Ben Ward

Results-driven Senior Manager with a passion for data and information analysis, critical thinking, risk evaluation, portfolio management, decision making, underwriting discipline and task execution. Forward-thinking underwriting professional with decades of experience underwriting and pricing primary, buffer, excess and complex shared and layered accounts. Skilled at developing and implementing profitable guidelines for catastrophe perils, high hazard risks and a wide variety of E&S classes. Extensive knowledge of many of the most widely used underwriting and modeling tools including AIR, RMS, CATNET, Nathan Risk Suite, Prometrix, MSB and RiskMeter. A Go-To subject matter expert who has provided training for many critical underwriting topics. Excellent at consistently balancing top-line and bottom-line performance goals. Used a combination of marketing, sales and underwriting expertise to build relationships with producers and profitably grow the Southeast territory from $5.2 mil in 2016 to nearly $70 mil YE 2022, while helping the business unit maintain an average 71% combined ratio. Enjoy collaborating with internal and external stakeholders and building teams for success.