Two years ago, Osmar Bertacini pass away leaving a large legion of admirers

The Personal Insurance sector has been growing steadily thanks to men who work hard to protect life leaving the field of collective indifference. This exhaustive work in the past has now borne fruit in the present, enhanced by the pandemic of the new coronavirus.
One of those responsible for this progress is the former president of the São Paulo Association of Insurance Technicians (APTS), Osmar Bertacini, who unfortunately passed away in January 2019. At the time, he would complete 57 years of experience in what he liked most to do: protect people.
Precisely on June,7 1962 an audacious young man from small Palestine town, 70 kilometers from São José do Rio Preto (SP), was testing his skills by joining the renowned Companhia Internacional de Seguros. In fact, his only record in your professional card. He worked first as an archivist in the Group Life Insurance section. With extreme dedication, three years later he was transferred to the Personal Accident section to work as an accounter. Beginning a vertiginous rise to become one of the biggest names in the sector – a “living legend” for his admirers.
In the professional sphere, leaving his mark wherever he went: at Internacional (deputy chief, chief, assistant manager, manager and superintendent of benefits), partner at Libra Clube (shared responsibility with the former president of Sincor-SP, João Leopoldo Bracco de Lima), until setting up his company, Humana Seguros, in 1991.
Osmar collected friends and admirers. “His teachings, his joy, his strength and will leave us a legacy of faith and love”, emphasizes the long-term companion, a colleague at Companhia Internacional de Seguros, the insurance broker Adevaldo Calegari. Another friend has an eternal vote of thanks. “The help, the emotion, the friendship that I received from the great Osmar are marked forever in my history”, says, moved the president of Sincor-SP, Alexandre Camillo.

Associative life

“For those who don’t know me, my name is Osmar Bertacini”. With this phrase filled with very good humor – because that was one of main characteristics – the “living legend” made its statement at events promoted by entities in the segment. Perhaps he was the most striking character in his forays into associative and also academic life. Beginning at the then Funenseg (today School of Business and Insurance – ENS), he taught for more than three decades, starting in 1984, and many of his students follow a brilliant career in the insurance market.
Three years earlier, however, he was one of the founders of Clube Vida em Grupo São Paulo (CVG-SP), on May 25, 1981, of which he held the presidency on two occasions – in the 2009/2010 and 2011/2012 bienniums. In his tenure, he contributed to the expansion of the life business in the country. “When I started in Personal Insurance activity, Osmar Bertacini was already a reference in the area. Without a doubt, I consider him the great pope of the sector ”, testifies the former president of the entity, Silas Kasahaya.
In fact, Osmar did a lot for the entities: he was also one of the founders and the first president of São Paulo State Advising and Consulting Firms Association (Aconseg-SP), held twice the presidency of the São Paulo Association of Insurance Technicians (APTS) and tirelessly participated in the activities of the São Paulo Insurance Brokers Club (CCS-SP), where he was treasurer in the management of Luis López Vázquez and Supervisory Board in Alexandre Camillo management. At the São Paulo State Chamber of Insurance Brokers (Camaracor SP) was Social director during 12 years, from 2007 to 2019. At Sincor-SP, Osmar also left his mark, when he took over the second secretary, between 2014 and 2018, under the management of Alexandre Camillo, and gave lectures in several regional offices of the Union. For those who did not know him, the stories and his life example remain. There is a phrase by the Chinese philosopher Confucius that illustrates Osmar Bertacini’s trajectory well: “Choose a profession you love and you won’t have to work a single day in your life”.