Stuart Harbour is a Texas certified public accountant with over 30 years of experience in accounting and financial management. He has served in financial leadership roles in both public and private entities and has developed broad expertise including systems development, process reengineering, internal controls design, regulatory compliance and financial reporting. Stuart is a hands-on leader and team builder experienced in Property and Casualty and Workers Compensation Insurance, energy industry accounting and merger and acquisition activities.
Stuart began his career as an auditor at KPMG before serving in various financial roles including corporate controller at a NYSE traded diversified energy company. Stuart has also served as vice president over planning, budgeting, and reporting at Texas Mutual Insurance Company (Workers Compensation) and as corporate controller for a Texas insurance group that writes non-standard auto in multiple states.
He is currently the Chief Financial Officer of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, a residual market property insurer providing hurricane coverage to over 200,000 policyholders along the Texas coast. He manages all accounting and finance functions including budgeting, financial reporting, and treasury functions. Stuart is also the Chief Financial Officer of Texas FAIR Plan Association which provides residual market homeowners insurance throughout Texas. The annual combined premiums for the two Associations exceeds $500 million.