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26 August 2021Insurance

Incline P&C Group hires 'top-tier talent' for leadership team

Incline P&C Group, a US insurance programme market services firm, has unveiled a series of new hires to support its future growth strategy.

Sheel Patel will join the company as chief financial officer, and Sameer Khan as chief risk officer. Additionally, Cesar Gregorio will join as controller and Allen Halbrook has been named chief legal officer.

Patel joins Incline P&C with over 20 years of various experience in financial management and business leadership strategy. She previously served as CFO for Covariance Capital Management, a $2.3 billion investment firm of TIAA, and Simmons & Company, an energy-focused investment bank. She was also CFO of Houston Endowment, a $1.8 billion private foundation and spent more than 10 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers in several offices including Silicon Valley, Austin, Houston and Paris, France and serving public and private companies across multiple industries and sizes.

Khan brings over 20 years of experience in attest and advisory services, including delivery of complex business transformation projects for Fortune 100 companies. Most recently, he has focused on supporting a broad range of strategic, financial and risk management initiatives within the insurance industry, including aligning compliance risks to business objectives and implementing enterprise view of risk, using The United States Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) standards.

Gregorio has over 10 years of accounting experience with eight years public accounting experience including assurance services, financial audit, reviews and compilations, healthcare assurance services and tax preparation services and two years of industry financial reporting. Previously, Gregorio served as financial reporting manager at Citizens and assurance senior at BDO USA.

Halbrook previously served as general counsel of Incline P&C Group.

Chris McClellan, president and chief executive officer of Incline P&C, said: “We are thrilled to be adding top-tier talent to the Incline P&C team. I have no doubt these team members will be instrumental to our growth in the coming years.”

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