Brenda Shelly

Current Responsibilities
Brenda Shelly is a Senior Client Advisor, FINPRO, Northeast Zone, based in New York. She is responsible for driving client results for all financial insurance lines and claims management for F500, IPO and M&A organizations. Brenda is a seasoned broker, client advisor and business development professional with 36 years of D&O and other professional lines experience; 20 years with Marsh. She is dedicated to serving our clients and teams while working creatively, collaboratively and relentlessly to exceed client expectations.

Experience
Prior to her current role, Brenda was National FINPRO Leader, Canada where she led a dynamic team of Management Liability experts serving clients across Canada. Her responsibilities included achieving new business and client retention targets, creating operational efficiencies, enhancing the colleague experience to drive exceptional client results and managing the financial insurance lines and claims management for F500, IPO and M&A organizations.

Before going to Canada, Brenda served for five years in the New York office as Marsh’s D&O Product Leader, Chairman of FINPRO’s Global Advisory Board and its Global Content Leader. Prior to that, she was FINPRO’s Pacific Bay Area Practice Leader, Pacific North Growth Leader, Technology Leader and National IPO Leader. She has also served in corporate roles for Marsh, including Global Head of Client Engagement and Global IMPACT Leader.

Brenda also spent seven years at Willis Towers Watson, where for three years she was Director, Client Advocacy for North America, and prior to that, Western Region Practice Leader for FINEX. Her first 10 years in the insurance business were spent as an underwriting manager for Chubb and Lloyd’s of London managing general agent, SPMI.

Education

BA, New York University
Executive Program, Digital Transformation for Organizations, MIT – Sloan School of Management

Affiliations
Named in the inaugural designation of Power Brokers by Risk & Insurance Magazine.