Kathleen Ziegler Joins CopperPoint as Senior Vice President, Operations

Tuesday, August 25, 2020 | 0

CopperPoint Insurance Cos. announced that Kathleen Ziegler has joined the company in a newly created role as senior vice president, operations.

Kathleen Ziegler

Ziegler will be responsible for overseeing business operations, procedures and efficiency to support CopperPoint and its agency/broker partners. She will also be instrumental in integrating operations for the CopperPoint family of insurance companies — CopperPoint, Alaska National and PacificComp, leveraging opportunities to improve the operating platform and shared services approach.

Most recently, Ziegler served as the head of distribution at Blackboard, an AIG-owned technology-focused subsidiary, where she was responsible for developing and managing broker relationships and contributing to the overall build of the middle-market commercial insurance startup.

She began her career at Accenture and progressed to roles of increasing responsibility at Zurich, Marsh and AIG, most notably as head of operations and technology for the U.S. at Marsh, and as northeast regional vice president of Zurich’s commercial market business.

Ziegler served as an executive sponsor for AIG’s Women & Allies Employee Resource Group. She was also on the steering committee of Marsh’s internal women’s group and founded the global women’s network at Zurich in 2007, which is still in place today.

She received a bachelor’s degree in English and French from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s degree in linguistics from the University of Kansas.

CopperPoint Insurance Cos., headquartered in Phoenix, provides workers’ compensation and commercial insurance in 10 western states.