(IDEX Online) - Longtime Jewelers Mutual executive David Sexton is retiring after 39 years with the company. He began at Jewelers Mutual in 1980 as an underwriting assistant and took on a range of roles before becoming vice president of Loss Prevention and Consulting in 2004.
In this role, Sexton was responsible for the development, recommendation and implementation of Jewelers Mutual's loss prevention policy. He is credited with building key relationships between Jewelers Mutual with the jewelry, alarm, and law enforcement communities, to effectively promote comprehensive loss prevention strategies to reduce jewelry exposures to loss.
Sexton will officially retire from Jewelers Mutual on December 31.
Sexton, a member of the 24 Karat Club of New York, currently serves on the board of directors for the Jewelers' Security Alliance and the Canadian Jewellers Association.
In 2016, he was the recipient of the Jewelers' Security Alliance Industry Service Award and in 2018 he received the American Gem Society's John J. Kennedy Law Enforcement Award.