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Article: Hitting the high notes: Carol G. Barton has been instrumental in strengthening Affiliated FM over the past seven years into an operating unit that works with companies in the middle-market property insurance sector.(profile)
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- Risk & Insurance
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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It wasn't necessarily the easiest path toward becoming a top insurance industry executive, but it's the one that Carol G. Barton successfully chose nearly 30 years ago. Only 21 years old and armed with typing skills and a business school degree, Barton entered the world of insurance as a secretary in the Montreal sales office of the former Allendale Mutual Insurance Co.
Three decades later, at the age of 51, Barton is one of the industry's top-ranking female executives and oversees more than 200 employees on three continents as a manager at FM Global.
With a successful mix of sensitive leadership skills, high personal standards and a strong work ethic, ...