CEDAR Document Technologies Congratulates Laurie Ranegar of Tower Group Companies

ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwired - Nov 4, 2013) - CEDAR Document Technologies (CEDAR), a provider of cloud/hosted managed services solutions, is pleased to congratulate Laurie Ranegar of Tower Group Companies, recently honored as one of Insurance Networking News' 2013 Women in Insurance Leadership Award winners. 

Ranegar, along with the other winners of the Women in Insurance Leadership Awards, will be recognized in the October/November print issue of Insurance Networking News (INN) and will be honored in person during the Women in Insurance Leadership (WIL) Forum being held October 29-30 at Intercontinental Hotel in Chicago.

"These women are leading the way for others, both within their own companies and within the insurance industry," said INN Editor-in-Chief Carrie Burns. "This year's WIL judges noted Laurie's people, process and systems execution skills that surfaced through her efforts to integrate, reshape and improve Tower Group Companies' operations and services." 

According to the INN website, the Women in Insurance Leadership "honor the extraordinary accomplishments of professionals whose leadership and performance have redefined the insurance business and its application of technology."

Ranegar, SVP of Operations at New York-based Tower Group Companies, received her nomination from CEDAR for her efforts to execute the company's strategy for profitable growth through acquisition by providing operational leadership to support rapid growth. Part of that strategy includes implementing technologies, like CEDAR's AGILE Communication platform that enable more efficient print and mail production and fulfillment, business driven content management as well as increasing electronic adoption amongst policyholders. Recently, Ranegar has taken the lead in reducing Tower's employee turnover by implementing new practices in conjunction with the company's HR business partner to review the candidate sourcing and selection processes. 

"Leaders in insurance companies are focusing on CCM and SDO initiatives," said Lee Nagel, Vice President of CEDAR's Insurance Practice. "We congratulate Laurie and all of this year's winners for the recognition of their hard work, leadership and vision."

About CEDAR Document Technologies (CEDAR)
CEDAR Document Technologies is the leading provider of hosted multi-channel customer communication management and self-servicing solutions. CEDAR redesigns policyholder and agent communications to improve the user experience and CEDAR's platform optimizes the production, management and multichannel delivery of communications the processing of responses from communication recipients. CEDAR's platform lives between your core systems and your customers and agents, aggregating and transforming information into personally relevant communications such as policy documents, claims correspondence, welcome kits and contact center letters. The CEDAR platform empowers business users to continuously improve the communication experience without requiring time-consuming or complex IT projects. For more information about CEDAR, please visit the company's website at www.cedardoc.com.