterprise risk management, designing new organizational processes to effect behavioral changes to achieve key business strategies, coaching on best approaches for rating agency upgrades, and identifying / developing ready-to-use insurtech in support of critical client needs.

She joined Holborn from Aspen Insurance, where she was senior vice president and head of operations. Prior to that, Gould Rabin was a partner in Aon’s M&A / Business Transformation Advisory solutions. She was also managing director at Aon Benfield, where she led the New York and Latin American analytics teams. Gould Rabin also held leadership positions at Guy Carpenter & Co., Inc., Preferred Insurance Capital Consultants (PICC) and the Insurance Services Office (ISO).

Stephanie earned a B.S. in mathematics and statistics from McGill University, Montreal and received her M.A. in industrial-organizational psychology from New York University. She is also an Associate in the Casualty Actuarial Society.

Marc Gyimesi, Senior Search Consultant, The Carlisle Group

Marc Gyimesi, CSAM, is a senior consultant with The Carlisle Group – an executive search and consulting firm based in Pennsylvania. Since starting in 2004 Gyimesi has been responsible for placing over 700 candidates within the clients he has represented.

Gyimesi has been consistently ranked as one of the premier executive recruiters in the insurance space. He has handled consulting engagements with mutual insurance companies, publically traded companies, and privately held organizations on topics such as succession planning, compensation analysis, employee engagement, organizational development, and position profile creation.

Gyimesi has been featured as the guest speaker for numerous regional insurance trade groups, A.M. Best, Demotech, and has been an integral contributor at several president/CEO & human resource executive roundtables. He speaks on topics ranging from the labor market, current economic climate, board governance, and succession planning to using technology in order to attract talent.

Marc’s tenure in the industry along with a real-time understanding of the insurance marketplace brings significant advantage to the client’s he has been fortunate to represent.

Jonathan Weir, Managing Partner, Weir Financial Resources

Jonathan Weir is an accomplished and innovative financial professional. His practice is focused on protecting and enhancing corporate earnings; protecting corporate and individual assets; and benefiting executives and other successful individuals through supplemental savings and retirement plans.

Weir prides himself on continual market research, allowing for contemporary planning, products, technology, compliance and servicing for his clients. Process driven and results-oriented, Jon is an effective planner, communicator, educator and leader. Specialties include institutional life and disability insurance analysis, sourcing, implementation and servicing; executive & director benefit plan design, implementation, financing and servicing; progressive plans design for recruiting, retaining, rewarding and retiring executives and key employees.

His clients vary, yet most of his time is spent with financial institutions, healthcare and professional service companies. He also provides supplemental savings, asset protection and wealth transfer solutions to business owners and successful individuals.
Jon earned his BA from Boston University and his JD* with Tax Certification from the University at Buffalo School of Law. *Licensed, not practicing.

Brian Ruggeberg, Ph.D., Partner, Kincentric

Brian Ruggeberg has nearly 30 years of consulting experience and has been involved in the development and implementation of various assessment and selection, leadership assessment and development, performance management, succession management, and training programs. His areas of expertise include job analysis and competency modeling; design and validation of assessment and selection programs; design, conduct, and evaluation of training programs; design and implementation of performance management/appraisal systems; survey design and conduct; and leadership assessment and development, succession management, and executive coaching.

In addition, Ruggeberg has over 20 years of executive coaching experience and has coached leaders at all organizational levels from front-line supervisors to CEOs and corporate boards. He has coached individuals across a wide variety of industries and his coaching typically focuses on leadership development, career development, teamwork, interpersonal dynamics, and behavioral change. He has experience in several different industry sectors including healthcare, pharmaceutical, government, technology, telecom, finance, insurance, manufacturing, hospitality/restaurant, education, transportation, and utilities.

Prior to joining Kincentric in July 2019 as part of Aon’s sale of its Leadership, Culture and Engagement, and HR Advisory practices to Spencer Stuart, Ruggeberg served as the Talent Enablement leader for Aon’s overall Talent practice, the co-leader of the National Staffing and Development group, and the Northeast regional practice leader for the overall Human Capital practice of Aon Consulting. In addition, he has served as an executive coach and assessment professional for a multitude of organizations. Key clients include Ahold Delhaize, Microsoft, Darden, Penske, American Express, Chick-fil-A, Procter & Gamble, Walmart, Nestle-Purina, Texas Mutual, Sentry, Q2 Solutions, Lovesac, FedEx, Walgreens, The Port Authority of NY&NJ, CryoLife, and General Atomics. Before joining Aon in 1996, He served as an independent consultant and worked with organizations such as Bell Atlantic; BellSouth; Canon Virginia, Inc.; Norfolk Southern Corp.; and the Office of Personnel Management.

Ruggeberg graduated summa cum laude with a BA in psychology from Cornell College and earned  an MS in psychology and a PhD in industrial-organizational psychology from Old Dominion University. He is an active member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Society for Industrial-Organization Psychology (SIOP), and was the 2002-2003  President of the Metropolitan New York Association of Applied Psychology (METRO). He is also a founding member of the I/O  Corporate Advisory Board for Hofstra University and the Corporate Advisory Board for Farmingdale State College SUNY, has  contributed to various book chapters and journal articles, and has conducted more than 60 presentations at professional conferences.