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Santa Ana, Calif.-based Yates & Associates announced the promotions of Barbara Parker-Hatch and Alex Zardeneta.

Parker-Hatch was promoted to executive vice president. Formerly she was vice president of operations at Yates. She will continue many of her previous duties, which include company contacts, carrier liaison, investigating and negotiating new markets, and overseeing many of the daily operations of the firm. Parker-Hatch began her insurance career in 1980 as a file clerk at RIC Insurance Services in Anaheim. She became an underwriter at RIC and later joined Yates in 1997 as an underwriter/broker. She was promoted to operations manager and then to vice president of operations.

Alex Zardeneta has been promoted from senior underwriter/broker to manager of underwriting/marketing. Zardeneta will be responsible for new business development and will be a resource to Yates’ commercial underwriting team. Zardeneta began his insurance career in the early 1990s as an underwriting assistant and was an account executive at a large San Diego firm prior to joining Yates & Associates in 2001.

Topics Underwriting