Women to Watch: Pamela E. Davis

Pamela E. Davis

President and CEO

Nonprofits Insurance Alliance Group

Santa Cruz, Calif.

Age: 54

Pamela E. Davis entered the insurance business in 1989 when she launched the Nonprofits' Insurance Alliance of California. Since then, NIAC has grown to be a significant player in the nonprofit insurance market in California, with well over 5,000 policyholders and $50 million in annual premium volume. In 2000, with grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates and David and the Lucile Packard foundations, she launched the Alliance of Nonprofits for Insurance Risk Retention Group, which began writing business in 2001 and now provides coverage to about 2,000 nonprofit organizations outside of California. She also started an offshore association captive, which reinsures the two insurance programs.

What would you change: "I'd like to attend an event with senior executives of this industry and not have others automatically assume that I'm one of the spouses and not a peer."