Management Team Board of Directors
Stanton F. Long Stanton F. Long
J. David Gibbs J. David Gibbs
Laura Vaccaro Laura Vaccaro
Keith Hemmer Keith Hemmer
Alacrity Services Management Team

Over the past twenty years, Alacrity's principals and management have been involved in the property claim business. Based upon industry research and intimate customer experience with Alacrity's industry-leading products, we believe our unique service delivery model and supporting technology fulfills the insurance industry's demands to keep costs low, while providing high-value customer-centric services. Alacrity's innovative web-based claim management tools and customer support services provides economic and service benefits for both progressive and more traditional insurance companies.

Alacrity Executive Management Team

Alacrity's Management team includes professionals from the insurance industry, construction management and cost engineering, legal, technology, and customer RELATIONSHIP management fields.

 
Stanton F. Long
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer    slong@alacrityservices.com

    Stan currently serves full time as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alacrity Services LLC. Prior to founding Alacrity, Stan was elected Vice Chairman and Director of Project Time & Cost (PT&C) and served as Chief Executive Officer of PT&C since January 2001.
    Stan is a graduate of the University of Oregon with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Political Science. He holds a J.D. from Willamette University College of Law and is a member of the Oregon State Bar Association. Upon graduation from law school in 1967, Stan joined what was to become Harrang, Long, Gary, and Rudnick, PC, an Oregon and California law firm, where he continues as a shareholder today. From 1972 through 1981, Stan was the City Attorney for Eugene, Oregon. In 1981, he began an assignment as Deputy Attorney General for the State of Oregon. From 1984 through 1987, he also was appointed Director of the State of Oregon's Department of Commerce. In this position presided over the office of the Insurance Commissioner, Superintendent of State Banks, Corporation Commissioner, Building Codes Division, State Housing Program, Fire Marshall, and various other State Boards and Commissions.
    In 1988, Stan began his second career in the insurance industry. For the next four years he was president and Chief Executive Officer of SAIF Corporation, the largest workers' compensation company in Oregon. While there, Stan conceived and implemented a strategy for a major turnaround, which took the company from insolvency to financial health. He also is regarded as the principal architect of Oregon's workers' compensation reform legislation passed in 1991. Today, SAIF Corporation manages over $325 million in annual sales.
    In 1992, Stan joined American International Group, Inc., (AIG) in New York, as President of the Cost Containment Division. He later served as President of AIG Claims Services and AIG Vendor Services and was the Senior Home Office Executive for AIG Consultants. In addition, Travelers Property Casualty as Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Claims Department. He also was a member of the Travelers Executive Committee.
J.David Gibbs
Vice Chairman, Managing Director and General Counsel    dgibbs@alacrityservices.com

    J. David Gibbs is founding partner of The West Bridge Group, LLC. The West Bridge Group provides alternative dispute resolution, consulting, legal and related business and advisory services to companies and individuals in areas including litigation and prelitigation disputes, risk management, insurance services and distribution, internal investigations and disaster response and recovery.
    Before forming West Bridge, Mr. Gibbs served as President and Chief Executive Officer, Claim Services, for Travelers Property Casualty Corporation. As chief claims officer, Mr. Gibbs was the senior executive responsible for all aspects of service delivery, claims results and operations for Travelers Personal Lines, Workers' Compensation, Commercial Property, Liability and integrated disability and absence management businesses, including Travelers Investigative Services, Major Case Units, Staff Counsel and related functions. He oversaw the formation and growth of Synchrony, the integrated disability and absence management joint venture formed by Travelers and MetLife in 1998, and served as Chairman of Constitution State Services LLC, the Travelers fee for service businesses in commercial lines, the profitability of which grew substantially under his administration. Under his leadership, Marsh Inc. named Travelers Claim Services number one in the industry in 2000 and again in 2001.
    Prior to joining Travelers, David was Senior Vice President, Product Services and Regulation, for the Domestic Brokerage Group companies of American International Group (AIG). He joined AIG as Counsel for New Hampshire Insurance Group, in Manchester, New Hampshire. After several years with the New Hampshire Group, he as named General Counsel of AIG's Cost Containment Division in New York, NY and was later appointed Senior Vice President and General Counsel, AIG Claim Services. Before joining AIG, he practiced law in Washington, D.C. with Steele & Fornaciari, a firm whose practice was devoted to trail and appellate litigation and business law. Earlier, David served as Associate Counsel for Sentry Insurance Group in its Atlanta, Georgia regional home office, following several years of practicing law with Bovis, Kyle & Burch, an Atlanta-based insurance defense and business law firm.
    Mr. Gibbs is a graduate of the University of Richmond and Emory University School of Law.
Laura Vaccaro
President    lvaccaro@alacrityservices.com

    Laura serves as Alacrity's President. She has 15 years experience in Corporate Finance for medium sized consulting firms with extensive experience in personnel management, business process improvement, implementing policies and procedures and strengthening internal controls.
    Most recently, Laura served as Vice President of Home Office Operations for the AlacNETTM group where she was instrumental in the development of our Customer Support Group and in establishing the operating processes for our Contracting and Credentialing Group.
Keith Hemmer
Vice President of Insurance Services    khemmer@alacrityservices.com

Keith is the Vice President of Insurance Services for Alacrity Services LLC. He manages the field activities of the Company and participates in the implementation process of new programs. Keith has been with Alacrity since it’s inception and is an integral part of the relationships with several of our Carrier companies, including Allstate, Encompass, and Shelby Vesta.
His 10 years of experience in consulting and project management has been extremely useful as new programs and new carriers are added to AlacNet.
 
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