AIG Names DeSantis President, CEO of Personal Auto Group

AIG has named Anthony J. DeSantis as president and CEO of its Personal Auto Group.

The Personal Auto Group includes aigdirect.com, the direct personal lines automobile insurance operations of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), AIG Agency Auto, which provides personal lines insurance through a network of independent agencies and brokerages throughout the United States, and AIG Hawaii.

Based in Wilmington, Del., DeSantis succeeds Bruce Marlow, who has left the company.

DeSantis joined AIG in 1986, and has held several management and executive positions in the AIG personal lines companies, including president of AIG Marketing for AIG’s direct auto business. He was named chief operating officer of aigdirect.com in September 2007 following the merger with 21st Century Insurance Group.