Hub International appoints Samuel Garvey to lead commercial lines analytics

HUB International  has appointed Samuel Garvey as Commercial Lines Analytics Practice Leader, expanding its data and analytics capabilities across the U.S. and Canada.

Based in Denver, Garvey will help develop proprietary analytics tools and processes to support commercial lines brokers with risk analysis, program structure, retention strategies, loss projections, and total cost of risk. He will work across HUB’s commercial lines teams to embed analytics into new business and client retention efforts.

Garvey joins HUB from an independent insurance brokerage, where he served as vice president of analytics and team lead, overseeing actuarial, captive, and catastrophe modeling functions while helping develop a commercial insurtech platform. Earlier in his career, he led surplus lines pricing strategies at a global brokerage firm and worked as a catastrophe risk analyst at a global reinsurance advisory firm.

Garvey earned a BBA in Actuarial Science and Risk Management & Insurance from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and became a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS) in 2024.

The appointment follows HUB’s broader push to strengthen its analytics capabilities for commercial insurance, alternative risk, and captive programs.