Paul Semanski

Founder & CEO

Summary of Qualifications

Co-led Numerous Product Launches

• Co-led or acted as a key driver in numerous “first ever” product rollouts, including the industry’s first Identify Theft policy, Travelers ClickSM (online surety bond issuance), The Wrap® (modular executive liability policy), eBond (online executive liability premium indications), and AgentHQ (agency web portal).

Mergers & Acquisitions / Change Management

• Part of due diligence teams when Travelers considered acquiring Merritt Syndicate (second largest Lloyds Syndicate at that time).

• Drove the internal and external communications and marketing strategies for numerous mergers/acquisitions, and organizational redesign/BPO initiatives, including Travelers’ acquisitions of Aetna, Reliance Surety, St. Paul Surety and the St. Paul FPS Division.

Innovation & Technology

• Selected as first Account Executive to pilot market and sell Travelers’ Client Access Risk Management (CARMA) system – the first online claim information system ever offered by an insurance company.

• First Manager in the history of Travelers to hire an Underwriter to work out of their home.

• Vigorously lobbied to have Travelers Specialty chosen as the division to be profiled during the debut of the first ever Travelers public website.

• Led the first business team in Travelers to custom design specifications for Autonomy Interwoven, a tool allowing business users to manage their own web content without dependence on the IT department.

Account Executive for National / High Profile Accounts

• Insurance Clients – Agway (Southern States Cooperative), Bally Technologies, ConAgra Foods (Healthy Choice, Hunt’s, Swiss Miss), Newell Rubbermaid (Graco, Levolor, Sharpie), Illinois Tool Works, and Walgreen Co.

• Manufacturing Clients – Bausch & Lomb, Gerber Scientific.

Marketing and Underwriting of Insurance and Related Services 

• Insurance – National Account Retrospectively Rated Plans, Umbrella & Excess, Healthcare/Medical Malpractice Liability, Professional Liability, Management Liability, E&S/Specialty, Surety, ID Theft, Cyber Risk.

• Services – Claim, Risk Management, Web-based Transactions, Policy Issuance, Reinsurance Brokerage.

Distributor Management

Insurance

• Managed diverse distribution systems, including direct sales force, retail agents, wholesale brokers, program administrators, managing general agents, reinsurers, and consultants.

• Developed and chaired the first ever Producer Council for the Travelers Bond division.

Manufacturing

• Work with pet retail store owners and managers countrywide, providing sales, marketing and merchandising support.

Marketing Career Timeline

• N-Gage Brand, LLC - Marketing Lead - December 2018-Present

• ThoughtBlazers LLC – Founder & CEO – October 2013–Present

• IFG (Formerly Burlington Insurance & Guilford Specialty) – Assoc. CMO, CMO, March 2012–October 2013

• Travelers (26 yrs) – Underwriter, A/E, Underwriting Dir., Dir. of Marketing, 1979–1984, 1990–1998, 1999–2012

• The Hartford (Trumbull Services Div.) – Dir. of Sales & Marketing, 1998–1999

• Minet Re – Reinsurance Broker, 1988–1990

• Identification Products Corp. – Sales Representative, 1984–1988