Nominations
INSURANCE PERSON OF THE YEAR AWARD & RISING STAR AWARD
Salute 2025 nominations are now closed.
2025 Winners
2025 Insurance Person of the year
Lorraine Bullock
Wawanesa Insurance
Currently the Wawanesa vice president responsible for the BC region, Lorraine started her insurance career working a temporary gig at a brokerage during the February Autoplan rush. The temporary gig turned into a permanent position. Ultimately, Lorraine bought a share of the business and became the managing partner.
In 1999 the brokerage was sold to Westland and her career took a turn to Travel Insurance where she spent time as the national sales director for Travel Insurance Coordinators, Senior Product Manager at BCAA, and Regional Vice President of RSA Travel Insurance. In 2014, Lorraine joined Wawanesa where she has been for the past 11 years.
A strong believer in volunteering and giving back to the industry, Lorraine has spent time on many committees including as treasurer for the Executive Travel Network, Education Chair for the Travel Health Insurance Association, Non- voting member of the Insurance Council of B.C., Chair of the IBC B.C. chapter, Chair of the Dorman Charity Golf Tournament and 16 years with the Salute committee.
After a lengthy and varied path, Lorraine feels she has found her calling in Operational Leadership. Supporting people to enable delivery of corporate objectives has been the most rewarding period of her career.
Outside of work, Lorraine has been married to Wayne for 47 years and is an avid traveller and entertainer. Her most recent trip took her entire family, 3 grown children, their spouses and her much adored 4 grandchildren to Scotland this past summer.
2025 Rising Star
Matt Woodall
Royal Claims Services Ltd.
Matt Woodall is President & Senior Claims Specialist at Royal Claims Services Ltd. since 2019, having started in the industry with Canadian Direct Insurance in 2011. He has championed paper-free workflows, expanded the firm from a handful of adjusters to a 20-person national team, and earned repeated Excellence Awardee nominations plus a Five-Star Claims Provider accolade. He has presented at the Insurance Institute Symposium on practical AI in claims, served on the Insurance Institute of British Columbia’s seminar committee, and previously sat on the Blue Goose BC board. Personal gratitude for neonatal care spurs his family’s ongoing fundraising for BC Women’s Hospital, and he has previous participated in the Covenant House Sleep Out to spotlight youth homelessness.
