Our Management Team

At Echelon, we are a dynamic and diverse team, striving to become the pre-eminent provider of niche insurance products in the Canadian market.

Echelon’s leadership team possesses expertise in niche and specialty product lines.  Using their entrepreneurial spirit, they respond to the needs of insured’s in underserved market segments.  By creating innovative products, Echelon brings value to the insurance market while staying focused on servicing clients, brokers and agents.

Echelon Management:

Executive Team

Lead Director - Paul F. Little
Executive Chairman - Douglas E. McIntyre (biography)
Chief Executive Officer - Mark Sylvia (biography)
President and Chief Operating Officer - George Kalopsis (biography)
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer - Hemraj Singh (biography)
Executive Vice President, Personal Lines Division - John A. Czerwinski (biography)

Operations Team

Vice President, Automobile Underwriting - Stephen R. Steele (biography)
Vice President, Claims - Robert J. Fuller (biography)
Vice President, Niche Products Division - Michael Rocchi (biography)
Vice President, Human Resources - Ingrid Wilson (biography)

Director, Accident & Health Products, Niche Products Division – Gail Cooper

Underwriting Manager, Personal Lines Division - Joseph Poljak
Business Development Manager, Personal Lines Division - Len Bruno
Communications Manager, Personal Lines Division - Zahir A. Moosa
Branch Manager, Quebec – Yvon Tremblay

Claims Manager, Property - Jeff Coulson
Claims Manager, Automobile - Chris Norton
Claims Manager, Quebec - Franca Vitulli