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A Deserving Six
We had many highly qualified applicants vying for the Risk InnovatorTM award this year so we decided to cite a few of the best who weren't selected for the award.
The following six people deserve to be recognized for their diligent risk management work.
Nonprofit Emily Cummins
Ever wonder how the NRA has become so powerful and effective? Maybe you ought to thank Emily Cummins who keeps the organization focused on high-dollar contributions, those of $50,000 or more. To do that, she consolidated the traditionally siloed tax, insurance and risk functions in her organization. She even added fund-raising risk management to the organization's strategic risk management approach. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aviation Susan Emerson General Manager, Workers' Compensation and Disability Claims Management, Delta Air Lines Inc. Susan Emerson is the visionary leader behind the continued evolution of Delta's comprehensive workers' compensation and disability program. The jobs many Delta employees perform daily are physically demanding. In the face of these challenges, Emerson and her team started the HealthCentral initiative.Launched as a pilot program at Delta's hub in the Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta, HealthCentral allows employees to receive athletic training and physical therapy onsite so they can immediately address work-related stresses before they escalate into disabling injuries. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technology Eric Robinson Vice President of Special Projects and Business Development, CHSI Technologies Eric Robinson led the development and launch of CHSI Connections®Management System, which helps managers of alternative risk transfer vehicles--such as insurance captives, self-insured organizations, risk pools, and risk retention groups--to track coverage, policies, and member information. As such, it is a unique technology product specifically designed for the alternative risk transfer market. In the past, many products relied on multiple systems, databases and spreadsheets, as well as manual, paper-based processes to collect and manage data. As a result, alternative risk transfer administration was often costly, time-consuming, labor-intensive, and fraught with errors. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technology Aaron Shapiro Executive Vice President, Origami Risk Aaron Shapiro has helped lead a change in the risk management industry's expectations of the role of risk management software for collaboration between risk managers, brokers and financial officers. He was convinced that a RMIS system can and should serve as the collaborative platform for all parties to work in sync. For 20 years, RMIS systems typically came up short of serving as a reporting engine to provide data used in external spreadsheet models for critical processes like renewals, calculation and allocation of true cost of risk, and board level analysis. Shapiro led Origami's product team to develop tools to help fill these gaps. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manufacturing Laurie Solomon Director of Risk Management, The Coca-Cola Company On the verge of her 2010 policy renewals, Laurie Solomon was handed a challenge that would have tested the mettle of any risk manager. She learned that the Coca-Cola Co. was on the verge of acquiring Coca-Cola Enterprises in a $12 billion deal, but nobody at her company could talk about it. Making do, she sprung into action and assembled her team to see how her company's risk profile would change. The two companies had entirely different approaches to risk financing. Coca-Cola's risk management strength was risk financing and insurance procurement. Coca-Cola Enterprises' risk team was strong in workers' compensation and automobile liability claims. Solomon pulled the two teams together to put their mutual interests first to mitigate risks. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public Sector Bruce Wollschlager President & CEO, Connecticut Interlocal Risk Management Agency Bruce Wollschlager came to the rescue of several municipal organizations by creating a risk pool for municipalities and school districts in Connecticut. The agency, under Wollschlager's direction, has been able to achieve $21 million in medical cost savings and pass the savings onto its member owners. Return-to-work, driver safety, subrogation recovery and litigation management are some of the categories in which the Connecticut Interlocal Risk Management Agency has been able to serve its members. September 15, 2011 Copyright 2011© LRP Publications |
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