Managing director
Ryan Specialty Group
Suzanne Brandt has been with Ryan Specialty Group [RSG] since 2010, serving as managing director for RSG and president of the national property practice for its wholesale arm,
RT Specialty. She is responsible for ensuring continuous development of new products and facilities for RT brokers, and for maintaining long-term carrier relationships both stateside and in London in order to establish exclusive products in the property segment.
Prior to joining RSG, Brandt spent nearly 15 years with CRC, which she joined shortly after the Northridge, California, earthquake in 1994. This led her to many opportunities within the company, such as helping place tough earthquake accounts and developing and underwriting these exposures for its MGA facility. Brandt started her career as an underwriter at the Great American Insurance Company and went on to join Allianz Underwriters, where she became senior underwriter and manager, in charge of large Fortune 500 accounts and national schedules.
As a female leader, Brandt continues to inspire her peers and the next generation of insurance professionals: “She has overcome every possible obstacle a woman in corporate insurance can face, and she has risen above those things and found a way to stay relevant and be impactful by creating new platforms from which to trade – while traveling, chairing meetings, holding board memberships with the YPO Insurance Group, staying fit and being a mother,” says a colleague at RT Specialty. “She has become a great example for senior brokers and a fabulous role model for women getting into the business.”
