Background
Christopher Mandel is the founder, president, and managing consultant of
Excellence in Risk Management, LLC, and is an adjunct professor at Florida
State and George Mason Universities (GMU). He is also on the CRO Executive
Development Program Advisory Council at GMU. Mr. Mandel has more than 30 years
in leadership positions and accomplishments in large corporate global risk
management.
Mr. Mandel recently retired from his position as senior vice president of
strategic solutions for Sedgwick, Inc., and as the director of the Sedgwick
Institute, where he was responsible for helping the company reach its strategic
vision of serving the evolving needs of its current and future customers. From
2001–2010, Mr. Mandel was head of enterprise risk management for USAA Group,
where he designed, developed, and led the award-winning enterprise-wide risk
management and corporate insurance centers of excellence. He has been a
long-term senior leader in RIMS, including being elected president in 2002–03,
and was named Risk Manager of the Year in 2004.
Mr. Mandel received his bachelor of science in business management from
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and a master's of
business administration in finance from George Mason University. He is a
frequent industry speaker, teacher, and writer and contributed to the
"Risk Insider" column for Risk and Insurance magazine. He also wrote
on claims
management topics for IRMI.com from 2015 to 2021.