Old Republic Risk Management (ORRM) announces several leadership updates, including the promotions of Paul Carleton, John Lapreay and Chris Weber. Paul Carleton takes on additional responsibilities as executive vice president and chief client officer. This expanded role reflects his focus on client engagement and strategy. Carleton previously serves as executive vice president of business development at ORRM, a role he has held since January 2021. With more than 17 years at ORRM, Carleton has broad experience as an underwriter, broker, producer and manager. He specialises in large retention primary casualty programmes for Fortune 1000 size companies and affinity captive programmes. Before joining ORRM, he was a managing director in the casualty practice at Marsh. His earlier career includes positions at Wausau Insurance, Alexander & Alexander and Nationwide Insurance. In further updates, John Lapreay and Chris Weber are promoted to senior vice president of business development from their previous roles as senior vice president, account executive. In these new positions, Lapreay and Weber take on additional responsibilities to drive business development and lead new initiatives to strengthen the firm’s growth efforts. Lapreay joined ORRM in 2016 as vice president, account executive, before being promoted to senior vice president in September 2020. Based in New York, he is responsible for producing, underwriting and servicing national account clients interested in large retention casualty programmes. He previously spent 24 years at Marsh and began his career as an actuarial analyst at Deloitte. Weber, based in Chicago, serves as senior vice president for the Midwest region since October 2022. He specialises in casualty insurance programmes for large corporations and group captive programmes in the risk management marketplace. Weber’s extensive industry background includes tenure as a managing director at Marsh and vice president at Benfield. He also held underwriting roles at General Reinsurance Corporation, Kemper and AIG.
