AmTrust Title Insurance Co. named Marianne Mathieu, a title industry professional with more than 20 years of real estate experience, as vice president, New York State agency manager, reporting directly to Jason Gordon, president of AmTrust Title.
Based in AmTrust’s Lower Manhattan headquarters, Mathieu will broadly focus on new business development and improving and maintaining existing customer relations, among a host of other responsibilities.
“A key tactic in our goal to establish an agency title insurance foothold nationwide is to hire the best and brightest talent in the industry in designated markets,” Gordon said, who added expanding business throughout the greater New York metropolitan area is crucial to that strategy because of the volume of transactions regularly being negotiated in the region through title insurance agents.
“We are delighted to welcome Marianne aboard,” Gordon continued. “Highly self-motivated and an excellent communicator, she has a proven track record in attracting new business, and in helping existing customers enhance profit margins through technology and operating efficiencies, to name a few. She will hit the ground running in New York state, a market which accounts for some of the largest commercial transactions and is among the highest sales volumes in the country.”
Immediately prior to joining AmTrust, Mathieu served as a vice president, for the NYS Agency Unit of Fidelity National Title Group, and earlier with Chicago Title Insurance Co., both in the New York metro area. Before that, she held the same post with Old Republic Title Insurance Co. in Atlanta, and from the mid ’80s to late ’90 s, she worked for a wide variety of real estate-related companies, in various capacities including account management, operations, financial planning and foreclosures.
Mathieu is the current president of the New York State Land Title Association and is treasurer and member of the executive board of Commercial Real Estate Women New York.
She was awarded the American Land Title Association’s National Title Professional designation in 2013. She was the first, and still only, New York title industry professional to hold that designation.