Meet Ernie Kangas Trade Insurance Expert from Heffernan Insurance Brokers

Ernie Kangas, of Heffernan Insurance Brokers, is a native Oregonian and graduated the University of Oregon in 1972 with BA in Finance.  He then received a Master of International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management in 1973.  His 39 year career solely in trade credit insurance began in 1973 with the Foreign Credit Insurance Association (FCIA) in New York City.  During his ten year career with FCIA, besides New York, he also worked in Milwaukee, WI, Los Angeles and the Bay Area.  The next 29 years have been as a specialty broker of trade credit insurance starting the brokerage side with the London-based Hogg Robinson & Gardner Mountain, plc, in their subsidiary, Credit Insurance Associates (CIA), starting their west coast operation in the Bay Area.  CIA eventually became Aon Trade Credit, Inc.  The last four years, he has been at Heffernan Insurance Brokers here in Portland.  He and his wife of 40 years live in an 1891 Queen Anne Victorian on the National Historical Registry, in Oregon City.

You can see Ernie with other panelists as they focus on Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East as part of their Roundtable Discussion at 2:15 pm during International Business Day on September 22, 2010 at the Pacific Northwest Credit Conference.