Women to Watch: Melissa Kerns

Melissa Kerns

Senior Vp

AIG Risk Management Group

New York

Age: 40

Melissa Kerns has spent her entire career in the insurance industry with AIG, joining the company as a professional associate in 1988. Currently, she is the profit center manager for the group's national account segment, which consists of property/casualty accounts with $700 million or more in sales.

Greatest influence: Charles Dangelo, president of AIG Global Risk Management. "He makes it look so easy, when running a company is certainly not easy to do."