WAYNE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 28, 2026--
Radian Group Inc. (NYSE: RDN) today announced executive leadership appointments to further support the company’s strategy, build on the strengths of its mortgage insurance and specialty insurance businesses, and support disciplined growth and long-term value creation.
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Dan Kobell has been named Chief Financial Officer, reporting to Radian Chief Executive Officer Mike Weinbach. Since joining Radian in 2015, he has held finance leadership roles of increasing responsibility, most recently serving as Interim Chief Financial Officer since February 2026. Kobell will continue to lead Radian’s financial strategy and operations, with a focus on disciplined capital allocation, risk management, and maintaining the company’s capital strength and financial flexibility. He will partner with the leadership team to direct investments toward strategic priorities that support sustainable growth, generate attractive returns and create long-term stockholder value.
Courtney Smith Goodrich has joined Radian as Chief Information Officer, reporting to Weinbach. She will lead the company’s technology strategy, including system modernization, and data and analytics, to sharpen insights, accelerate decision-making, and deliver better outcomes for customers. Most recently, Smith Goodrich served as Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer at Fannie Mae, where she led enterprise-wide transformation initiatives. She previously held executive leadership positions at Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase.
Russell Merrett, a founder and Chief Underwriting Officer of Radian specialty insurance subsidiary Inigo, will assume a newly created role leading property and casualty (P&C) strategy for Radian, reporting to Weinbach. He will assess opportunities in relation to Radian’s existing portfolio and strategic priorities, exploring new markets, partnerships, and other potential avenues to scale the company’s insurance and reinsurance businesses and support profitable growth.
Craig Knightley has been promoted to Chief Underwriting Officer of Inigo and will succeed Merrett after regulatory approval is obtained. In this role, he will lead underwriting for the company’s insurance, reinsurance, and partnerships businesses. Knightley joined Inigo at its founding, helping build the business and originating its Horizon and Inform programs, which exemplify the company’s distinctive approach to the specialty market. He will report to Inigo Chief Executive Officer Richard Watson.
Stuart Bridges, a founder of Inigo who has served as its Chief Financial Officer, will take on a new role as Radian Group Advisor. Drawing on his deep P&C expertise and relationships, he will expand Radian’s connections with key business partners and market participants, including P&C-focused investors, to build broader understanding of the company's strategy and value within the sector.
These appointments complement the continued leadership of Meghan Bartholomew and Steve Keleher as Co-Heads of the company’s mortgage insurance subsidiary, Radian Guaranty, and Richard Watson as CEO of Inigo.
“Radian has a leading mortgage insurance business, a differentiated specialty insurance platform, a strong capital position, and a deep and talented team,” said Weinbach. “These appointments build on that depth, expanding our leadership team with a balance of financial, technology, and underwriting expertise to support executing our strategy and next phase of growth. We see real opportunity ahead and will pursue it with the same risk and capital discipline that underpins our financial strength and creates long-term stockholder value.”
For additional information on Radian’s Executive Leadership Team, please visit www.radian.com/our-leaders.
About Radian
Radian Group Inc. (NYSE: RDN) is a global multi-line specialty insurer and the parent company of Radian Guaranty Inc. and Inigo Limited. Through its mortgage insurance and specialty insurance subsidiaries, Radian combines underwriting expertise, analytics, financial strength, and a customer-focused culture to help businesses navigate complexity with confidence, transforming risk into a world of opportunity. Learn more at radian.com.
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Dan Kobell, Chief Financial Officer, Radian
Dolores Huerta, the legendary labor organizer whose advocacy improved conditions for migrant farm workers in the nation’s fruit and vegetable fields and persuaded presidents to do more for women’s equality and immigrant rights, died Wednesday. She was 96.
Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union with César Chavez, was celebrated for her enduring rallying cry “Sí, se puede!” — which translates to “Yes, it can be done!”
She died of cancer at her home in Bakersfield, California, surrounded by family, said Erik Olvera, a family spokesperson.
Well into her 90s, Huerta was marching in protests and encouraging activists to keep speaking out about race, poverty and LGBTQ+ and women’s rights.
“It seems like history continues to repeat itself,” she told The Associated Press in August. “You see what’s happening right now in our country, and we know that people have to stand up.”
Huerta’s resolve cemented her place in history as one of the nation’s most influential labor leaders, civil rights icons and feminist activists. Her three-word Spanish-language slogan was grounded in the belief that people who take action can affect change.
Her accolades over the decades included the Presidential Medal of Freedom. When President Barack Obama presented her with the nation’s highest civilian honor in 2012, he praised Huerta as a tenacious leader. He said she was gracious when he stole her slogan for his 2008 campaign. “I’m pleased that she let me off easy ... ’cause Dolores does not play,” Obama joked.
Just days after President Donald Trump’s first inauguration, Huerta voiced concern about the rise of so-called “alt-right” groups.
“We cannot survive as a nation, as a democracy, if we continue with the racism, with the sexism and homophobia, with the militarization that we have in our society,” she told the AP in 2017.
This year, Huerta revealed a shocking chapter in her life story — that she was sexually abused in the 1960s by Chavez, the farmworker movement’s co-founder, leading to the birth of two children who were raised by others. She had kept the secret for 60 years, long after he died. Chavez's reputation immediately soured, his name removed from the holiday that had been a point of Hispanic pride.
Huerta said she had feared breaking her silence would compromise her life’s work and unravel the progress made for workers. From the early 1970s on, Huerta’s life partner had been Richard Chavez, César’s brother, and together they had four kids. She also had seven children from two earlier marriages.
“It was my personal pain, it was my personal problem and, you know, I think it was worth it because it was my cross to bear,” she told the news organization Latino USA.
Huerta's advocacy changed lives far beyond the farm fields, said former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who called Huerta “a stalwart champion of working Americans.”
“Dolores wore many hats: voting rights advocate, human rights champion, die-hard Democrat, self-described ‘born-again feminist,’ and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America,” the Clintons said in a statement. “To see her in action was to witness a living legend who never stopped pushing for progress.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom said California would not be where it is without her “passion for justice and fairness.”
“Dolores’ fight for gender equity, workers’ rights, and civil rights paved the way for generations to come — teaching people what was possible with determination and heart,” the Democrat said.
United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero said Huerta “has left farm workers and the entire Latino community stronger and more organized than she found it.”
Huerta was born Dolores Clara Fernandez in 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico. Her father was a miner and union activist who won a seat in the state Legislature. Her mother took her and her brothers to California after the couple divorced.
Immersed in a melting pot of Mexican, Filipino, African American, Japanese and Chinese working families, Huerta learned from her mother about independence, compassion and activism.
Huerta was teaching in an elementary school in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley when she grew frustrated by her students' poverty and decided to answer another calling.
“I couldn’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes,” she said in a 2017 PBS documentary. “I thought I could do more by organizing farmworkers than by trying to teach their hungry children.”
Huerta’s early civil rights work led to her meeting Chavez. In 1962 they started the National Farm Workers Association, which became United Farm Workers of America. She was a key leader and negotiator for years.
Their breakthrough came when they organized Filipino pickers in what became the five-year “Delano Grape Strike.” With Chavez, she negotiated collective bargaining agreements and contracts with big growers, winning precedent-setting health and benefit plans for farmworkers.
Chavez, who died in 1993, described her as fearless, committed to the cause and tough.
Huerta met Sen. Robert Kennedy in 1968 and volunteered with his presidential campaign, registering Mexican Americans in California to vote. Kennedy publicly thanked her after winning the California primary, moments before he was shot.
The assassination devastated Huerta, but she kept organizing. She was jailed 22 times for union demonstrating.
In 1988, she was seriously injured while protesting Republican presidential candidate George H.W. Bush’s opposition to the UFW grape boycott. Caught in a crowd, she was struck by a police officer’s baton, suffered broken ribs and a pulverized spleen. She reached a settlement with the city of San Francisco to resolve her claims.
After a long recovery, Huerta focused on campaigning for women’s rights and encouraging Latinas to run for office.
She also campaigned for Democratic Presidents Clinton, Obama and Joe Biden.
Emilio Huerta, one of her 13 children, said his mother's courage drove her work.
“To dedicate your life to building a dream of a union for farmworkers, to take on agriculture, which to this day is still a powerhouse. ... That took a lot of guts,” he said.
Huerta secured financial aid for the unemployed and disability insurance for California farmworkers. She railed against toxic pesticides, pushed for amnesty for immigrants in the country illegally and opposed federal guest worker programs.
By directing nationwide boycotts of grapes and lettuce in the early 1970s, she helped create the economic pressure and political climate necessary for California to pass the first state law recognizing farmworkers’ right to collective bargaining.
Huerta's leadership in the labor movement made her name synonymous with civil rights in the U.S. and beyond. In “Seeds of Change: The Life and Legacy of Dolores Huerta,” she credited the 1970s women’s movement for providing her with the validation to take the stage with other labor leaders.
“We want to give our children an inheritance of justice, right, not jewels or property or money because they’ll just fight over it," she said in the 2025 documentary. "So the main thing to do is to give them this love for justice — and that is the greatest gift I think that any of us can have.”
Associated Press contributors include Ryan Pearson, Leslie Ambriz, Brian Melley, John Seewer and former AP journalist Russell Contreras.
FILE - Dolores Huerta, far right, thanks senators after the unanimous vote to designate April 10 as "Dolores Huerta Day," March 18, 2019, in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte, File)
FILE - Civil rights leader Dolores Huerta speaks during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
FILE - United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta looks at a mural of the late Cesar Chavez during a dedication of the Cesar Chavez Monument on the San Jose State University campus in San Jose, Calif., Sept. 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
FILE - United Farm Workers leader Dolores Huerta, center, leads a rally in San Francisco's Mission District on Nov. 19, 1988, along with Howard Wallace, president of the San Francisco chapter of the UFW, left, and Maria Elena Chavez, 16, the daughter of Cesar Chavez, right, as part of a national boycott of what the UFW claims is the dangerous use of pesticides on table grapes. (AP Photo/Court Mast, File)
FILE - Dolores Huerta, the labor leader, civil rights activist and co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association, is seen at the California Democratic Party's 2025 State Convention at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif., May 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
