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ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of The ACE Group of Companies, announced the appointment of Richard Wagner as senior vice president and branch manager for ACE Risk Management. Based in San Francisco, Wagner will have overall responsibility for overseeing branch operations for the Northwest region of the country, managing new business development and underwriting activities, and serving large account customers for ACE Risk Management.

With more than 25 years of risk management and underwriting experience in the insurance arena with particular emphasis on serving the regional large-risk marketplace, Wagner joins ACE from Aon Risk Services, where he most recently served as director/relationship manager in Aon’s Risk Management Practice, located in its San Francisco office. He previously held a variety of leadership positions in the large-risk field operations arena with Royal & SunAlliance, Marsh Risk & Insurance Services, and Home Group Insurance.