Houston – McGriff, one of the leading full-service retail insurance brokers in the U.S., announced today it has hired David Garrett as an Executive Vice President and Texas Practice Leader for the firm’s Executive Risk Advisors (ERA) division.
Garrett joins McGriff with more than 20 years of experience as an underwriter and broker working with large multinational companies, primarily in Energy, Power, Real Estate, Retail/Wholesale and Private Equity. His most recent experience with a large, global insurance broker was managing an executive liability specialty practice with over $400M in premium volume. David has relationships with all major executive liability insurers and has experience in all executive liability lines of coverage, including D&O, Cyber, EPL, Fiduciary, E&O, and other specialty products.
In this new role, Garrett will manage all aspects of McGriff’s Texas ERA practice which includes colleagues in Houston, Dallas, Chicago, and Denver.
“We’re thrilled to announce the addition of David Garrett to lead our already considerable Texas team within Executive Risk Advisors,” said David Sellars, co-leader of McGriff’s Executive Risk Advisors division. “David’s vast experience and reputation in the Texas market will drive continued success in this territory.”
A licensed property and casualty insurance broker, Garrett has won multiple Risk & Insurance awards and is a regular speaker at industry events. He earned his bachelor’s in business administration in finance from The University of Texas at Austin. Garrett can be reached at david.garrett@mcgriff.com or (713) 273-2631.
Made up of specialists in executive, professional, cyber, and transactional risk, McGriff’s Executive Risk Advisors group includes more than 70 professionals in Atlanta, Birmingham, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, and New York City.
A subsidiary of Truist Insurance Holdings, Inc. McGriff Insurance Services, LLC is a full-service insurance broker providing risk management and insurance solutions to clients across the United States. The firm’s coverages include commercial property and casualty, corporate bonding and surety services, cyber, management liability, captives, and alternative risk transfer programs, small business, employee benefits, title insurance, personal lines, and life and health. For more information, please visit www.mcgriff.com.
Truist Insurance Holdings, Inc. (opens in a new tab), the sixth-largest insurance broker in the U.S. and seventh-largest in the world, is a subsidiary of Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC). Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, Truist Insurance Holdings operates more than 250 offices through its subsidiaries: McGriff Insurance Services, LLC; CRC Insurance Services, LLC.; Crump Life Insurance Services, LLC.; AmRisc, LLC; and its Insurance Services companies (AFCO Credit Corporation, CAFO Inc., and Kensington Vanguard Land Services, LLC). To learn more, visit www.truistinsurance.com.
