M. Steven DeCarlo has served as Chief Executive Officer of AmWINS since December 2000. Prior to joining AmWINS, Mr. DeCarlo held various management positions with Royal & SunAlliance USA, Inc. from 1988 to 2000, including Senior Vice President for Business Insurance (1998-2000) and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Royal Specialty Underwriting Inc., Royal & SunAlliance’s excess and surplus division (1988-1998). He has served on the AmWINS board of directors since he joined AmWINS in December 2000. In 2009, Steve was the winner of Ernst & Young LLC's prestigious Enterpreneur of the Year® award in the Carolinas for the financial services category.

David J. Ament has served as a director of AmWINS since October 2007. Mr. Ament is a Managing Partner of Parthenon Capital, LLC, which he joined in 2003. Prior to joining Parthenon Capital, LLC, Mr. Ament was a Principal at Audax Group, a $500 million private equity firm focused on growing middle-market companies.​

Joseph E. Consolino has served as a director of AmWINS since December 2006. Since March 2006, Mr. Consolino has been with Validus Holdings, Ltd., a reinsurer based in Bermuda, where he is currently President and CFO. From 1998 until joining Validus Holdings, Mr. Consolino served as a Managing Director in the investment banking division of Merrill Lynch. Mr. Consolino also currently serves on the board of directors of National Interstate Corporation.​

Brian P. Golson has served as a director of AmWINS since October 2005. Mr. Golson is a Partner at Parthenon Capital, LLC. Prior to joining Parthenon Capital, LLC in 2002, Mr. Golson was the Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Operations at Everdream Corporation, a software company headquartered in Fremont, California.​