Darlene McBride

Darlene McBride is the Vancouver regional manager of HSB Canada, a niche specialty insurance company that is known for its underwriting, sales and service expertise for the province of B.C.

She brings over 30 years’ experience working with brokers, general lines insurers, managing general agents and risk managers. She has also held positions in business development, management, HR and marketing.

Darlene is a part-time instructor with the B.C. chapter of the Insurance Institute and co-author of several Canadian Insurance Professional (CIP) textbooks. She is also a part-time faculty member at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, teaching in the General Insurance and Risk Management program.

Darlene holds a CIP designation as well as Canadian Risk Management (CRM) and RIMS Fellowship (RF) designations. She is an associate member of the BC Risk & Insurance Management Association.