Risk engineer profiles

Andy Ackerson

Andy has been an environment, health and safety (EHS) professional since 2003, serving in various and increasingly complex roles. Before joining Chubb in 2012, Andy managed the EHS processes for a federal government defense contractor, BAE Systems in its Technology Solutions business unit, its research and development arm focusing in part on chemical detection, advanced materials including quantum dots, carbon nanotubes and nano-porous carbon, electronic warfare, wide-area persistent surveillance, and non-lethal warfare. Before BAE Systems, Andy worked as senior risk management consultant for Eastern Alliance Insurance Group, a mono line workers’ compensation carrier. At Eastern, he gained experience managing risk consulting services for traditional accounts, alternative markets, and captive programs. Andy also has experience in the pharmaceutical industry working for Supernus Pharmaceuticals, formerly Shire Laboratories, where he managed the EHS processes with a strong focus on industrial hygiene, control banding, and surrogate active pharmaceutical ingredient monitoring.

Andy is currently a Senior Workers’ Compensation Risk Specialist in the Mid-Atlantic region, working out of the Baltimore, Maryland office. Along with the Mid-Atlantic region Andy regularly supports regions across North America. Day-to-day, Andy is responsible for leadership in workers’ compensation, industrial hygiene, occupational disease, ergonomics and tribometry. Andy also participates in regional and company-wide initiatives related to these topics. Andy supports the Industrial Hygienist mentor program and is a previous facilitator for the property and casualty risk engineer training program, helping to develop the future of Chubb Risk Consulting.  Andy provides training, consultation, and quality assurance to both risk engineers and our Underwriting partners. Andy works closely with Chubb Risk Consulting, Underwriting and Claims to develop and execute service initiatives for a wide range of accounts and insurance coverages, and he also provides assistance with account selection. 

Andy is a member of the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) Chesapeake Chapter and is a member of the national ASSP Ergonomics Practice Specialty. He has developed and presented ergonomics–related webinars for ASSP and has been a speaker at local chapter meetings and at the national ASSP Conference & Expo. Andy is currently the Social Media Chair and Government Affairs Chair for the ASSP Ergonomics Practice Specialty.

Sheila Coppinger

Sheila is currently a Vice President, Chubb Risk Consulting Executive Specialist located in Chubb’s New York City branch. She is responsible for providing client service to major accounts and commercial accounts. She provides technical leadership to the department for Museum and Cultural Institution clients. She has over thirty years of experience improving loss experience and safety efforts within the workplace. Prior to joining Chubb in 1987 she was an analytical chemist for Pall Corporation.

Sheila is a subject matter expert for the New York Region in the areas of Commercial Automobile, Life Safety, General Liability and Workers’ Compensation. She is part of Chubb’s national fleet team and slip, trip and fall team, working to develop client resources and to further promote assessment skills among the Chubb Risk Consulting department.

Her specialty is in assessing risk, influencing mindset, and advising on operational, culture changes, and best practices to prevent disruption and loss of operations, reduce claims, and ensure profitability for both the client and Chubb.

She has presented a wide range of topics at national and international conferences held by the American Society of Safety Professionals, Smithsonian Institute, Northern Ireland Committee on Heritage Disasters, International Foundation for Cultural Property Protection, and the American Alliance of Museums.

She currently represents the insurance industry on the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Technical Committee on Cultural Resources. She is a task group leader responsible for NFPA standard 914. 

Tina Minter

Tina Minter is Vice President, Chubb Risk Consulting Executive Workers’ Compensation Specialist located in Milwaukee, WI. She provides risk engineering assistance and support to large commercial clients. She has over twenty-six years of experience improving loss experience and safety efforts within the workplace and has been employed by Chubb since 1994.

Tina assists Workers’ Compensation clients by providing risk engineering services to address leading loss indicators while assisting clients in proactive risk reduction. She works with clients providing industrial and office ergonomic work assessments, program development and training in an effort to reduce and minimize potential injury exposures. She is part of Chubb’s national ergonomics team, working to develop client resources and to further promote ergonomics skills among the Chubb Risk Consulting department.

Tina has conducted industrial hygiene sampling for numerous contaminants that present significant occupational health hazards to clients and developed control techniques to reduce overexposures.

Tina has presented on a wide range of ergonomics and safety topics at national conferences held by the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) and the Applied Ergonomics Conference (AEC). She is a co-chair of the Programs Committee for the AEC.

Thomas Neale

Thomas, who is an AVP Risk Specialist, began his risk engineering career with Chubb in 1991 in the San Francisco Office and has spent his career supporting clients in Northern California. He enjoys working with clients in all industries, but has established expertise with winery, food processing, social media, and hospitality clients.

In 2006 he was awarded the Workers’ Compensation Specialist designation for the Pacific Region. In this role, he supports Chubb’s larger and more complex clients by reviewing and refining clients’ safety and risk management programs, assessing ergonomic exposures, and performing industrial hygiene monitoring.

Thomas’s leadership responsibilities include supporting the local Chubb Risk Consulting team with training and mentoring while also working with the Chubb Risk Consulting Home Office team, developing resources and training.

In 2018, Thomas was selected to join the National Ergonomics Team. This team directs Chubb’s ergonomics policies, develops internal training and ergonomics resources for our clients. He has led numerous client training sessions and presented at the Applied Ergonomics Conference.

Jennifer Lamas

Jennifer is a Risk Technical Specialist located in Chicago, IL. Jennifer has been a Chubb employee for over ten years and a risk engineer for six years, with a focus on providing best practices on proper body mechanics, slip and fall prevention, safety program development including OSHA training, accident investigation, and claim analysis. 

Jennifer is a well-rounded risk engineer that provides services to clients on property exposures, workers’ compensation, commercial auto and general liability, with added focus on office and industrial ergonomics for the hospitality, manufacturing and professional services industries. Jennifer is responsible for coordinating risk engineering services for Chubb’s multi-location accounts.

Jennifer started her career at Chubb as a Senior Premium Auditor, where she was responsible for conducting insurance premium audits to determine the accuracy of policy classifications and premium calculations.

Jennifer is an active member of the Society of Casualty Safety Engineers and the American Society of Safety Professionals. In addition, she is an Accredited Office Ergonomics Evaluator.

Chris Drobny

Christopher Drobny is a Senior Property Risk Specialist based on Los Angeles, CA, responsible for providing risk engineering assistance and support to large commercial clients. Christopher has over 25 years of commercial insurance experience, evaluating risk and assisting clients with property and fire protection risk mitigation. Christopher has been employed by Chubb since 1997, following the beginning of his loss control career at Industrial Risk Insurers.

Christopher’s current responsibilities are as the senior property specialist assisting large clients on complex property issues, providing risk engineering services at client facilities, providing continuing education to Chubb risk engineers, and developing internal technical guidance.

Christopher is also an FAA licensed pilot for small, unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) using drone technology to assist in water intrusion through roofs and rooftop solar photovoltaic system evaluations.

As a fire protection specialist, Christopher has been a principal technical committee member serving on the National Fire Protection Association 51B Standard for Fire Prevention During Welding, Cutting, and Other Hot Work since 2008.

Christopher regularly provides training and seminars relating to fire protection, having been invited as a guest speaker at insurance brokerages, trade association meetings, and the American Society of Safety Professionals’ annual conference.

Shawn O'Shell

Shawn O’Shell is a Senior Property Risk Specialist based in Phoenix, AZ who is responsible for providing risk engineering assistance and support to commercial clients. Shawn has 34 years of commercial insurance experience evaluating risk and assisting clients with their risk management programs. Shawn has been employed by Chubb since 1986.

Shawn works with large clients on complex property issues, providing risk engineering services that address the primary sources of property loss. For example, services include water fabrication fire protection assessments, ESFR sprinklers and warehouse fire protection, hydraulic oil fire exposures, data center fire protection, hospital fire protection, and rooftop solar arrays.

Shawn provides in-house training and consultation to Chubb Risk Consulting staff team members on a variety of property-based topics, such as fire pumps, water supplies, warehousing fire protection, and combustible dust. Shawn has authored in house technical bulletins that provide assessment guidance to staff members.

Shawn has a regular role in writing, updating, and presenting Chubb Risk Engineering Center fire protection-based curricula, and has been a guest speaker at trade association meetings and at the American Society of Safety Professionals’ (ASSP) annual conference.

Sam Iannucci

Sam Iannucci began his risk engineering career at Chubb in 2008. He spent the beginning of his career with a focus on sprinkler system design and has since pursued property and fire protection loss control as a specialty since 1999.

He became an Executive Field Property Specialist in 2016, responsible for training, development and referrals, and represents the highest level of field authority in North America. In addition, Sam manages the Quality Assurance program for all North America Chubb Risk Consulting.

Sam specializes in property fire protection for educational and commercial facilities. His experience spans many industries, including woodworking, metalworking, light & heavy manufacturing, and higher education. Prior to joining Chubb, Sam worked with PA Lumbermen’s Insurance Company targeting woodworking and construction occupancies. Sam has been a volunteer firefighter for 25 years and has served as his department’s Fire Chief for the last five years. He is a principal technical committee voting member on two codes/standards. He has served on the National Fire Protection Association 72, (Fire Alarm and Signaling Code) and 1620 (Standard for Pre-Incident Planning) since 2016.

Erik Olsen

Erik Olsen is a Senior Vice President, Risk Consulting Property Center of Excellence Leader. He began his risk engineering career in 1999 at Chubb. He spent his early career as a risk engineer for property and casualty survey work ranging from life science to heavy manufacturing accounts. After ten years of general industry field-based risk engineering in the NJ region, Erik became a Senior Property Specialist with a focus on large property risk engineering for the NYC Region. In NYC, he spent the next eight years in the field surveying and servicing the largest property accounts across the five Boroughs.

Erik specializes in property protection risk engineering and complex evaluations for industrial and commercial facilities, and property conservation for large properties and construction. Specific areas of expertise include metalworking, plastic working and printing, hospitals, high-rise, warehousing, and large commercial and residential construction projects.

He became an Executive Property Specialist in 2016, with current responsibilities spearheading global Chubb property engineering technical initiatives ranging from development of technical guidance on existing and emerging issues, fire protection, natural catastrophe and attritional perils, and supporting executive underwriting initiatives.

Erik is actively involved in property risk engineering staff development and supporting customer service solutions. He is one of few regular instructors at the Chubb Risk Engineering Center, where he regularly provides fire protection training for a variety of audiences.

He has been a principal technical committee voting member serving on the National Fire Protection Association 25 Standard for the Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance of Water-Based Fire Protection Systems since 2014.

Jennifer Guerrini

Jenn Guerrini is a Vice President and executive auto specialist in Transportation, as well as the Chair of the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS). She brings 30 years of experience in the insurance industry, with 27 of those years spent at Chubb. In her current position, Jenn manages and provides technical leadership in developing risk selection criteria and underwriting guidelines across all Chubb business units. She plays a key role in enhancing Chubb’s understanding of emerging hazards and collaborates with Corporate Underwriting.

Jenn provides technical leadership to her colleagues in the Chubb Risk Consulting department and clients seeking advice on fleet safety and risk reduction in their operations. Her hands-on experience and support are instrumental for both clients and Chubb. As an Executive Commercial Auto Specialist, she is responsible for implementing Chubb's commercial auto & transportation strategies across North America, including Canada in her role as Transportation Industry Leader.

For the past 17 years, Jenn has also served as a Fleet mentor with the North American Transportation Management Institute (NATMI), helping individuals obtain their Certified Director of Safety (CDS) certification. Additionally, she is a Certified Defensive Driver Instructor and serves on the Board of NETS.

Jenn frequently conducts training sessions and seminars on commercial auto topics for new hires, experienced staff, and underwriters. She is a regular speaker at trade association meetings and the annual fleet benchmark conference hosted by NETS.

Currently, Jenn represents the insurance industry on the ANSI/ASSP Z.15.1 Safe Practices for Motor Vehicle Operations committee and the ANSI/ASSP Z.15.3 Autonomous Vehicle committee.

Jarod Young

Jarod Young is a Commercial Auto Risk Specialist based in Fort Lauderdale, FL. He brings over 20 years of experience in the insurance industry, with five of those years spent at Chubb. Jarod started his career at Liberty Mutual selling commercial property & casualty insurance, and then part of their distribution team when they left the direct market to work through agents and brokers. During his time as an agent, he started risk consulting on his own accounts. Around this time Jarod transitioned into his first full time position safety position as a Loss Control Consultant for Summit Holdings, a mono line workers’ compensation carrier in the southeast. This is where he honed his skills in being able to identify, quantify, and evaluate a company’s risk and hazards and to offer them solutions. Jarod then parlayed those skills into his next position as a Construction Account Specialist at the Hartford. He further expanded his risk consulting acumen by servicing multi-line accounts and multi-billion-dollar construction wrap projects. During this time Jarod became a 3D Driver Trainer, which was a train-the-trainer system for defensive and distracted driving. 

Since joining Chubb in 2020, Jarod has become an Auto Champion, an auto subject matter expert (SME), and a Commercial Auto Specialist. He works with large and complex regulated and non-regulated auto and fleet accounts, providing risk consulting services that address their loss drivers, programming, and executional gaps. Jarod frequently conducts internal and external training sessions and seminars on commercial auto and fleet topics for new and experienced staff risk consultants, underwriters, agents, brokers, and clients. He has also spoken multiple times at the annual Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS) conference. 

Jarod is a member of the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASS) South Florida, Truckload Carriers Association (TCA)/North American Transportation Management Institute (NATMI), Board of Certified Safety professionals (BCSP), and International Risk Management Institute, Inc. (IRMI). He also represents the insurance industry on the ANSI/ASSP Z.15.1 Safe Practices for Motor Vehicle Operations committee and the ANSI/ASSP Z.15.3 Autonomous Vehicle committee. He has earned numerous designations including the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), Construction Risk and Insurance Specialist (CRIS), Transportation Risk and Insurance Professional, and Associate Risk Manager (ARM) from IRMI, Certified Safety Professional (CSP) from BCSP, and Certified Director of Safety (CDS) from NATMI. Jarod is also an OSHA outreach trainer in construction for 10- and 30-hour classes.