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About Us > Management > Wayne McOwen, ARM, PLC; Senior Vice President
for Government Affairs
and Industry Relations
As Senior Vice President for Government Affairs and Industry
Relations, Wayne McOwen is responsible for leading GUARD’s
regulatory, legislative, and industry affairs activities. Wayne is
actively involved in the process on many different levels, including
participation on key industry boards and committees as well as in
his capacities as a registered federal lobbyist and as a registered
lobbyist in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the District
of Columbia. In the past, he has not only been successful in getting
our opinions heard, he has contributed wording to documents that
resulted in legislative and regulatory change and has frequently
provided testimony on issues before state and Congressional
committees.
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Now with the GUARD family for more than two decades, Wayne
previously served as Vice President of a Vermont-based captive
management company and performed related duties as Production
Manager of an affiliated retail insurance agency. He spent the first
decade of his insurance career with Commercial Union and rose to the
position of Branch Manager before leaving to become Vice
President/Partner of Reynolds, McOwen, & Smith, Inc., a Florida
retail insurance agency.
Wayne’s professional involvements include serving on the board (and
as past Chair) of the New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board (NYCIRB);
as current Chair of the Pennsylvania Compensation Rating Bureau (PCRB)
Board; as Chair of the PCRB Compensation Subcommittee; as past Chair
of the Delaware Compensation Rating Bureau (DCRB) Board; and as
immediate past Chair of both the New York Insurance Association (NYIA)
and District of Columbia Insurance Federation (DCIF). He continues
to be an active NYIA and Massachusetts Insurance Federation, Inc.
board member, and he holds the following roles with the Property
Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI): past Chair of the
Workers’ Compensation Committee; the Washington Reps Issues Strategy
Committee; the Solvency Committee; Legal and Government Affairs
Committee; and the Terrorism Risk Alternatives Task Force. He is a
former member of the board of the Maryland Property & Casualty
Insurance Guaranty Corporation. In addition, Wayne is active with
the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) and is a past
member of the board of governors for the National Workers’
Compensation Reinsurance Pool (NWCRP) as well as the Residual Market
Advisory Committee and the Operations, Litigation, and Audit (past
Chair) committees of that organization. A member of the Insurance
Institute of Michigan (IIM) and the Illinois Insurance Association (IIA),
he is a past member of the Steering Committee of the Workers’
Compensation Terrorism Pool Working Group and initiated the
Terrorism Information and Education Study Group (TIES). He is a
current member of the board of directors of Strategic Services on
Unemployment and Workers’ Compensation (UWC), a national business
advocacy association, and is a member of the Insurance Federation of
New York (IFNY). He is a past member of the board of the Insurance
Education Council (IEC) of the National Council of Insurance
Legislators (NCOIL) and is a member of the PA House Whip’s Regional
Advisory Council. He is active with the American League of Lobbyists
(ALL) in Washington, D.C.
A graduate of the University of Miami with a bachelor’s degree in
business administration, Wayne pursued graduate studies at Suffolk
College in Boston. He attained an Associate in Risk Management (ARM)
designation through the Insurance Institute of America and the
Professional Lobbyist Certification (PLC) designation through the
American League of Lobbyists (ALL). He is an alumnus of the Center
for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina, and of
Leadership Pennsylvania, a selective program through which
participants explore statewide political, social, and economic
issues.
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