Executive Management Team
ASI’s executive management team is responsible for establishing the strategic direction of the Company, creating a long term plan to support the direction, allocating the resources needed to execute the plan, establishing appropriate metric to measure the success of the plan, managing the implementation and execution of the plan and addressing obstacles as they arise.
Joseph D. Scollo, Jr.
President and Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Scollo, who joined American Safety Insurance in 1998, currently serves as President and COO and is responsible for the Company’s U.S. insurance operations. He was previously Executive Vice President from 2003 to 2008, and Senior Vice President of Operations from 1998 to 2003. He also serves as Executive Vice President and COO of the Bermuda-based holding company, American Safety Insurance Holdings, Ltd.
Prior to joining ASI, Mr. Scollo served as Senior Vice President of Operations of United Coastal Insurance Company for nine years.
Mr. Scollo has over 20 years' experience in the insurance industry. He received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Western New England College in 1985 and holds a Certified Public Accountant certificate.
Ambuj Jain
Senior Vice President
Mr. Jain joined American Safety Insurance in 2004, and is responsible for overseeing the underwriting function of the Company’s U.S. product lines. He also participates in the Company’s strategic planning process and integration of acquisitions. He has served as a consultant to the Company’s Executive Management since 1999.
Prior to that, Mr. Jain was Senior Vice President, Marketing and Planning for RCI. He has also served as Senior Manager with Deloitte Consulting, Managing Partner with the WorldMark Group, Inc., and a marketing professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Mr. Jain has more than 20 years of marketing and operations experience. He received his MBA in 1985 and Ph.D. in Marketing and Social Psychology in 1990 from the State University of New York-Buffalo.
Julia Davis
Chief Information Officer
Ms. Davis joined American Safety Insurance in 2008 with more than 20 years of experience in information technology.
Prior to joining ASI, she was with General Electric for 10 years, where she was the Chief Information Officer for the GE Healthcare Financial Services Equipment Finance division and GE Capital’s Business Productivity Solutions division. She also has experience consulting to Fortune 500 companies on strategic technology initiatives and has served as an officer in the United States Air Force.
Ms. Davis received her Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Physics from Lehigh University in 1985 and her Masters of Science degree in Systems Administration from St. Mary’s University in 1988.
Mark W. Haushill
Chief Financial Officer
Mark Haushill joined American Safety Insurance as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer in September, 2009. Mark has over 23 years of experience in property and casualty insurance.
Prior to joining ASI, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Argo Group International, in the management of the Treasury Operations both at USAA and Titan Holdings, Inc. and in the audit practice at KPMG.
Mr. Haushill graduated from Baylor University in Waco, Texas with a BBA in Accounting in 1984 and he is a Certified Public Accountant.
Laurie Raimondi
Vice President, Human Resources
Laurie Raimondi joined American Safety Insurance as Vice President of Human Resources in May 2004. She has over twenty years of property and casualty insurance experience and over thirty years of Human Resources management experience. Prior to joining ASI, Laurie was a management consultant and held various HR management positions with Kemper Insurance.
Ms. Raimondi holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Curry College in Boston. She has earned her Senior Human Resources Professional designation from the Society for Human Resources Management. In addition, she is a certified Corporate Trainer through Developmental Dimension Institute; a Facilitator of Organizational Change through American Society for Training and Development and is a Registered Corporate Coach from the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches.
Matthew Pollak
Vice President Corporate Finance & Accounting
Matt Pollak joined American Safety as Vice President of Corporate Finance & Accounting in February, 2010. Matt has over 17 years of experience in property and casualty insurance.
Prior to joining ASI, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the Excess & Surplus Lines segment of Argo Group International, Builders Insurance Group and Access CoverageCorp. He also held financial management roles with InServe Corporation and RISCORP and in the audit practice at Ernst & Young.
Mr. Pollak graduated from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia with a B.S. in Accounting in 1987 and earned a Masters of Business Administration degree from the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University in 1998. He is a Certified Public Accountant.