Jim Sipich is a Senior Vice President with CRC, based in San Francisco, where he represents CRC Insurance Services as a leader for the West Coast Property Placement Team. As an organization, CRC coordinates the placement of around $6B in property insurance volume, and Jim brings over three decades of expertise and industry experience to bear in the management of risk associated with natural catastrophe exposures, manuscript contract language, and engineered risks as well as group insurance and pooled risk programs. Colleagues and clients know they can trust Jim to find solid solutions for the most complex of property insurance needs.
Jim graduated from California State University Sacramento with a degree in Finance and initially launched into the insurance industry as an HPR underwriter with Industrial Risk Insurers (now Swiss Re) in 1986. Over the course of his 15 years on the insurance company side of the business he held various property underwriting, sales, and fire protection engineering positions with IRI, GE Risk Solutions, and Kemper. He then moved on to begin his career as an Excess and Surplus Lines Broker joining CRC Group (Tri City Brokerage) in 2001.
Jim and his wife, Karen, make their home in San Francisco, where they enjoyed raising their daughter Jaime, and son, Andrew. Outside the workplace, Jim invests in his local community by serving as an Advisory Board Member and Treasurer for United Cerebral Palsy of North Bay. He has also enjoyed mentoring children with special needs while coaching Challenger Little League.