USI Names Leonard Chief Financial Officer.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 14, 1999--Bernard H. Mizel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of USI Insurance Services Corp. (USI), announced today that Michael T. Leonard has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. In this capacity, Leonard will have financial oversight for USI and its member companies, and develop and oversee administration and fiscal policies for the organization. Leonard has been Senior Vice President, Administration and Finance, for USI since 1994. Commenting on the appointment, Mizel stated, "I am extremely pleased to announce the promotion of Mike Leonard Michael "Mike" Leonard (born November 30 1947) is an American television journalist presently working for The Today Show on NBC. Leonard has been a feature correspondent for the Today Show for over 20 years, and is known for his stories on everyday life and the unique, creative way to the position of Chief Financial Officer of USI. This promotion reflects Mike's outstanding work for the company since joining us in August 1994. I respect him as a colleague and as a close friend. He is an integral part of the success of USI." Leonard began his insurance career in 1979 with Vaughn Insurance Group, King of Prussia King of Prussia, industrialized suburban area (1990 pop. 18,406), Montgomery co., SE Pa. It has glass and steel fabricating, food processing, printing and publishing, and varied manufacturing (textiles, liquified petroleum gas, water-treatment and electrical , Pa., as Controller and later, as Treasurer. In 1982, he joined Warren Welsh and Rental Insurance Services in Exton, Pa., as Controller. After these firms merged with Inter/National Rental Insurance, a holding company that subsequently became WRIMS WRIMS Water Resource Information Management System (EPA) , Corp., Leonard assumed the position of Treasurer, and later Chief Financial Officer. When WRIMS joined the USI family in August 1994, he joined the USI corporate team as Senior Vice President and National Controller. Leonard holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from the University of Scranton The University of Scranton is a private, co-educational Jesuit university, located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in the northeast region of the state. The school was founded in 1888 by Most Rev. William O'Hara, the first Bishop of Scranton, as St. Thomas College. . He is a CPA (Computer Press Association, Landing, NJ) An earlier membership organization founded in 1983 that promoted excellence in computer journalism. Its annual awards honored outstanding examples in print, broadcast and electronic media. The CPA disbanded in 2000. and a member of the California Society of CPA's. USI is a diversified insurance service firm which offers general and specialty property and casualty insurance, insurance, insurance-related financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , such as employee benefits, third party administration, life insurance and related consulting, and insurance wholesale operations. Founded in 1994, it has grown rapidly through a series of strategic acquisitions and internal growth to become the sixth largest insurance and financial services broker in the U.S., and the tenth largest in the world. Headquartered in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , USI currently operates out of 85 offices in 21 states. |
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