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2024 Apogee Honoree: Louise Gallagher

Meet Louise Gallagher, Chief Financial Officer of USI Insurance Services, LLC
Gallagher

Louise Gallagher is originally from a small steel town in West Virginia. Gallagher attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a BA in Biology, with the intention of moving back to West Virginia to be a physician. Gallagher attended West Virginia University Medical School with Medical Honors before deciding that she should have stuck with the business classes as an undergraduate – medicine simply was not her passion. Gallagher moved to Chicago to work and save money before committing to a full-time MBA program. She moved to South Florida in 2002 to attend the University of Miami and pursue her MBA in Finance and Controllership. Not long after graduating, Gallagher was hired by USI, a privately held national insurance brokerage and consulting firm with over $2.7 billion in revenue and 10,000 employees. Gallagher has been with USI for 17 years, starting as a Vice President of Finance in FP&A for the Fort Lauderdale office. Within three years, Gallagher was promoted to a senior operations role in that office. The following year, she was promoted to Regional Chief Financial Officer for USI’s Southeast Region. In 2022, Gallagher was promoted to a new role as Chief Financial Officer of USI’s Programs, MGA, and Wholesale divisions.

Drew Limsky

Drew Limsky

Editor-in-Chief

BIOGRAPHY

Drew Limsky joined Lifestyle Media Group in August 2020 as Editor-in-Chief of South Florida Business & Wealth. His first issue of SFBW, October 2020, heralded a reimagined structure, with new content categories and a slew of fresh visual themes. “As sort of a cross between Forbes and Robb Report, with a dash of GQ and Vogue,” Limsky says, “SFBW reflects South Florida’s increasingly sophisticated and dynamic business and cultural landscape.”

Limsky, an avid traveler, swimmer and film buff who holds a law degree and Ph.D. from New York University, likes to say, “I’m a doctor, but I can’t operate—except on your brand.” He wrote his dissertation on the nonfiction work of Joan Didion. Prior to that, Limsky received his B.A. in English, summa cum laude, from Emory University and earned his M.A. in literature at American University in connection with a Masters Scholar Award fellowship.

Limsky came to SFBW at the apex of a storied career in journalism and publishing that includes six previous lead editorial roles, including for some of the world’s best-known brands. He served as global editor-in-chief of Lexus magazine, founding editor-in-chief of custom lifestyle magazines for Cadillac and Holland America Line, and was the founding editor-in-chief of Modern Luxury Interiors South Florida. He also was the executive editor for B2B magazines for Acura and Honda Financial Services, and he served as travel editor for Conde Nast. Magazines under Limsky’s editorship have garnered more than 75 industry awards.

He has also written for many of the country’s top newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Boston Globe, USA Today, Worth, Robb Report, Afar, Time Out New York, National Geographic Traveler, Men’s Journal, Ritz-Carlton, Elite Traveler, Florida Design, Metropolis and Architectural Digest Mexico. His other clients have included Four Seasons, Acqualina Resort & Residences, Yahoo!, American Airlines, Wynn, Douglas Elliman and Corcoran. As an adjunct assistant professor, Limsky has taught journalism, film and creative writing at the City University of New York, Pace University, American University and other colleges.