Staff | Hospitality Insurance Group Leadership and Team

Michael He

President & CEO

Michael brings two decades of operating and advisory experience in the insurance industry, specializing in underwriting performance, distribution strategy, and operational efficiency in complex, highly regulated markets.

Throughout his career, Michael has held leadership roles at Allstate, Travelers Insurance, Liberty Mutual, EverQuote, and Boston Consulting Group, where he has led and advised organizations on distribution strategy, sales effectiveness, and operational improvement. In his most recent role as Vice President of Distribution Innovation & Strategy at Allstate, Michael was instrumental in generating more than $150 million in incremental annual revenue by systematically reengineering pricing, incentives, lead routing, and sales processes.

Michael holds an MBA in Corporate Finance and Accounting, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and Economics, from the University of Rochester.

Warren Lewis

Vice President of Operations

Warren Lewis comes to Hospitality Insurance Group with more than 20 years of experience in the insurance industry including several years at his own insurance agency. Warren started his career with Premier Insurance of Massachusetts, focusing on home and auto products. Subsequently, at One Beacon, he was primarily responsible for business planning for the Massachusetts personal lines unit, and later at Narragansett Bay Insurance Company, he was data management director. In a previous life, Warren was a Peace Corps volunteer serving in Nepal and later worked as a commercial fisherman in the Bering Sea, Alaska. He currently resides in Westwood, Massachusetts with his wife and two children.

Warren holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine and a master’s degree from the University of Rhode Island.

Mark Trombly

CPCU, CIC, AIS & Vice President, Marketing

Mark Trombly joined Hospitality Insurance Group in 2018 as Marketing Manager and was promoted to Vice President, Marketing in January 2025. He has over 40 years of experience in the industry, having held positions in Claims, Underwriting, and Marketing with national and regional insurance carriers. Mark is well known in the insurance agency community, having spent most of his career working with agents in New England and beyond both in field marketing and marketing leadership roles.Mark earned a bachelor’s degree from Nichols College and holds the CPCU, CIC, and AIS insurance designations.

Stephanie Connon, Esq.

General Counsel, Senior Vice President of Claim Operations & Secretary

Stephanie Connon brings a combination of 30 years of experience in the legal and commercial market insurance industries to Hospitality Insurance Group. She began her career at a personal injury law firm managing a variety of bodily injury cases. Over the next 14 years, Ms. Connon excelled at a Fortune 100 insurance company based in Boston, Massachusetts where she successfully advised high profile policyholders in a broad range of insurance coverage, contractual, and litigated matters arising from complex, commercial litigation. She later formed her law firm devoted to the defense of construction litigation.

Ms. Connon earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts, cum laude. She later attended the New England School of Law, where she earned her Juris Doctorate in 2004.

Eric Piurkowski

CPA, CFO & Senior Vice President of Finance

Eric Piurkowski, CPA has 15 years of experience in the insurance industry. Before joining Hospitality Insurance Group, he served as a Senior Audit Manager at Saslow, Lufkin & Buggy LLP in Avon, CT. Before that, he served as an Audit Manager in the Financial Services Group at Deloitte in Hartford, CT.

Piurkowski earned a bachelor’s degree from Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT in 1998. He is a certified public accountant and a member of both the Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

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