Selective Adds Information Security and Management Execs

The insurance company has promoted two members of its IT staff to the VP level.

Selective Insurance Group, which named a new CIO, Gordon Gaudet, in May, has added two executives to its IT staff.

Robert McKenna has been named SVP of enterprise architecture and information security. McKenna joined Selective in 2003 as an IT network specialist. He last was VP of infrastructure architecture and engineering, a position he was elevated to in 2010.

Eric Thiessen is made VP of information management. Thiessen joined Selective in July 1995 as a programmer. He last was assistant VP, information and business intelligence architecture, a position he was elevated to in 2008.

Selective also named Jeffrey Beck SVP of government and regulatory affairs, Cassie Masone VP of flood operations, and Sean Ritson assistant VP of actuarial pricing.

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