SLK Global Solutions has added a vice president of business development to strengthen its Insurance Solutions team, the company announced.
SLK said Ken Fries will oversee the growth of the company’s property and casualty insurance as well as its lender-placed insurance solutions.
“Ken has an extensive background with the insurance industry and shares our principles of delivering business transformative solutions in this space,” SLK Executive Vice President Larry Compton said in a release. “I am thrilled that Ken has joined our team and his vast experience will definitely propel growth in our insurance solutions business.”
Fries also will be responsible for strategically growing SLK’s customer base of insurance carriers and managing general agents and brokers. He has more than three decades of insurance experience and most recently served as president of Realogy Holdings Corp.’s Castle Edge Insurance Agency.
“I am confident Ken - with his extensive expertise in the insurance industry - will help us strengthen our suite of offerings for the insurance vertical and help us drive even more value to insurance companies and our existing customers,” SLK President Alok Datta said.
Fries also is a licensed property and casualty insurance agent and once owned and operated an independent insurance agency in Connecticut.
“This is a great opportunity to help insurance companies and agents enhance operational efficiency, deliver superior customer experience and reduce their operational expenses by using SLK’s suite of business process services, automation technologies including RPA, data and analytics and its platform solution for Compliance/QC automation,” Fries said. “I’m excited to be a part of this vibrant team that is constantly innovating to offer the best business solutions to customers, and this provides me with a great opportunity to develop new strategies and design new solutions to help insurance companies achieve operational excellence and deliver a superior customer experience.”