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For years social media has been viewed as a threat to companies instead of a resource — but these executives think the tides may be turning.

Steve Prymas has over twenty years of Professional Liability experience. He was previously the Vice President, Specialty Lines Manager and Global Chief Underwriting Officer of Cyber for Gen Re where he was charged with setting strategy and growing specialty lines across Treaty and Facultative reinsurance. While at The Hartford, Steve was responsible for strategic direction, underwriting staff, and P&L of The Hartford’s management & professional liability business. His experience also includes the introduction of predictive modeling, objective risk tiering, third party data proxies, online quoting and automated cross-selling. He also chaired The Hartford's enterprise-wide Cyber Working Group.

In addition to his roles at HFP and Gen Re, Steve has spoken at and chaired several PLUS and Advisen events.

Steve’s passion for insurance started at the early age of 13 when he made change for homeowners’ payments at the petty cash register of a local insurance agency.

Steve is a graduate of Hamilton College and member of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society.

The February jobs report on Friday is forecast to show average hourly earnings advanced another 0.5% last month.

Joel is Senior Director, P&C Demand for MediaAlpha, the leading customer acquisition platform in the insurance industry. In this role, Joel leads the client-facing team that works with P&C advertisers to profitably acquire customers at scale, ensuring campaigns are highly efficient and meet client objectives.

Prior to joining MediaAlpha, Joel spent six years with Liberty Mutual, most recently as Senior Director, Marketing. Joel holds an MBA and an MS in Information Systems from Boston University.

The drop in claims is consistent with a strong labor market recovering from the omicron variant, which forced some businesses to close.

Amidst increasing uncertainty driven by the pandemic, employers need to find new ways to build trust with employees around their benefits.

Hybrid employees are almost twice as likely to feel energized by their work than their full-time counterparts.

John Mackowiak is chief business development officer at Advyzon, a cloud-based platform that combines portfolio management, customizable performance reporting, trading and rebalancing, client web portals, client relationship management (CRM), client billing, and document storage.

John leads the sales and service effort and contributes to development of the Advyzon platform. Prior to working at Advyzon, he spent 12 years at Morningstar, most recently as product manager for Morningstar Office.