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The Jacobson Group is a team of diverse and forward-thinking individuals. We bring more than 100 years of collective hands-on industry expertise and valuable marketplace guidance to each assignment. With a strong multinational mix and networks firmly rooted in the global insurance and reinsurance industries, we operate across both the established and emerging markets.
Jacobson is proud to offer our clients a one-team approach to global executive search. Unusual for an executive search firm, we work under one P&L, meaning our clients benefit from partnering with a firm where all individuals have one common goal: to succeed for our clients.
Visit the bios of key members of our team below:
 Lisa Leachman Barrett, SPHR, Engagement Consultant |
Lisa Leachman Barrett, SPHR, serves as an Engagement Consultant for The Jacobson Group. In this role, Lisa partners with insurance organizations to secure the most suitable high caliber executive talent for their leadership assignments.
Lisa provides clients with more than 20 years of human resources, operations, board member and consulting expertise. Her diverse insurance and healthcare career includes carrier, managed care, captive management and brokerage experience. A proven industry human resources executive, she possesses a successful track record in staff recruiting, development, retention and succession planning for the entire spectrum of industry disciplines at all levels. Lisa's functional knowledge also extends into corporate risk management, finance, information systems and plan design/management. This inside perspective translates into executive acquisition strategies that deliver results for her clients’ critical senior-level assignments.
Lisa is actively involved in a number of insurance and human resources organizations, including the Society of Human Resource Management. She attended the University of South Carolina at Columbia, S.C., where she received both her bachelor's degree in business administration and her MBA. She also earned her SPHR (Senior Professional in Human Resources) designation and is a licensed property and casualty agent in her home state.
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| Joyce B. Dunn, CPCU, CIC, CRM, Engagement Consultant |
Joyce B. Dunn is an Engagement Consultant for the The Jacobson Group's executive search assignments. In this role, she manages C-level, Vice President and other executive-level searches exclusively for life, health, property, casualty and reinsurance organizations.
Joyce brings more than 30 years of insurance and business experience to her position. Prior to joining Jacobson, she served in a variety of roles with Canal Insurance in Greenville, S.C., including Vice President of Business Development and Vice President and Chief Underwriting Officer. Her extensive background also includes tenures with Lumber Insurance Companies, the Independent Insurance Agents of Virginia and several years as a retail agent. Joyce's multi-faceted industry experience enables her to provide a valuable insider’s perspective on her clients’ searches.
Active in the insurance industry, Joyce holds the Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation, the Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC) designation, the Certified Risk Manager (CRM) designation and the Professional in Human Resources (PHR) designation. She has also completed a Harvard University executive leadership course, as well as a Dorman Consulting Associates product management course.
Joyce received the Academic Excellence Award in Business from Lander University, Greenwood, S.C., where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in accounting. She has also completed a Masters of Science in Management (MSM) in Risk Management and Insurance from Florida State University.
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| Gregory P. Jacobson, co-Chief Executive Officer |
Gregory P. Jacobson is co-Chief Executive Officer of The Jacobson Group, the leading provider of talent to the insurance industry. Greg has successfully guided the firm through substantial growth over the years, as demonstrated by the company’s recognition as one of the nation’s fastest-growing private staffing firms on multiple occasions.
In addition to overseeing the organization, Greg manages select search assignments for the firm's executive search practice. He has consulted companies internationally in all areas of the life, health, property and casualty insurance communities. He has successfully assisted leading industry organizations in the acquisition of critical senior-level talent including Board Members, CEOs and other C-suite roles.
Greg is an active participant in the insurance community. He contributes to many industry association events, including those of the International Insurance Society (IIS), the Property and Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI), the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC), and the Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA). He is considered an expert on the industry's labor market and is often called upon to share his perspectives on the industry’s talent outlook, human capital strategies, talent acquisition and succession planning. He is a featured columnist in Best’s Review and also contributes his insights with periodicals such as LOMA’s Resource, Reactions, National Underwriter Property and Casualty, and Business Insurance.
Greg is a Board Member of the National Insurance Industry Council for the City of Hope and the Chicago Sinfonietta, the nation’s most diverse orchestra. He graduated from Illinois State University of Normal.
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| Gaëlle Meinguss, Engagement Director |
Gaëlle Meinguss joined Jacobson having spent 10 years working in the Insurance Industry. As an international HR professional, she gained her expertise working for the AXA and AEGON groups of companies, where she was responsible for the recruitment of major senior executive positions.
Gaëlle has a legal background with a French Master's in business law completed at the University of Grenoble, France, and has lived and worked in Singapore and the United States. Gaelle is fluent in French and English.
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| Margaret Resce Milkint, Managing Partner |
Margaret Resce Milkint is Managing Partner of The Jacobson Group. She handles executive management and actuarial searches on a national and international basis in the areas of life, property and casualty, healthcare, reinsurance, and consulting (benefits, life and health, property and casualty) for the organization's retained search practice. She also plays a significant role in the continued development of the entire organization as a member of Jacobson’s Executive Management Team. Margaret is a key player in establishing cross-border relationships and broadening the firm’s global reach.
Margaret joined the firm more than 25 years ago and has successfully completed search engagements including Board of Director members, CEOs, CMOs, CFOs, COOs, CIOs, CROs, Chief Underwriters and Chief Actuaries. Her international search expertise encompasses disciplines such as actuarial, underwriting, risk, finance and investment, legal, IT, sales and marketing, and claims. Prior to her tenure with the firm, she was employed by Allstate Insurance Company of Northbrook, Ill.
Margaret received her bachelor's degree with concentrations in English, French and marketing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She currently serves as a Career Development Speaker for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois. She is the former Chair of the Board of Directors for Easter Seals, DuPage and the Fox Valley Region, and a current Board Member of the Illinois Technology Foundation, focusing on the importance of communication, social media and networking skills. Margaret is also a volunteer instructor for Jobs for Youth, a non-profit organization addressing youth employment. Additionally, Margaret is a member of the Chicago Finance Exchange.
As the co-founder of the Women’s Insurance Networking Group (WING), Margaret is a champion of diversity and equality in leadership in the insurance industry. WING was launched as a platform for networking among the insurance industry’s female leaders and enlightened males, those who understand the importance of diversity and equality in leadership in the insurance industry.
Margaret's expertise on career and recruiting issues is widely-recognized throughout the industry. She was most recently called upon to share her perspectives with Best’s Review, Insurance & Technology, The Actuarial Review, LifeHealthPro, TechDecisions, and Diversity/Careers. She further communicates her insights with the industry through bylined articles; these were most recently featured in Stepping Stone, Riskpertise, and Broker World. Margaret is also called on to speak at many regional and national conferences, including National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC), Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI), Society of Actuaries (SOA) and the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS).
Margaret is based out of the firm’s U.S. Headquarters in Chicago and can be reached at mmilkint@jacobsononline.com or +1 (312) 884 0410.
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| Barbara Schönhofer, Senior Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, Executive Search |
Barbara Schönhofer is Senior Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, Executive Search, for The Jacobson Group. In addition to serving on the firm's Executive Management Team and overseeing the international executive search practice, Barbara manages Board and senior management search assignments.
She has consulted companies internationally in all areas of the life, health, pensions and property and casualty insurance arena. Barbara has successfully assisted leading industry organizations in the acquisition of business critical senior-level talent including Board Members, CEOs and other C-suite roles.
Barbara brings 35 years of executive search and financial services experience to Jacobson. She was the founder of ejsSearch, a talent management consulting firm specializing in strategic executive search for clients in the insurance industry in the UK, Europe and worldwide, and was the driving force behind its recent merger with Jacobson in an effort to provide the industry with much-needed continuity in global executive search.
She was previously a Partner with Korn Ferry International, where she established their London insurance and reinsurance practice. Prior to this, she was Managing Director of Insurance at Stephens Associates, an international financial services executive search firm.
Barbara has been very influential in persuading the UK to look carefully at diversity and from that end was instrumental in setting up TWIN (The Women’s Insurance Network) in collaboration with Peter le Beau.
More recently, Barbara has initiated a club for senior women in the insurance industry, where significant companies host Supper Club events for up to 30 participants. Speakers are sourced by Barbara and the ensuing discussions are far reaching and stimulating. These events, which happen four times a year in the UK are under the patronage of Mary Francis, CBE and NED of Aviva and are open by invitation to senior female executive and non-executives in the insurance industry. These events have also been established in the U.S. in New York and Washington, D.C.; and there are plans to develop them further.
In the past, Barbara was the pioneer and business leader of a major centralized lending business and insurance intermediary working for a leading building society as part of an 18-year financial services career in business leadership, management and development.
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| Patricia Strange, Fulfillment Manager |
Patricia Strange is a Fulfillment Manager with the executive search and selection practice of The Jacobson Group. In this role, Patty is responsible for the direction and supervision of the insurance executive recruiting team which sources, identifies and engages executive-level candidates for retained projects. In addition, she actively recruits and engages individuals as candidates and further facilitates the recruitment process through fulfillment.
Leveraging prior staffing experience, Patty joined the firm in 2008 as a Recruiter. Shortly thereafter, she proved to be an invaluable asset to the firm’s recruiting efforts and was promoted to Fulfillment Manager.
Patty earned a bachelor’s degree in consumer economics and finance from the University of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois.
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