 About Us
Our Mission
Our Experience
Our Team
Our professional staff has collectively over 100 years of experience in the insurance industry. Many of our staff worked for national insurance
brokerages, as well as national insurance companies that TransPac Insurance Services currently represent. While our team has extensive knowledge of
our client's business, we also realize these businesses have specific insurance needs. As a result, our staff takes the time to listen to their
specific risk management issues and to design an insurance program around those requirements.
 Ron McQuaid, CIC, President & CEO
Ron began his insurance career as a claims adjuster with Liberty Mutual Group in 1991 after receiving his B.S. Business
Administration/Finance degree from Long Beach State University. He was Liberty's first adjuster assigned to Kauai
following the aftermath of Hurricane Iniki and also worked on a variety of claims for Liberty Mutual including product
liability, tort liability, property, and workers compensation. In 1993 he transferred into the business sales department
as a licensed agent and later became the company's commercial general agent for Hawaii in 1996.
In 1997, he earned his Certified Insurance Counselors designation and in 2001 completed his graduate studies at Chaminade
University in Honolulu, Hawaii earning a Masters degree in Business Administration. The following year he left the insurance
carrier side of the industry and joined a local agency where he developed a significant book of business and became
experienced with the agency side of the business. Today, he continues to help a wide variety of businesses with their
commercial insurance and risk management needs.
Stanley Okinaka, Executive Vice President
Stan has been involved in healthcare risk management and insurance since 1976 when he was employed by the Queen's Health
Systems in Honolulu, Hawaii as the Corporate Director of Risk Management. He was responsible for all risk financing
(property and casualty insurance) and risk management and claims management programs. One of his many accomplishments
during his 13 years of employment at Queen's include establishing and managing an offshore captive insurance company in
1985 that funded the System's self-insured general and professional liability exposure and a fronting arrangement of
reinsurance for higher excess limits.
Stan was employed by Sullivan, Kelly & Associates, a California based, national insurance brokerage specializing in
healthcare from 1989 to 1996 and was responsible for the servicing of their healthcare clients in Hawaii and California.
In 1996, he was appointed the exclusive general agent for Farmer's Insurance Group in Hawaii and parts of California.
Farmers was the predominate carrier for primary and excess professional liability insurance in the Western United States
since 1959. Stan also joined a large independent insurance agency in Hawaii and he specialized in the healthcare industry.
Stan graduated from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Psychology.
Peter Junker, Vice President
Peter began his insurance career in the actuarial department of Crum & Forster in 1974 after receiving his B.S. degree in
Actuarial Science from The College of Insurance in New York City. Peter's diverse career includes experience as an actuary,
underwriter, broker, insurance company executive, risk manager, and risk management consultant.
Peter's experience in risk management includes working in the risk management department at Lockheed Corporation where he
was responsible for the property, liability and workers compensation programs. Later, he became the first risk manager at
Thrifty Corporation where he established risk management programs that included risk financing, risk control and claims
management. In addition, Peter joined ARM Tech, an independent risk management consulting company as a risk management
consultant.
Peter's most recent position was working as the Sales Representative in Hawaii for Liberty Mutual from October 2007 to
February 2009 when Liberty Mutual decided they no longer wanted to offer their product on a direct basis.
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