Christopher Ridge Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Interface between the commercial team and insurance brokers in order to meet customer requirements when issuing certificates.• Maintain a close relationship with insurance brokers to ensure that all Kemira’s requirements are supported.• Monitor claims and support the areas related to.• Collect and supply updated risk values for annual policy renewals (Global / Local)• Coordinate the policy premium payments• Support the risk manager to assist the departments to cover all insurance matters, such as analysis of the insurance section of the contract, validation of coverage limits and others.• Assist credit management of blocked orders based on the Credit Policy.• Support credit team to prepare the analysis according to the standards and policies for credit line concession.

West Allis, Wisconsin, United States

• Learned back of house (BOH) and front of house (FOH) operations and how to perform each position. This ranged from food preparation and assembly to order taking, handling customer complaints, and cateringduties.• Underwent the FOH Leadership Development Program to become a team lead and manage FOH shifts.• Led FOH shifts consisting of 7-16 team members at a time.• Managed counting drawers and depositing daily profits and was responsible for counting the safe and noting any inconsistencies.• Trained new employees as part of their onboarding process. This included going over daily tasks and duties when working in specific positions and most importantly adhering to our operator's mission statement.

United States

• Underwrote environmental accounts. This included a combined GL and Environmental policy, commercial auto, commercial excess follow form, contractors pollution liability (CPL), and trade contractors pollution and professional liability policies. • Managed renewal book for complex accounts. In addition to renewals, this included managing any midterm changes and issuing appropriate endorsements as needed. • Communicated risk appetite to brokers.• Collaborated with Distribution, Territory Managers, and other line(s) of business underwriters to target desirable accounts and cross selling opportunities from brokers.• Rapidly evaluated and selected submissions to be underwritten.• Worked with brokers to understand deal structures, terms, and AIG services that best meets clients’ needs.• Negotiated pricing, terms & conditions, and deal structures with brokers and clients.• Maintained risk selection in adherence with product guidelines and for achieving rate, renewal retention, and new business goals.

Atlanta, Georgia

• Negotiated and managed several insurance policy placements, including Inland Marine; contract-specific General Liability, Auto Liability, Umbrella and Garagekeepers Liability for the City of Minneapolis; Railroad Protective Liability; Dietitians Professional Liability, National Flood Insurance.• Directly managed ABM’s Builders Risk insurance program which covers from 10 to 20 large projects at any given time. Project values range from as low as $500K to as high as $42M. • Assisted department Director in creating submissions for and management of ABM’s remaining 150+ insurance policies, including Commercial General Liability, Auto Liability, Workers’ Compensation, Property, Terrorism, Aviation, Cyber, Contractors Pollution, Miscellaneous Professional Liability, Contractors’ Errors & Omissions, Wage & Hour, D&O, Crime, Sexual Misconduct. • Assisted department Director in producing $40M annual insurance premium budget and cost allocation process for all lines of coverage. • Assisted with due diligence and assimilation of more than 20 acquisitions during my tenure, allowing me to gain experience on combination of legal entities and insurance programs.• Assisted in onboarding new employees to familiarize them with existing ABM insurance processes.• Managed certain activities of department Risk Analyst.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Managed ABM surety program activity, including submission of bond requests to ABM’s surety broker, completion of monthly Bond in Force reports and premium allocations to business units. ABM currently has 425 bonds representing over $615M in total liability.• Following large acquisition, assisted with Surety Broker RFP to combine ABM’s two surety programs. • Worked with ABM Shared Services to code invoices and create allocation schedules to have all policy premiums and bond invoices processed timely and correctly.• Collected renewal information for multiple insurance policies including Property, Terrorism, CA XS Earthquake, Inland Marine, Auto Physical Damage, NY For Hire Auto, Local Auto and WC programs in British Columbia and Ontario, Medical E&O for Dietitians, and standalone WC, GL, AL, Umbrella, and Cyber policies for contract-specific insurance program

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• With other Risk Analyst, processed and administered the issuance/revision and renewal of certificates of insurance, automobile identification cards and Workers’ Compensation posting notices. ABM currently issues more than 30,000 certificates of insurance annually. • Began managing ABM’s self-insurance WC programs in CA, IL, MI, OH, OR, WA and the monopolistic WC programs in ND, WY, and PR. This involved completing quarterly/annual filings and renewal applications, notifying the state of organization changes, and adding/removing subsidiaries to each program as needed. • Assisted with policy management by checking binders, policies, and invoices as we received information. • Learned the surety bond program, including how to review bond language in contracts and processing daily bond requests. • Assisted with exposure submissions for ABM’s main casualty renewal (AL, GL, WC, and Umbrella).

Bachelor, Business; Risk Management And Insurance

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