Slade Joins Warwick-Based Hilb New England as Managing Director of Employee Benefits
Saturday, April 04, 2020
The Hilb Group of New England, a leading commercial insurance, employee benefits, and HR solutions firm located in Warwick, announced that Sam Slade has joined the company as Managing Director, Employee Benefits. In his new role, Slade will work directly with employer groups as well as lead the Employee Benefits team.
Slade is an industry veteran who has been delivering consultative advice and services for most of his career.
He joins Hilb with extensive experience in all aspects of employee benefits, including underwriting, plan design, communications, compliance, and analytics, with a particular focus on alternative funding and self-insurance.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTMost recently, Slade served as Vice President of the Employer Segment at BCBSRI, where he worked to help the company evolve its self-insured capabilities and realize record growth over the past four years. Previously, he was the Employee Benefits Practice Leader for USI in Rhode Island after selling his own firm, Bluff Head Enterprises, to the company in 2011. Slade’s career started with The Travelers.
“With his passion, demonstrated advocacy and strong track record for assisting employers, we’re thrilled to welcome Sam to our team,” said Rob Calise, National Employee Benefits Practice Leader “His experience will be instrumental in helping clients develop, implement and refine employee benefit programs to best position them for the future.”
About The Hilb Group:
The Hilb Group, based in Richmond, VA, serves companies of all sizes in our core business segments of Property & Casualty Insurance, Risk Management, Employee Benefits, Retirement Services and Human Resources Consulting. With over 1000 associates across 90 offices in 20 states, we are a portfolio company of the global investment firm, The Carlyle Group.
