Margaret Milkint
Managing Partner, The Jacobson Group
Margaret Resce Milkint is Managing Partner of The Jacobson Group. A member of the firm’s Executive Management Team, she is a key ambassador in establishing strategic client relationships and broadening the firm’s reach and breadth of insurance talent solutions. Margaret’s passion lies in counseling clients on leadership selection and she has successfully managed countless executive searches during her more than 30 years with the firm.
Margaret’s executive search career spans domestic and global C-suite, executive management and Board of Director roles with depth in the property and casualty, life, health, and reinsurance sectors, inclusive of start-up ventures. She has successfully conducted searches in disciplines such as actuarial, analytics, underwriting, claims, operations, risk, finance, investment, legal, technology, sales and marketing.
Margaret is a Trustee for The Actuarial Foundation and a Board Member for the Illinois Technology Foundation. Additionally, she serves as a member of the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Employers Council and is a member of the Chicago Finance Exchange. She was also the Chair of the Board of Directors for Easter Seals, DuPage and the Fox Valley Region and served as a Board Member for nine years.
Margaret is a champion for diversity, inclusion and intersectionality in the insurance industry. She co-founded the Women’s Insurance Networking Group (WING), a platform for networking and career development among the insurance industry’s female leaders, emerging talent and enlightened males. Margaret is also the U.S. Committee Chair for The Insurance Supper Club, a global forum for senior industry leaders to engage with like-minded colleagues on business issues.
Margaret's expertise on career and recruiting issues is widely-recognized throughout the industry; and as such, she is an active industry speaker and thought leader. She was most recently called upon to share her perspectives with Best’s Review, Carrier Management, Diversity in Action, Insurance Networking News, and Risk & Insurance, and was a featured contributor in Carrier Management, IASA Interpreter, and NAMIC INsurance Magazine. Margaret is called on to speak at many regional and national conferences, including those of the Insurance Accounting and Systems Association, Insurance Data Management Association, Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation, National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, the SOA, and the Society of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters.
Margaret received her bachelor's degree in English with concentrations in French and marketing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to her tenure with Jacobson, she was employed by Allstate Insurance Company of Northbrook, Illinois, where she first developed her passion for the insurance industry.