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John Geer

John Geer

John is a founding member of the CCO Group, serving on this panel and as a senior advisor to IRI.

John retired as a Vice President at GEICO in 2009 after seventeen years with the company. During his tenure, he served as AVP and VP Staff Counsel Department Head, as well as VP Claims Department Head and VP of the Site Effectiveness Division of the Internet Business Unit. John also served on the Corporate Board of Directors from 2000 to 2009.

Today, John serves on the North American Supervisory Board of Solera Holdings, Inc. which is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and the Advisory Council for Praxis Consulting, a Subrogation company in Muncie, Indiana.

Prior to joining GEICO, John was an active duty member of the Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps for 24 years. He retired in the grade of Captain, having served as Deputy Assistant Judge Advocate General (Claims and Tort Litigation), Assistant Judge Advocate General (General Law), and Assistant Judge Advocate General (Operations and Management) in his last three assignments. He holds both a B.S. and J.D. from Fordham University, and a M.S. in Forensic Science from George Washington University.

William Breslin

William Breslin

Bill is a founding member of the CCO Group, serving on this panel and as a senior advisor to IRI.

Bills remarkable career includes senior executive roles at multiple top tier insurers, including Prudential, GE Insurance and USAA, where Bill was Chief Claims Officer for over 8 years. Bill is a past Chairman of the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) Board of Governors.

After retiring from USAA, Bill was EVP & COO at Tri-Serve Alliance a start up health care company. Bill currently is Founder at Wenonah Consulting, providing C-level insight to numerous companies and serving on several boards, including Enservio and First Choice Repair Network.

Tom Kaschalk

Tom Kaschalk

Tom is a founding member of the CCO Group and currently serves as a Senior Partner with Insurance Resources.

Tom's 30 year P&C experience includes CCO roles at three companies, Reliant Insurance, Affirmative Insurance and Direct General Insurance. Tom has a proven record of assuming leadership of underperforming business units and improving results. Tom led the design, development and deployment of the Guidewire claim system as CCO of Direct General, which included the conversion of legacy data from the retiring claim system, with no interruption in claims service levels.

In addition to his CCO roles, Tom was National SIU leader for a top 5 personal lines company, with responsibility to internal as well as external fraud. Tom has developed leadership talent in every organization he has led, with many of his former direct reports in positions of significant responsibility, including CCO roles.

Jim Porcari

Jim Porcari

Jim is the founder of Insurance Resources. Jim has 30+ years of experience in the P&C industry, including 12+ years as CCO, most recently as President of Personal Lines Claims for AIG (US).

In addition to numerous due diligence exercises, Jim has been the claims lead during 5 insurers acquisitions and lead the claims team for 7 department integrations. These integrations involved moving from multiple legacy claims systems to a new single integrated claims system, including the conversion of all data from the 5 legacy systems into the new consolidated system.

Currently, Jim sits on the North American Supervisory Board (NASB) of Solera Inc., is on the advisory board for OnSource, Novum Inc., and the board of Homesite Insurance of Georgia. Jim has worked with and advised over 30 companies since founding IRI, including insurers, companies in the insurance support eco-system and Private Equity firms involved in the P&C industry.