Roy G. Nelson Memorial Award

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

2024 Ryan Chefalas Cincinnati Re	2007 Paul Walther Reinsurance Directions, Inc.	2001 Mark W. Christie PXRE Reinsurance Company
2018 Stanley N. Plant Munich Reinsurance America	2006 Michelle J. Mahoney Dorinco Reinsurance Company	1994 David Gustafson Tokio Re Corporation
2015 Candice Magee Farmers Mutual Hail Co. of Iowa	2004 Mary K. Clancy Intermediaries & Reinsurance Underwriters Association	1994 Claude Lilly Lilly – Associates
2015 Douglas Rarig Holborn Corporation	2003 Robin Kelly PMA Re	1993 Gerald Radke Phoenix Reinsurance Company
2010 Jeremy R. Wallis Mapfre Re	2002 Judith S. Vogel, CPCU, ARe St. Paul Re	1988 Robert C. Reinarz, Consultant Atlantic Management Services
2008 Matt Rose Axiom Intermdediaries, Inc.