WTW bolsters corporate risk & broking with three strategic hires
Global brokerage WTW has hired three strategic new leaders within its private equity and transactional solutions team.
The new roles include Daniel Kesack as director of contingent solutions, Shirley Chin as head of tax insurance, and Steven Kolos as director of transactional solutions.
The addition of Kesack aims to deepens WTW’s contingent risk practice, bringing technical intellectual property expertise to the contingent risk solutions group. Chin brings new product ideas within the tax insurance space, with an extensive legal background. Kolos has deep transactional legal experience in addition to industry experience with natural resources, which aligns with the Industry Vertical Division (IVD) within Corporate Risk & Broking, North America, (CRB NA), WTW.
Kesack joins WTW from the Woodsford Group, where he served as the lead underwriter for the intellectual property litigation investigation team. He brings more than 10 years of technical experience, having previously served as a patent litigator at both Radulescu LLP, and Weil, Gotshal, and Manges LLP.
Chin has more than 25 years of legal experience to WTW, spanning the private, public, government and non-profit sectors. Most recently, she worked for more than nine years as an energy tax attorney, serving as the vice president of Tax at Sunrun, a residential solar, storage, and energy services company. She also worked at the IRS Office of chief counsel, large business and international division, along with working as a tax law attorney at two major NY law firms.
Kolos has more than 18 years of transactional legal experience in the private sector. He joins WTW, Corporate Risk & Broking, North America, (CRB NA) from Kinder Morgan, where he most recently served as assistant general counsel. Prior to Kinder Morgan, Kolos served as in-house counsel to Howard Midstream Energy Partners LLC, and Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation (Now, Coterra Energy Inc). He began his legal career as an Associate Attorney with Locke, Liddell, & Sapp, LLP in Houston, Texas.
Mark Rusas, Industry Vertical Leader, Private Equity and Transaction Solutions, CRB NA, WTW, said: “I am thrilled to welcome this trio of deep technical experts within their particular areas of contingent risk. I believe this demonstrates our focus on deepening the team with the industry’s leading technical talent. I am delighted to welcome such depth to an already well-based team within CRB NA.”
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