Leading P&C insurer The
Hartford has appointed its new vice president and head of sales & distribution who will be responsible for improving ties with the company’s top business partners.
Melinda Thompson, will be reporting to Hartford president Doug Elliot while working with the company’s P&C and group benefits sales leadership teams to drive growth across the businesses.
Elliot described Thompson as “a strong sales and underwriting leader with a long track record of success” in the company.
“The achievement of our business and financial objectives requires strong and productive relationships with independent agents and brokers,” said Elliot.
“I am confident that she will be a great partner to our sales leaders and distribution partners as we look to broaden and deepen our relationships with the firms we rely on to represent us in the marketplace.”
Thompson joined Hartford in 1998 as an underwriter in the middle market business.
Since then, she has held positions of increasing responsibility in sales and underwriting across company’s middle market, small commercial and personal lines businesses.
Most recently, Thompson served as regional vice president of the Hartford office in Charlotte, where she led the middle market field operations in North and South Carolina.
