Our Leadership

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John J. Marchioni

John J. Marchioni is Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Selective Insurance Group, Inc.

Mr. Marchioni joined Selective in 1998 as a Government Affairs Specialist. In 2000 he was promoted to Assistant Vice President in Government Affairs, and in 2003 to Vice President, Director of Government Affairs. He was appointed Vice President and Strategic Business Unit Leader in 2004, and Senior Vice President, Director of Personal Lines and Flood in 2005. Mr. Marchioni was promoted to Executive Vice President, Chief Field Operations Officer in October 2007 and President and Chief Operating Officer in 2013. He was President and Chief Executive Officer from February 2020 until May 3, 2022, when John assumed his current role.

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Cyndi Bennett

Cyndi Bennett is Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer at Selective, with responsibility for the company’s human resources strategy, including talent management, benefits, diversity and compensation.

Ms. Bennett joined Selective in 2006 as Compensation Manager, and has held leadership roles of increasing seniority, including Assistant Vice President and Vice President of Compensation. She was promoted to Vice President, Compensation and Benefits in 2012 and assumed her current role in 2020. 

Prior to Selective, Ms. Bennett spent nine years at Prudential Financial, where she served as Director, Compensation for Prudential International Insurance/Investments and prior to that Manager, Compensation for Institutional Insurance.

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Patrick S. Brennan

Patrick S. Brennan is Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer at Selective, with responsibility for accounting, financial reporting and disclosure, financial planning, investments, investor relations, reinsurance, risk management, sustainability, tax, and treasury.

Mr. Brennan joined Selective in 2024. Previously, he spent 18 years at The Progressive Corporation, where he served as Treasurer; Commercial Lines Product Manager; and Senior Manager of Investor Relations. Mr. Brennan also worked at IBM Corporation, where he served in its Treasury department, performing roles focused on funding strategy, foreign exchange strategy, and operations.

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John Bresney

John Bresney is Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer with responsibility for all IT operations at Selective.

Mr. Bresney joined Selective as an intern, then assumed a full-time role as a Senior Application Development Manager in 1994. He grew his career through a series of leadership roles of increasing responsibility, including Assistant Vice President, Enterprise Development Services; Vice President, Infrastructure and Operations; and Vice President, Personal Lines Business Development and Architecture. In 2013, he was named Senior Vice President, Enterprise Application Delivery Services, where he led a series of initiatives that improved the quality and throughput of Selective’s enterprise delivery services. Mr. Bresney was promoted to his current role in 2019.

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Joe Eppers

Joe Eppers is Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer. He oversees the company’s investment portfolio and the investments related to the employee benefit plans.  He is chair of the Management Investment Committee and responsible for constructing and executing the company’s investment strategy, with consideration of risk and projected return implications.  

Mr. Eppers joined Selective in 2015 as Senior Vice President, Chief Investment Officer, with 20 years of professional investment experience. 

Prior to joining Selective, he served as a Director at BlackRock within the Financial Institutions Group, and was previously Senior Vice President of Investments at Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd.

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Brenda Hall

Brenda Hall is Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, Standard Lines. She oversees corporate commercial lines and personal lines underwriting and regional operations.

Ms. Hall joined Selective in 2001 and held several leadership positions including Vice President, Underwriting. She was promoted in 2008 to Senior Vice President, Director of Field Underwriting, and in 2015 to Senior Vice President, Chief Strategic Operations Officer, making her responsible for the development, implementation, and oversight of the company’s strategic plan and the integration of predictive modeling into underwriting operations.

Before joining Selective, Ms. Hall was a Marketing Manager at Westfield Insurance and a Senior Underwriter at Zurich.

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Jeffrey (Jeff) Kamrowski

Jeff Kamrowski is Executive Vice President, MUSIC (Mesa Underwriters Specialty Insurance Company), a subsidiary of Selective Insurance Group, Inc. He has responsibility for overall Excess & Surplus lines (E&S) operations, including advancing profitable growth strategies and improving operational performance. Mr. Kamrowski oversees underwriting practices, marketing initiatives, and strategic alliance-building with brokers and general agents.

Mr. Kamrowski joined Selective in 1988 as a programming analyst, where he gained broad experience across standard and specialty lines insurance operations. He has held a variety of roles of increasing seniority in Business Services, Commercial Lines Underwriting, E&S, and Information Technology. Prior to his current role, Mr. Kamrowski was Senior Vice President, MUSIC. Other corporate leadership roles have included Senior Vice President, Chief Underwriting Officer, Commercial Lines; Senior Vice President of the Business Services Unit and Accounts; Senior Vice President of Applications Development and Business Services; and Senior Vice President of Commercial Underwriting and Operations.

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Paul Kush

Paul Kush is Executive Vice President, Chief Claims Officer, responsible for all Claims and Staff Counsel operations at Selective.

Mr. Kush joined Selective in December 2019 after nine years as the founding Chief Claims Officer for ProSight Specialty Insurance, which he helped lead from start-up to an IPO in 2019.  Prior, Mr. Kush spent more than 27 years at Crum & Forster Insurance Company, progressing through roles of increasing responsibility, including Chief Claims Officer from 2000 to 2009.

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Michael H. Lanza

Michael H. Lanza is Executive Vice President and General Counsel, with oversight for the company's legal department, as well as regulatory, ethics and compliance, and legislative and government affairs functions. He also serves as Selective’s Chief Compliance Officer.

Mr. Lanza joined Selective in 2004 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel, and was promoted to his current role in October 2007. Before that, he was a corporate advisor and consultant and served as Executive Vice President and Corporate Secretary of QuadraMed Corporation, a publicly traded healthcare IT company. Previously, Mr. Lanza was Assistant General Counsel at CIGNA Corporation, where his responsibilities included state government affairs, health care compliance, and international matters. He began his career in private legal practice in Connecticut.

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Rohit Mull

Rohit Mull, Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing and Innovation Officer is responsible for leading the company’s efforts to build brand awareness, deliver customer service excellence, and drive growth through marketing and innovation strategies and capabilities.

Mr. Mull originally joined Selective in 2015, serving as Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer. In 2020, he served as Chief Marketing Officer at Thrivent, before rejoining Selective in 2022. Earlier in his career, Mr. Mull held several senior level positions including Head of Digital, Global Consumer Insurance at AIG and Executive Vice President, Marketing at HDFC Bank.

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Vincent Senia

Vincent Senia, Executive Vice President and Chief Actuary, is responsible for directing the company's actuarial operations, including pricing, reserving and other actuarial analytics. He also plays a key role in the company's strategic and financial planning.

Mr. Senia joined Selective in 2010 as Senior Vice President, Actuarial Reserving and was promoted to his current role in 2017. Prior to Selective, he served as Vice President and Chief Reserving Actuary for Munich Re America and held senior actuarial positions at Crum and Forster and Swiss Re New Markets.