Who We Are
We are a team of wholesale insurance specialists dedicated to the success of our trading partners and the clients they serve.
We understand complex industries and the challenge to secure broad, comprehensive coverage for hard-to-place risks. This, combined with our commitment to superior customer service, is what makes us a five-star wholesaler.
OUR MISSION
Worldwide Facilities delivers innovative insurance solutions to our business partners by providing superior customer service with the highest level of ethics and integrity.
Established in 1970, our team of insurance specialists has access to virtually every specialty domestic and international insurance market.
Much of our growth has been organic, specifically outpacing the overall industry averages. We have a laser focus on continually increasing our value propositions through specialization and collaboration.
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Worldwide Facilities continues to innovate in the Property and Casualty wholesale insurance space.
ACQUISITIONS
Sloan Mason Insurance Services, a wholesale insurance broker specializing in coverage placements for the energy and energy related businesses. Paul Mason and his team joined Worldwide Facilities in 2016.
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Founded to be one of the nation's premier specialty insurance program management firms, we offer commercial transportation-related insurance programs catering to the needs of retail insurance agents across the country. We offer a full line of products designed for specialty classes of haulers.
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Tennant Risk Services, a division of Worldwide Facilities, is a national wholesale insurance broker and underwriting manager specializing in the placement of professional liability and specialty insurance coverage. Our focused expertise, broad carrier relationships, exceptional service and exclusive programs provide wholesale market alternatives to agents and brokers in the underwriting and placement of specialty insurance including: - Professional Liability (Errors and Omissions or E&O) - Directors and Officers (D&O) - Employment Practices Liability (EPL) - Cyber Risk Insurance - Specialty Products We look forward to solving your client's specialty insurance needs.
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We provide comprehensive coverage solutions through expert brokering and by leveraging our long‐standing carrier relationships. Our focus is one of total commitment to our retail clients and markets with a culture driven by the pursuit of professionalism and client success. We partner with retail producers to understand their needs, client dynamics and market forces to provide a unique approach to the insurance program placement.
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We’ve developed several key products specifically to address the unique exposures community associations face, including Directors and Officers Liability, Crime, Umbrella, and Cyber Risk. Our exclusive insurance products are backed by the financial strength of an A-rated, admitted insurance company. We insure everything from condo associations to homeowner associations, co-ops, planned unit developments (PUDs), commercial condos, resorts, and condo hotels. The hallmark of our success is based on the unparalleled underwriting experience and outstanding customer service we offer to retail agents to ensure that community associations and their assets are properly protected when the unexpected happens. Our dedicated staff analyzes each association’s exposures to design a tailored program that best fits their risk profile. We invite you to explore the ways we can help you protect your clients.
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G.J. Sullivan Co. Insurance Services manages specialized insurance programs, holds underwriting pens and brokers individual risks. We operate as wholesale insurance brokers, providing selected retail producers across the United States access to programs and quality markets throughout the world.
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RIC Insurance General Agency is one of the oldest independently owned MGA / Surplus Lines Brokers on the West Coast with over 50 years in business. We believe in deep agency relationships, and we have extensive product and market expertise. We offer Admitted and Non-Admitted products, and we specialize in small to medium-sized commercial and personal insurance risks.
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MHI provides specialty and surplus lines markets for licensed insurance agents in four states and has annual premium volume of approximately $55 million. MHI provides underwriting facilities for all lines of excess and surplus lines business, including personal lines (Texas), professional liability, g eneral liability, property, automobile/garage, workers compensation, inland marine, excess liability and miscellaneous specialty classes. The agency maintains Errors and Omissions coverage of $2,000,000.
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Draco Insurance Solutions provides countrywide Taxicab and Paratransit insurance programs that are custom designed with policyholders’ and agents needs in mind. Core competencies are General Liability, Auto Liability and Auto Physical Damage protection. We are a managing general agency focused on public transportation industry segments.
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Since 1990, Benchmark Management Group has been committed to providing timely and professional service in the handling of specialty and surplus lines. As a managing general agent and wholesale broker, Benchmark has the ability to fit the smallest commercial and/or personal lines account to the largest commercial enterprises. The group’s binding facilities have authorization to quote, bind and issue policies for Property and General Liability.
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Risk Management Advisory Group provides access to independent insurance agents to specialty personal lines, commercial lines and marine and yacht insurance products in all 50 states. We have partner relationships with most well-known, reputable insurance companies, giving your client the power of choice.
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Royal Oak Underwriters (ROU) provides a wide variety of specialty products designed to meet the needs of retail agents in Virginia, Maryland, Washington DC, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Tennessee. ROU specializes in Property, General Liability, Professional Liability, Commercial Auto, Ocean & Inland Marine, and Personal Lines.
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Strategic Underwriting Solutions (SUS), founded in 2006, is entrusted with full underwriting authority for medical stop-loss insurance for high quality insurance and reinsurance markets. In addition to its underwriting capabilities, SUS offers program risk management and product development services to its consulting clients.
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Clearwater Underwriters was established in 1991 to provide a market for retail agents in the placement of excess flood coverage in the state of Florida. Since that time, the company has emerged as a competitive, trustworthy corporation with a diverse product line including flood, professional liability, personal and commercial lines.
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Davis D. MooreChief Executive Officer Davis Moore began his association with Worldwide Facilities, LLC in 1985, following his graduation from Pepperdine University in Southern California. He completed a one year underwriting program with First State Insurance Company in New York followed by a one year program in London, England with the Hogg Robinson Group, working in various aspects of the Lloyd’s of London insurance market.
Upon his return from London in 1985, Mr. Moore became a broker for Worldwide Facilities and became President in 1992. He is now Chief Executive Officer and serves on the Board of Managers for Worldwide Facilities.
Mr. Moore holds a B. S. degree in Business Administration from Pepperdine University and a Certificate in Risk and Insurance from the College of Insurance in New York.
Associations:
- California Surplus Lines Association Executive Committee – 2004-2014 – Past Director and Chairman
- Wholesale Specialty Insurance Association (WSIA) – 2012-2017 – Past Director and currently serves on the WSIA Executive Committee as Secretary
- Young Presidents Association (YPO) – 2004-2012
- YPO Gold – 2012-Present
Ronald S. AustinPresident Ron Austin began his career as an underwriter with Aetna Casualty & Surety in 1979. Beginning in 1984, he spent 13 years with General Star before leaving as Senior Vice President, member of the Board of Directors and head of primary casualty operations.
In 1997 Ron started Caliber One, an excess and surplus lines insurer, for PMA Capital Corporation, a publicly traded insurance holding company. He was President of Caliber One until its sale in 2002. Since then he has been involved in the start-up of a wholesale brokerage operation in Pennsylvania and the attempted formation of a new excess and surplus lines insurance company.
He joined Worldwide Facilities as Senior Vice President in November of 2004. He was appointed Executive Vice President in 2006, Chief Operating Officer in 2007 and President in 2014. He serves as a member of the company’s Board of Managers.
Mr. Austin received his B.S. from the University of Connecticut.
John GalavizChief Financial Officer John Galaviz has served as the Chief Financial Officer of Worldwide Facilities since October 2017. Prior to joining Worldwide, Mr. Galaviz was the Chief Financial Officer for Answer Financial, a technology-driven, national personal lines agency wholly-owned by Allstate. Mr. Galaviz has also served as Vice President of Corporate Development and Capital Markets for Symetra Financial and spent several years as an investment banker with Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers.
Mr. Galaviz received his MBA from Stanford University and his BA from the University of Michigan.
Brad PerilmanSr. EVP, Mergers & Acquisitions As part of the executive management team, Brad Perilman leads Worldwide Facilities’ M&A activities. He is responsible for transaction sourcing, strategic and financial analysis, diligence management and assisting with the development and implementation of integration plans.
Perilman joined Worldwide with over 18 years of global (re)insurance industry experience. Prior to joining Worldwide Facilities, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of Atlas General Holdings, LLC, a leading, full-service program administrator. Previously, Perilman served as Director at Aon Securities and Benfield Advisory, where he was responsible for the execution of merger and acquisition transactions and capital raisings.
Education: University of Rochester, B.A. Economics & Political Science, Cum Laude
Eric StuckmanPresident of Brokerage Eric Stuckman joined Worldwide Facilities in 2006 as a Casualty Broker. In 2010 he was appointed Vice President, followed by Senior Vice President in 2013 and Casualty Manager in 2015. Eric has served as President – Worldwide Brokerage Division since October 2018 and also serves as a Board Member.
Mr. Stuckman is a graduate of the University of California Berkeley and received a certificate in Risk and Insurance from St. John’s University.
Hank HaldemanPresident of Programs Hank Haldeman came to Worldwide Facilities as part of the Sullivan Group acquisition in April, 2018. At Sullivan, Hank ran the Wholesale Brokerage, MGA and Program operations, and at Worldwide Facilities he is now responsible for all Programs. As such, essentially all lines and industries are included within his focus.
Mr. Haldeman began his insurance career in 1980 as a wholesale broker with Stewart Smith West, where he became Vice President and Director. Prior to joining the Sullivan Group in 1997, he served as Chief Operating Officer at Henry Ward Johnson & Co.
Hank graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.A. in Political Science.
Gary KitchenPresident of MGA 
John BaranGeneral Counsel John Baran is a graduate of The University of Southern California’s International Relations and Law School programs. He was admitted to the California Bar in 1980 and started his professional career with the law firm of Iverson Yoakum Papiano & Hatch. John became a partner with the law firm in 1986, and in 1988 he joined the accounting firm of Arthur Young as in-house counsel. Arthur Young merged with Ernst & Whinney in the summer of 1989. John handled contract, training, employment law and human resource matters during his career with Ernst & Young. He was promoted to partner while at the firm. John subsequently took early retirement from Ernst & Young and moved to Colorado to take a position with the Denver Public School District as Deputy General Counsel. John stayed with the School District until the fall of 2010.
John has been happily married for over 41 years. He and his wife Laurie have been blessed to have four children, two daughter in-laws and three grandchildren.
