InVEST® is pleased to announce it has appointed David C. Marlett, a finance, banking and insurance professor at Appalachian State University Walker College of Business in Boone, North Carolina, to its national board.
Marlett currently holds the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina distinguished professorship and has served as chair of the Appalachian State University Walker College of Business Department of Finance, Banking and Insurance for eight years. Appointed by the Speaker of the North Carolina General Assembly to the Joint Select Study Committee on Potential Impact of Major Hurricane on the Insurance Industry in North Carolina, Marlett served for eight years as editor for the CPCU eJournal and as Brantley Risk and Insurance Center director.
“David brings a wealth of experience and expertise to the InVEST leadership,” says Robert G. Slocum, InVEST board chair and president of The Slocum Agency, Inc., an independent agency in Warwick, Rhode Island. “We look forward to working with him and drawing from his expertise as our academic advisor.”
Prior to entering the school’s doctoral program, Marlett earned a bachelor of science at Florida State University and worked as a commercial lines underwriter for USF&G in Tampa. His doctoral dissertation focused on residual markets and catastrophe financing programs and has since been published more than 20 times in academic and peer-reviewed journals.
Marlett replaces Larry Pistell, senior associate director at the Center for Professional Education at St. John’s University’s School of Risk Management in New York City, as the academic advisor on the InVEST board. Pistell served on the InVEST board for the past 10 years, during which time he provided research on the aging insurance workforce, participated in “War for Talent” panels at InVEST workshops and helped form the relationship with Virtual Enterprises International to start using InVEST commercial lines resources in its student business simulation.