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Distinguished Service Award

The Board of Directors of AIMU have established a program to acknowledge significant individual contributions to the U.S. Ocean Marine industry particularly those supporting AIMU and its goals. Contributions to be considered for eligibility of this award may include, but not be limited to, the following:

  • Service on AIMU Technical Committee(s) and / or Officer of AIMU;
  • Instructor or Presenter for AIMU Courses and / or Webinars;
  • Instructor for St. John’s (formerly College of Insurance) Marine Insurance Courses;
  • Service as Chair and/or Committee member for the AIMU Seminar or Insurance Day;
  • Service as Chair and/or Committee member for IUMI Conference Planning Committee when hosted in US;
  • Service as contributor to AMIM 121 – Ocean Marine Insurance Program as instructor, exam grader (prior to automated exams), course materials (textbook / workbook), etc.,
  • Service on an IUMI Technical Committee and / or Executive Committee; and,
  • Authorship of articles and public speaking promoting the US Marine Insurance Market and Industries we serve as well as driving thought leadership.

Nominees shall have been employed, at present or previously, by an AIMU member company. The nomination should identify what those contributions have been, with research support from AIMU staff, if necessary.  The Management Committee of AIMU is responsible for voting and selecting recipients each year. Ideally, one or two awards should be presented annually although circumstances may warrant deviation from this number to be agree by Management Committee.

A plaque, designated as the AIMU Distinguished Service Award, will be presented at the annual general meeting.  A second plaque, whose purpose is to serve as an honor roll, will list all recipients.  This latter plaque will be maintained within the offices of AIMU and names of all award winners posted on the AIMU website (see immediately below).

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Winners


1991
Geoffrey C. Jones
George S. Zacharkow
 

1992
Harry S. Keefe
William R. Scarbrough
 

1993
Robert S. Lagattolla
Peter J. Egan
 

1994
Edward K. Carpenter
Richard C. Smith
 

1995
John J. Segreto
 
 

1996
Jean E. Knudsen
Peter A. Curzio
 

1997
Thomas M. Dincecco
Richard T. Yerian (BMUSF)*
 

1998
Joseph F. O'Doherty
Robert R. Savio
 

1999
Wallace Appelson
James M. McCarthy, Jr.
 

2000
Raymond F. Marine
Richard J. Decker
John K. Weber

2001
Daniel R. St. Jacques
Thomas J. Lynch
 

2002
Tim E. Donney
John Cecchi (BMUSF)*
 

2003
James J. McNamara
Sandra Inouye (BMUSF)*
 

2004
Robert C. Gallagher
Richard G. Roenbeck
 

2005
Scott M. Beebe
Peter J. Scrobe
 

2006
Sean M. Dalton
Barry Tarnef
 

2007
George H. Boothby
Robert V. Comegys
Raymond P. Hayden

2008
Michael I. Jacobs
Brian V. Wood
 

2009
Andy Garger
Nancy Zachariades
 

2010
Michelle O'Donovan
Jess B. Millikan
 

2011
Brian Murphy
Kord E. Spielmann
Michael Csorba

2012
Allan Saunders
Kevin M. Meller
 

2013
Stephen W. Gillen
Stephen V. Rible
 

2014
Robert V. Huffert
 
 

2015
Richard DeSimone
 
 

2016
Elizabeth Nittolo
 
 

2017
Sherman Drew
 
 

2018
Les Bogdan
 
 

2019
David Lappe
 
 

2020
Andrew D'Alessio
Bill Lang
 

2021
Daniel McDermott
Lincoln Purdy
 

2022
Tracy Kiffer
 
 

2023
Noreen Graham
John Nicoletti
 

2024
Julie Vogele
J. Michael Falvey
 

2025
Gordon Lewis
  
 

* Board of Marine Underwriters of San Francisco, Inc.