National Workers’ Compensation and Disability 2017

Dave North
President & CEO
Sedgwick


Dave North is Sedgwick’s president and chief executive officer—a position he has held since 1995. Under Dave’s leadership, Sedgwick has grown from a boutique, regional third-party claims administrator to the premier global provider of innovative business solutions in the areas of workers' compensation, disability, absence management, property loss adjusting and more. Sedgwick has more than 15,300 colleagues in over 300 offices in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Ireland who take care of people and organizations by delivering cost-effective claims, productivity, managed care, risk consulting and other services. At the time of its sale to private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in 2014, Sedgwick was valued at $2.4 billion and boasted a remarkable 99% customer retention rate. Dave has over thirty-five years of experience in risk management services. He is a frequent speaker at national and regional industry conferences. In 2016, EY honored Dave with its Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Southeast U.S. Region. He previously developed and taught the American Management Association course on Advanced Risk Management Strategies: Managing the Total Cost of Risk. In 2002, Dave was recognized by Business Insurance as one of the 35 “Rising Stars” in insurance worldwide. And in 2003, he co-authored the book The Art of Self-Insurance. Dave has served on the board of the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute and is past chairman of the board of the Integrated Benefits Institute.

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