This award was established in 1988 by the IRUA Board of Directors to honor individuals for exemplary service to the Association. The award is named in memory of Mr. Roy G. Nelson, one of the original organizers and first Chairman of the Association’s Education Committee.
Mr. Nelson had a long and distinguished career in reinsurance. He held various underwriting and executive positions with General Re and Skandia America prior to joining Johnson-Higgins/Willis Faber (USA) as its President. He died in March of 1988 after a long and heroic battle with cancer.
Recipients of the Roy G. Nelson Memorial Award
2018
Stanley N. Plant
Munich Reinsurance America
2015
Candice Magee
Farmers Mutual Hail Co. of Iowa
2015
Douglas Rarig
Holborn Corporation
2010
Jeremy R. Wallis
Mapfre Re
2008
Matt Rose
Axiom Intermdediaries, Inc.
2007
Paul Walther
Reinsurance Directions, Inc.
2006
Michelle J. Mahoney
Dorinco Reinsurance Company
2004
Mary K. Clancy
Intermediaries & Reinsurance Underwriters Association
2003
Robin Kelly
PMA Re
2002
Judith S. Vogel, CPCU, ARe
St. Paul Re
2001
Mark W. Christie
PXRE Reinsurance Company
1994
David Gustafson
Tokio Re Corporation
1994
Claude Lilly
Lilly – Associates
1993
Gerald Radke
Phoenix Reinsurance Company
1988
Robert C. Reinarz, Consultant
Atlantic Management Services
