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Joseph Piekarski
Vice President - Chief Claims Officer
Joseph Piekarski brings over 22 years of insurance claims experience to the Berkley Program Specialists organization. Over his career, Mr. Piekarski has managed exposures that span both commercial and personal insurance across multiple product lines for global corporate, captive, middle market, and small business customers. He also has project management experience through various leadership roles on innovation and process improvement projects. Since joining Berkley Program Specialists in November of 2017, Mr. Piekarski has provided his claims experience, leadership, and insights to our program administrators through his management and oversight of our TPA partners and the implementation of our in-house claims team. Mr. Piekarski is responsible for managing all aspects of our claims from strategic direction to operational excellence, quality management, and analytics. Mr. Piekarski holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Western Illinois University where he graduated with honors.
(630) 210-0422
jpiekarski@berkley-ps.com
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Thomas Manos
Vice President – Claims
Thomas has over 30 years experience in the insurance industry. He began his career handling property and casualty claims in the primary market and has been with Berkley Re more than 20 years. Mr. Manos currently manages the claim group for BRS as well as BRAM facultative claims. Thomas received his undergraduate degree from Syracuse University. He is also a graduate of Fordham University where he earned an MBA.
tmanos@berkleyre.com
tmanos@berkleyre.com
Heath Clark
Assistant Vice President - Claims
Heath brings nearly 20 years of technical claims and management experience to our claim’s organization. A graduate of Palm Beach Atlantic University, Heath started his career in Florida as a field adjuster handling all levels of property loss exposures. During his career Heath has managed teams of large loss field adjusters, CAT operations, and assisted his claims departments with data review and analysis. Heath’s focus is on working with the BRS teams’ custom turnkey solutions (Cyber and Workplace Violence) as well as assisting the entire claims organization where needed.
(630) 210-0399
dclark@berkleyre.com
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Lisandra Sanchez
Assistant Vice President - Claims
Lisandra has over 20 years experience in the insurance industry. She manages both facultative and treaty reinsurance claims. She received her undergraduate degree from Temple University where she studied Risk Management and Insurance.
(203) 658-1586
lsanchez@berkleyre.com
