The MEMIC Group's President and CEO John Leonard has been re-elected by the ACORD Board of Directors as the 2012 Chair. Lawrence Blakeman of MetLife was also re-elected as the Board's Vice-Chair. The announcements were made by ACORD's President and CEO Gregory A. Maciag.
John Leonard
Chair |
Lawrence Blakeman,
Vice-Chair |
Leonard is President and CEO of Maine Employers' Mutual Insurance Company (MEMIC), based in Portland, ME, and MEMIC Indemnity Company, with offices in Manchester, NH. He began with MEMIC in 1993, the company's first year, after a lengthy career with The Travelers, where he led the Commercial Lines Agency Marketing and Underwriting Division.
He is a former President of the American Association of State Compensation Insurance Funds (AASCIF) and Chairman of its Executive Committee. Leonard is also the current Chair of the Board of Directors for the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) and is a member of its Compensation and Nominating/Governance Committees. Previously, he served as a member of the National Workers' Compensation Reinsurance Pool Board.
Currently, he also sits on the Boards of Directors of MEMIC, MEMIC Indemnity Company, the Maine State Chamber of Commerce and the Pine Tree Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He received the Distinguished Citizen Award presented by the Pine Tree Council in 2001, and in 2003 was inducted into the Maine Business Hall of Fame. In addition, he serves on the Board of the American Society of Workers' Comp Professionals, Inc. (AMCOMP). He was the 2008 recipient of the Legends Award conferred on him by this organization.
Lawrence (Larry) E. Blakeman is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer in MetLife's Information Technology Group supporting the recently formed U.S. Business organization. In 2007, he was appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Individual Business IT where he led information technology and operations for MetLife's Individual Business organizations. In 2008, he assumed the additional responsibility for the Auto & Home organization bringing together all IT support for the retail business under his leadership. In 2006, he took on responsibility for MetLife's enterprise data management and enterprise architecture functions.
Blakeman joined MetLife in 1996 as a Vice President and Client Relations Executive in the business services group, responsible for providing IT services and support to the financial management organization. In 1998, he took on responsibility for enterprise-wide financial systems, as well as responsibility for support of Institutional Business and Individual Business financial systems. He assumed additional responsibility for corporate actuarial systems and the enterprise reporting group in 2000. A full listing of the 2012 Board of Directors along with photos and biographies is available on the ACORD website.