Wayne E. McOwen, ARM, PLC Senior Vice President for Government Affairs and Industry Relations

As Senior Vice President for Government Affairs and Industry Relations, Wayne McOwen is responsible for leading GUARD’s regulatory, legislative, and industry affairs activities. Wayne is actively involved in the process on many different levels, including participation on key industry boards and committees as well as in his capacities as a registered federal lobbyist and as a registered lobbyist in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. In the past, he has not only been successful in getting our opinions heard, he has contributed wording to documents that resulted in legislative and regulatory change and has frequently provided testimony on issues before state and Congressional committees.

Now with the GUARD family for more than two decades, Wayne previously served as Vice President of a Vermont-based captive management company and performed related duties as Production Manager of an affiliated retail insurance agency. He spent the first decade of his insurance career with Commercial Union and rose to the position of Branch Manager before leaving to become Vice President/Partner of Reynolds, McOwen, & Smith, Inc., a Florida retail insurance agency.

Wayne’s professional involvements include serving on the board (and as past Chair) of the New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board (NYCIRB); as current Chair of the Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau (PCRB) Board; as Chair of the PCRB Compensation Subcommittee; as past Chair of the Delaware Compensation Rating Bureau (DCRB) Board; and as immediate past Chair of both the New York Insurance Association (NYIA) and District of Columbia Insurance Federation (DCIF). He continues to be an active NYIA and Massachusetts Insurance Federation, Inc. board member, and he holds the following roles with the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI): past Chair of the Workers’ Compensation Committee; the Washington Reps Issues Strategy Committee; the Solvency Committee; Legal and Government Affairs Committee; and the Terrorism Risk Alternatives Task Force. He is a former member of the board of the Maryland Property & Casualty Insurance Guaranty Corporation. In addition, Wayne is active with the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) and is a past member of the board of governors for the National Workers’ Compensation Reinsurance Pool (NWCRP) as well as the Residual Market Advisory Committee and the Operations, Litigation, and Audit (past Chair) committees of that organization. A member of the Insurance Institute of Michigan (IIM) and the Illinois Insurance Association (IIA), he is a past member of the Steering Committee of the Workers’ Compensation Terrorism Pool Working Group and initiated the Terrorism Information and Education Study Group (TIES). He is a current member of the board of directors of Strategic Services on Unemployment and Workers’ Compensation (UWC), a national business advocacy association, and is a member of the Insurance Federation of New York (IFNY). He is a past member of the board of the Insurance Education Council (IEC) of the National Council of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) and is a member of the PA House Whip’s Regional Advisory Council. He is active with the American League of Lobbyists (ALL) in Washington, D.C.

A graduate of the University of Miami with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, Wayne pursued graduate studies at Suffolk College in Boston. He attained an Associate in Risk Management (ARM) designation through the Insurance Institute of America and the Professional Lobbyist Certification (PLC) designation through the American League of Lobbyists (ALL). He is an alumnus of the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina, and of Leadership Pennsylvania, a selective program through which participants explore statewide political, social, and economic issues.
 

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