American Bankers Insurance Group Leadership

Bob Lonergan joined Assurant in 2012 and is currently the Chief Strategy Officer of Assurant, Inc. and a member of the Company’s Management Committee. Prior to his appointment as chief strategy officer, Bob served as SVP of Growth and Innovation and founded the Growth Investing team. Prior to that role, Bob was a VP and established the M&A sourcing team. Before joining Assurant, Bob worked at Bain & Company, Inc. where he helped start and grow the company’s private equity practice in Atlanta. Bob began his career at Credit Suisse First Boston working as an M&A analyst. Bob holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Economics from Davidson College.

Francesca Luthi is executive vice president, chief communication and marketing officer of Assurant and a member of the Company’s Management Committee. In this role, she oversees all aspects of Assurant’s global marketing and brand strategy, internal and external communication, community relations and investor relations activities. Most recently, she served as senior vice president, investor relations, marketing and communication. In that role, Ms. Luthi has led the communication strategy for all of Assurant’s strategic business initiatives and the Company’s corporate realignment. Before joining Assurant in 2012, Ms. Luthi was senior vice president of corporate communication and investor relations at Accretive Health. Previously, she held senior-level investor relations and communication roles at BearingPoint and Accenture, where she was recognized for enhancing brand awareness, expanding the global shareholder base and overseeing the repositioning of those businesses. During her tenure, Accenture was recognized with “Best IR Team in the IT Services Industry” by Institutional Investor magazine for three consecutive years. Earlier in her career, Ms. Luthi helped establish the investor relations department at Omnicom Group after serving as a financial analyst in the Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley. Ms. Luthi received a Bachelor of Science degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

Gene Mergelmeyer is president and chief executive officer of Assurant Specialty Property. He will be appointed Assurant’s chief operating officer, effective July 1, 2016. As COO, he will be responsible for ensuring a coordinated approach across the Housing and Lifestyle markets and improving execution to drive long-term, profitable growth. Appointed to his current role at Assurant Specialty Property in 2007, Mr. Mergelmeyer has overseen the business segment’s organic growth as well as the addition of new capabilities to its risk management service offerings and expansion into adjacent businesses within the mortgage and multifamily housing industries. Under his leadership, Assurant Specialty Property has more than doubled its revenue since 2006. In partnership with financial institutions, property managers, manufactured home sellers and other leading businesses, Assurant Specialty Property provides services including insurance monitoring, exposure management and lender-placed insurance, renters insurance, manufactured housing insurance, homeowners insurance and flood insurance, as well as appraisal and property preservation services.

Richard Dziadzio is executive vice president, chief financial officer for Assurant, Inc. and a member of the company’s Management Committee. In this role, Mr. Dziadzio oversees Assurant’s global finance operation and has responsibility for the business segment finance teams, asset management and tax functions.

Reporting to Assurant’s CEO, Mr. Dziadzio is responsible for leading and integrating the company’s global finance organization, working in close alignment with Assurant’s operations and risk functions. He has helped to guide the transformation of the company’s finance organization, ensuring its coordinated approach in both the housing and lifestyle markets, across the company’s geographic footprint and in alignment with the operations and risk functions to drive long-term, profitable growth.

Before joining Assurant, Mr. Dziadzio was CFO of QBE North America. Prior to that, Mr. Dziadzio served as CFO for ANV, a global specialty insurance company. From 1994 to 2012, he held a series of positions of increasing responsibility at AXA Group and was named CFO for AXA Equitable Life Insurance and AXA Financial in 2007.

Mr. Dziadzio holds a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD in Fontainbleau, France and received his bachelor’s degree in economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Robyn Price Stonehill is executive vice president, chief human resource officer of Assurant, Inc., leading the human resources function for the enterprise. Throughout her 16-year career at Assurant, Ms. Price Stonehill has held a variety of leadership roles related to compensation, retirement, health and welfare, and other human resources functions. In her role, Ms. Price Stonehill focuses on enabling Assurant’s talent in support of the company’s business strategy with a strong focus of diversity and inclusion, learning and development, enterprise talent development and performance management. As senior vice president, compensation, benefits and shared services from 2011 to 2014, Ms. Price Stonehill set the vision and design of the Total Rewards program and restructured Assurant’s talent acquisition processes, placing greater focus on improving the job candidate experience. Ms. Price Stonehill reshaped Assurant’s pension and benefits architecture to improve cost efficiency and increase value to employees while maintaining the competitive benefits needed to attract and retain talent. Under her leadership, employees’ 401(k) participation rose from 55 to more than 93 percent.