Women to Watch: Alexandra Glickman

Alexandra Glickman

Area Vice Chairman and Managing Director-Practice Leader, Real Estate & Hospitality Services

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.

Glendale, Calif.

Age: 47

Alexandra Glickman entered the industry in 1983 working for Johnson & Higgins. She later launched Marsh Inc.'s real estate industry practice and created "Real Secure," an integrated professional liability and D&O product for the industry. As leader of Gallagher's real estate and hospitality practices for the past six years, she heads a team that insures a commercial real estate portfolio valued at $75 billion. She also remains a hands-on broker and is the area vice chairman of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Insurance Brokers of California Inc. In addition, Ms. Glickman is president of the Real Estate & Construction Industries Council for City of Hope, a cancer treatment and research center in Los Angeles.

What would you change: "I would make industry regulations more uniform and logical so that clients, insurers and brokers are not at the whim of each state. There's tremendous redundancy in this current system which doesn't appear to benefit anyone but the individual state that imposes it."