Liberty Mutual Insurance's Ivania Konieczka elected to CAPA's Board of Directors

March 2, 2016
The Certified Automotive Parts Association announces the election of Ivania Palacios Konieczka, Vice President of Personal Insurance Claims at Liberty Mutual Insurance.
The Certified Automotive Parts Association announces the election of Ivania Palacios Konieczka, Vice President of Personal Insurance Claims at Liberty Mutual Insurance.         Ms. Konieczka joined Liberty Mutual Insurance in 2011 and is currently Vice President of Personal Insurance Claims for the Auto Physical Damage Product and Analytics group.  She and her team are responsible for insuring Liberty’s innovation and leadership in the auto physical damage arena.   Prior to becoming Vice President, Ivania was Assistant VP, Head of Analytics for the Auto Physical Damage group, where she and her team focused on process optimization.

Before joining Liberty Mutual Insurance, Ivania held various roles in financial planning and analysis at Discover Financial Services in Riverwoods, IL and in IT Risk Management at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Miami, FL.  Ivania received a B.S. degree in Management Information Systems from Florida State University and an MBA from the University of Texas. 

“Ivania brings an extraordinary amount of knowledge and expertise to CAPA’s Board.  Putting Ivania’s expertise in Auto Physical Damage Claims to work for CAPA will continue the long-standing and positive contribution that Liberty Mutual Insurance has made to CAPA since our founding in 1987.  Ivania is joining a board of exceptional industry leaders and will, no doubt, become an important part of CAPA’s efforts to protect the marketplace from poor quality parts,” said Jack Gillis, Executive Director of the non-profit association.  “Liberty Mutual, and many other diverse organizations, joining together with CAPA, are a key reason for CAPA’s continuing success.  We look forward to working with Ivania.” 

CAPA’s Board includes:

Tim Adelmann, ABRA, Inc.

Bill Daly, Allstate Insurance

Bill DeGrocco, GEICO

Jack Gillis, CAPA

Ivania Palacios Konieczka, Liberty Mutual Insurance

Ben Kelley, Center for Auto Safety

Chris Northup, Professional Parts Group

Clark Plucinski, Collision Repair Education Foundation (Chairman)

Mike Schoonover, Schoonover Bodyworks Inc.

Ben Steinman, Ben's Auto Body

Carol Waldron, State Farm Mutual Insurance

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