There’s Always Opportunity in Insurance
Sills presented the keynote address at the Target Markets 2004 National Summit. He is known for being in on the ground floor of Executive Risk. A key to the success of Executive Risk, according
to Sills, was the quality of people in the organization. Looking back at the Chubb acquisition of Executive Risk, Sills notes that insuance companies aren’t as innovative as they could be. Creative, entrepreneurial companies, he says, will have plenty of opportunities to “fill the loose bricks” of inefficiency within an industry.
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