William J. Thomas, Jr., ARM

Risk Manager
Phone: 760-750-4502
Email: bthomas@csusm.edu

Bill Thomas, ARM, is the risk manager and assistant director of risk management and safety at California State University (CSU), San Marcos. He graduated from the University System of New Hampshire, Keene State College in 1993 with a Bachelor of Science in safety studies. In 2006, he completed his Associate in Risk Management designation from the Insurance Institute of America.

He has worked as the university risk manager for eight years. In this role, he manages the university's self-insured program and assists the campus community in integrating risk management principles into a variety of institutional applications. He is also an active member in the CSU system, having worked on such projects as the CSU Club Sports Model and the CSU Service Learning Resource Guide. Mr. Thomas serves as a member of the CSU Risk Management Authority’s Board of Directors. Prior to coming to the university, Mr. Thomas worked as a loss control consultant for 10 years with Aetna Property/Casualty and the Beacon Mutual Insurance companies.

Recently, Mr. Thomas has been elected to the University Risk Management & Insurance Association’s Board of Directors. In addition to his new role as an URMIA Board of Director, Mr. Thomas has served on the 2011 and 2012 URMIA Annual Conference planning committees. He published “ERM from the Ground Up: A Grassroots Approach” in the 2010URMIA Journal. Mr. Thomas presented at the Risk and Insurance Management Society’s Enterprise Risk Management Summit in 2010 to share his experience initiating ERM into university athletics and at URMIA’s 2012 Annual Conference, sharing his most recent efforts to integrate ERM into student activities.

Mr. Thomas is a past member of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) and a current member of several professional organizations, including the University Risk Management & Insurance Association (URMIA), the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS), the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), and the Public Agency Risk Managers Association (PARMA).




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