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Susan Hecker

Area Executive VP, National Director - Contract Surety, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.

Susan Hecker is Area Executive Vice-President and National Director - Contract Surety for Arthur J. Gallagher’s Construction Practice, and is based in San Francisco In addition to her account executive and management roles within Gallagher, Ms. Hecker is responsible for facilitating surety nationally, including mergers and acquisitions and maintaining national surety relationships Prior to joining Gallagher in 1997 Ms. Hecker spent 20 years with a Top 10 surety operation, departing as the Surety Center Manager for the company’s regional flagship surety operation in San Francisco She attained her CPCU designation in 1989. Within the construction industry, Ms. Hecker was a charter member of the CFMA and served as President of the Surety Association of Tennessee. She is currently a member of The Beavers, a Producer Advisory Board Member for Liberty Mutual Surety and is President of the National Association of Surety Bond Producers (NASBP). Ms. Hecker is also a faculty member of NASBP’s William J. Angell Level II Surety School as well as the John J. Curtin Level III Advanced Surety School, where she was instrumental in development of the curriculum. Ms. Hecker has written many articles and spoken often to construction industry groups on various surety related industry topics. In addition she has represented the surety industry on several panel discussions for IRMI & the AGC Surety Bonding & Construction Risk Management Conference on topics such as the State of the Surety Industry, the Surety Prequalification Process and Ethics in Surety In 2016 Ms. Hecker was awarded the prestigious Golden Beaver Award for Service & Supply to the Heavy Engineering Construction Industry. She resides in Los Altos, California, with her husband, Jeffrey.

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