Omar Powell

Biography

Omar J. Powell prides himself on being an inclusion advocate and a future leader within the insurance industry. A Florida native, Omar recently graduated from Howard University where he attained a B.B.A. in Finance with a concentration in Risk Management & Insurance. Being from a Jamaican family, Omar is the first in his family to graduate from an American university. After completing his 2nd summer with AIG in 2016, Omar received and accepted his full-time offer with AIG and currently works as a Commercial Property Production Associate. Prior to his time at AIG, Omar was heavily involved with his university community and diversity & inclusion efforts within the insurance industry. He served as Howard University’s chapter President of Gamma Iota Sigma, the international risk management, insurance, and actuarial science fraternity. On the national level of GIS, he created and developed Gamma Iota Sigma’s center of expertise on diversity and inclusion, formally known as GammaS.A.I.D. (Solutions for Authenticity, Inclusion, & Diversity) and had the opportunity to present at the 2016 Llyod’s of London Dive-In Festival in Columbus, Ohio. Recognized for his involvement, Omar was asked to author an article for the September 2016 edition of the AAMGA Wholesale Insurance News magazine where he discussed “Optimizing Industry Standards through Diversity and Inclusion”. Omar maintains his connection to insurance at Howard University by continuing to serve as a member of the Howard University Center for Insurance Education Advisory Board. The purpose of the board is to advance the curriculum of the actuarial science and risk management and insurance programs, expand and enrich opportunities for insurance students, and to plan the annual Finance, Insurance and Risk Management Symposium. Omar has been recognized for his work by Howard University as a two-time Maximillian Wallach Most Outstanding Student Award Recipient. On a national level, Omar was the 2016 recipient of the National African-American Insurance Association’s Jerald L. Tillman Endowed Scholarship, the 2016 Gamma Iota Sigma Warren L. Weeks Leadership Award and 2016 Griffith Education Foundation’s Elizabeth A. Kocur Scholarship. Omar has taken his love for D&I and insurance international as well by being recognized as a Young AfricanA Leadership Initiative (YAALI) Fellow and traveling to South Africa to explore the regulatory environment and its impacts on various demographics within the country. When Omar isn’t working, he enjoys dance and was a member of the Caribbean dance team, Tropical Riddimz, in college. He even had the opportunity to be featured as a performer for the Liberian Entertainment Awards. In any of his pursuits, Omar keeps in mind that “if your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

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