PUTTING ON THE RITZ at the TIC Black Tie Dinner

The insurance industry donned its finest for the 45th annual Toronto Insurance Conference Black Tie Dinner recently, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto. Among the guests were (clockwise from top, left to right): Employers Re’s Peter Borst, The Citadel Assurance’s Ernst Notz, The Travellers Casualty & Surety Company’s Brian Divell, RIBO past president Art Despard, Hargraft Schofield’s Lisa Bignell, Aon Reed Stenhouse’s Ron Russell, CGU’s Mark Webb, Willis Canada’s Justin MacGregor and London Guarantee’s Bob Taylor. The head table featured TIC’s executive committee and special guests (from left to right): TIC president Robert Keilty, Mark Webb of CGU (sponsors of guest speaker, comedian Ron James), TIC director Stewart Fudge, IBAC president Kevin Umlah, TIC vice president Tracy McLean, TIC director Justin MacGregor, TIC treasurer Robert Purves, TIC director David Browne, RIBO president Darren Hamilton, TIC director Robert Jones, TIC director Shardie Stevenson, TIC past president John Gelston.