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Amber is consistently one of Burns & Wilcox’s top producers. She writes a book of business of $50 million and manages all underwriting activities for the Burns & Wilcox, Salt Lake City office. Her accomplishments have been recognized across the Burns & Wilcox international network, receiving the company's "Top Producer Award" for 10+ consecutive years, as well as the "Top New Business Income Award" for many of those years.
Amber can attribute much of her success to her competitive focus. Prior to starting her insurance career, she graduated from the Salt Lake City Police Academy and was certified to be an officer.
Amber belongs to the Utah Surplus Lines Association and is a Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC). She also has served on many Carriers advisory boards. She is actively involved in the community outreach programs within Burns & Wilcox, including volunteering at Ronald McDonald House Charities, The Road Home & For the Kids Charity.
Amber’s biggest accomplishment is her family. Amber loves spending time with her husband Brady and their 3 beautiful daughters.
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Ivan Hudson, Director of the UCA Center for Insurance & Risk Management and Lecturer, joined the College of Business faculty in the fall of 2023. Before UCA, he began his career at the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce and later worked with the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation as a program associate. In 2009, he joined the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery's start-up team, serving in various roles, including Procurement Director. After completing his MBA at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2012, Ivan the insurance industry when he founded the Ivan Hudson Agency. He obtained a Series 6 and Series 63 license by 2014.
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Vince Staub, MS, CRM, CCP, is a distinguished executive and leader with over 30 years of experience in risk management, compliance, corporate security, and Environmental Health & Safety (EHS). As the President of Risk Managers International and a Managing Partner at Make the Shift Consulting Group, he drives innovative strategies that enhance organizational resilience. Vince's career began at age 16 as a YMCA Day Camp leader, laying the foundation for his lifelong dedication to leadership. He has held prominent roles, including Chief Risk & Security Officer for a major multinational semiconductor company and National Faculty Member at The National Alliance for Insurance Education and Research. With a Doctor's Degree in Strategic Leadership and multiple certifications, Vince combines extensive knowledge with a passion for community service, serving on various boards and leading youth leadership initiatives.
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Steven Paul Weiss, MS-Inc, CPCU, AMIM, NAMS-CMS
Steven’s experience in Ocean and Inland Marine Insurance includes over 35 years of experience as a Marine Surveyor, Loss Adjuster, Direct Insurance and Reinsurance Underwriter following his eight years of active and reserve service with the U.S. Navy.
Steven has recently started Incarnation Specialty Underwriters an Ocean and Inland Marine Delegated Underwriting Authority focused on Cargo, Project Cargo, Transportation and other lines.
Previously as Senior Vice President/Chief Underwriting Officer at Munich Re Specialty Group Insurance Services, Steven was responsible for a team of Ocean and Inland Marine Underwriters writing over 140 million in direct premium at loss ratios below 40%. He worked closely with underwriters, brokers, and assureds to minimize risk and maximize return for both parties.
Steven has extensively travelled and worked internationally, opening offices in Latin America while at Liberty and worked with insureds on 6 continents.
Steven’s passions include family, gardening, Sporting clays, the Houston Marine and Energy Insurance Conference and mentoring and developing incoming or current colleagues in the Insurance Space.
A lifetime learner and self-professed insurance nerd, Steven received his BA-History from Virginia Military Institute, MS – Insurance Management from Boston University and the Associate in Marine Insurance Management and Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter certification from the American Institute for CPCU. Steven is also an active member of the National Association of Marine Surveyors serving as a president (first for 4 years) and now as an International Regional Vice President.
In March 2023, Steven was honored with the St Mary’s Greehey School of Business “Risk Management Professional of the Year”
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Discover how you can make a difference and help other high school students "Own their potential" by becoming an Emerging Talent Partner!
Established in 1991, the Center for Insurance and Risk Management (also known as The Katie School of Insurance and Risk Management) supports Illinois State University's nationally recognized undergraduate insurance and risk management program and actuarial science program. We are committed to the preparation of future industry leaders by supporting strong industry involvement with our students, innovative teaching by outstanding faculty, cutting-edge applied research, and a student-centered learning environment. See the Business Insurance video on how the Katie School is preparing the next generation of insurance leaders.
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Empower the Future of Risk & Insurance
Give back and help support educating and inspiring the next generation of professionals by becoming an Emerging Talent Partner or by bringing the CISR High School Program to your community!
Emerging Talent Partners ProgramCISR High School Program About Our Difference Maker: Anne is a native Hoosier and a graduate of Indiana University. She began her insurance career in 1978 as a receptionist at an independent insurance agency. She has held every position at an agency including receptionist, assistant, producer, sales manager, carrier liaison as well as owning her own agency. When Anne sold her agency, she served as executive director of I.T.D.I., an insurance training and development project for the state of Indiana. Anne joined Arlington/Roe in 2004 and retired as a full-time employee in 2019. She currently helps part-time with Sales & Marketing for Minnesota.
Anne has always been involved with the Big I (Independent Insurance Agents) and the PIA (Professional Insurance Agents) throughout her career. Mentoring young people and promoting insurance education has always been a passion of Anne’s. She served on the Indiana State University Insurance & Risk Management Advisory Council. She assists with the Ivy Tech and CISR high school insurance programs in collaboration with other insurance schools like Ball State, Butler and Indiana State. In her spare time, Anne likes to do other volunteer work, travel, garden and do fun activities with her family and grandchildren.
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Get the Industry's Latest Insights on Automotive Mobility Risk!
The report sheds light on critical violation trends influencing the industry's current and future state of driving risk. SambaSafety tapped into an extensive database of motor vehicle record (MVR), telematics, and compliance, safety, and accountability (CSA) data to offer never-before-seen insights – from violation frequency to the probability of costly claims.
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Learn more about the Risk & Insurance Education Alliance's rebrand.
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In this Episode of Nat Alliance Now, Awkward Insurance Podcast hosts Dustyne Bryant and Ashley Fitzsimmons are taking over, with the mission to dive deep into Pet Insurance insurance with guest, Mike Bechthold from Nationwide Pet Insurance. Join us as we explore the invaluable benefits Pet Health Insurance offers and the common misunderstandings that might be holding you back from providing this essential coverage to your clients. Discover where insurance professionals can tap into the growing demand for pet insurance and gain insights into what you need to know to effectively sell pet insurance to your clients. Whether you're an insurance professional seeking new markets or a pet owner curious about safeguarding your furry friend's health, this episode is for you.Focusing exclusively on risk management and insurance professional
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Matthew K. Cashion, Jr., CIC, CRM (Matt), born and raised in Little Rock, was enrolled in the seventh grade at Pulaski Academy upon its inception by his parents. Before graduating in 1977, he attended Boys State and served as state president of the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA). His next phase of life found him following in the footsteps of his next older brother, Ted, graduating from Westminster College in Fulton, MO in 1981 with degrees in Economics & Business Administration and Accounting, and a fiancee, Susan Pippin. While at Westminster, he served as a member of the college’s prestigious Skulls of Seven Society and is a Sigma Chi. After graduation, he joined the family agency alongside both brothers, Benson and Ted, and his father, Knight, and marrying his college sweetheart in the spring of 1982.
Education and industry involvement was instilled in the agency fiber by Knight and continues as part of its DNA today. Soon after joining the agency, his father sent him to the Reliance Insurance Company’s Agent Surety School in 1983. In 1986, Matt received his Certified Insurance Counselor Designation and completed the requirements for his Certified Risk Manager designation in 2004. Additionally, Knight gave him the opportunity to attend surety industry association meetings, where he found his business passion. With mentors from all over the country
providing wind in his sails, Matt volunteered his way through the ranks of the National Association of Surety Bond Producers (NASBP), serving as a Regional Vice-President, Board Member, various committee memberships and chairmanships, and in 2003-2004 he served as the youngest national president.
His lane through NASBP was via education. Attending its Level 2 surety school in 1986, he discovered a second passion; teaching. Returning to the association’s school two years later, Matt was recently honored as the longest tenured instructor for NASBP clocking in 35 years of volunteer service to thousands of students from every state in the union as well as seven foreign countries. Further participation has included curriculum development and review of all levels of the association’s educational offerings on contract surety, text editing of The Basic Bond Book, curriculum review for The Institutes’ AFSB designation as well as recording select course introduction videos.
Having just completed another term as chair of NASBP’s Professional Development Committee, Matt is currently serving as co-chair of the Annual Meeting Program committee for a record sixth time.
NASBP honored Matt with the President’s Award in 2004, the John J. “Jack” Curtin Presidents Award for Distinguished Service in Surety Education in 2009, the Bruce T. Wallace Award for Career Contributions in 2013 (its highest award), and the John J. “Jack” Curtin Award again in 2023, becoming the only two time recipient.
Matt also followed the leadership example set by his business partner, Jim Allbritton, serving as president of The Independent Insurance Agents of Arkansas (Big I - Arkansas) in 2015-2016. In 2021, Big I honored Matt with its highest award, the Allan Kennedy Memorial Award.
An unintended consequence of volunteer service to various construction trade associations over the years has resulted in awards from the Associated Builders and Contractors of Arkansas (ABC) (2020 - Phillip Joiner Award for leadership) and Associated General Contractors of Arkansas (AGC) (2011 - Distinguished Service Award; 2021 - President’s Award). After having served as a founding member of National AGC’s Surety Industry Advisory Council and acting as its Outreach and Education Task Force Chair in 2001, AGC inducted Matt into its Consulting Contractors Council of America in 2009.
Further involvement has included presentations and speaking opportunities all over the country to various groups ranging from the AICPA, the National Home Builders Association, local surety associations, trade associations (AGC, ABC, ASA, NAWIC), universities, engineers, and as a convention keynote speaker in Puerto Rico.
Outside of the industry, Matt has offered his time to a variety of civic organizations including Pulaski Academy, Alzheimer’s Arkansas Programs and Services, the Metropolitan YMCA, and the Heflin Youth Foundation. Additionally, he has received gubernatorial appointments to the Information Network of Arkansas and the Contractors Licensing Board, where he has served as Chair.
Combining his passion for teaching and his greatest blessing, Matt and his wife have co-led various small groups at their church for over 30 years, most recently post college single adults. Pushing the comfort zone limits, he even became an ordained minister during the pandemic in order to perform a requested wedding service for a couple that had met in the class.
His most recent passion and greatest joys are found in spending time with his six amazing grandchildren. His daughter Rachel and her husband Dr. David Rainwater, have three wonderful girls. His son, Matthew K. Cashion, III (Tripp) and his wife Kara, have two amazing girls and his only grandson (Matthew K. Cashion, IV aka Knight).
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Learn more about the FSU Intercollegiate Insurance Sales Challenge: https://business.fsu.edu/departments/rmi/dr-hold-program/events/insurance-sales-challenge
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Try the Directory out: https://webapi.scic.com/SCICSearchDirectory/Learn more about this Online Designee Directory here: https://www.scic.com/new-online-directory-launched-for-designation-holders/.
If you are a dues-paid designee and not appearing in the directory results, simply opt-in via your PROfile.
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Richard Clarke, CIC, CPCU, RPLU
Dick Clarke is a veteran of the property/liability insurance industry, having worked as underwriter, broker and consultant through hard and soft market cycles. He was formerly Senior Vice President with the regional brokerage, J. Smith Lanier & Co. headquartered in Georgia, having retired late in 2016.
He publishes articles and teaches on a variety of executive liability, cyber and E&O subjects, and functions as an expert witness, a consultant to buyers of commercial insurance, and to insurance companies concerning product development. He is a teacher in CE programs for several professional insurance organizations. His books are listed for purchase on Amazon.com, with the most recent, Executive Liability Insurance: From the Basics to an Advanced Approach having entered its fifth edition in 2012. (This work is currently being updated, with a revised, sixth edition available late in 2019.) Additionally, this book was translated into Japanese for the Risk Management community in Japan, in 2013. Clarke provided content and editing for The National Alliance's on-line course on Directors and Officers Liability insurance (2015 to present), and was an original recipient of the CPCU Society's "Distinguished Instructor in Insurance" award, in 1996.
He holds several professional designations.
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As a pioneer in innovative marketing, Peter has brought unique approaches to an industry that can be considered mundane. With a fresh perspective, he has started an insurance-focused marketing communications company, a successful podcast, spearheaded on-the-fly interviews at industry events, and constantly challenges his clients to think outside the box.
Peter's dedication to excellence is evident as he shares how he earned the CIC Designation to better understand the industry and write better content for his clients. This showcases his conviction towards continuously improving his craft, ultimately leading him to leverage his CIC knowledge to target his client's marketing efforts better.
Join us as Peter shares his inspiring journey as a marketing communications leader and how a mindset of continuous learning has made him a true difference maker in the industry.
Are you an Insurance Marketer looking to understand the industry better? The Introduction to Insurance for Marketers course explores the fundamentals of the insurance industry through a marketing lens and examines key terminology to effectively market to consumers, businesses, and agencies.
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Join Nat Alliance NOW Host, Mitch Dunford, as he discusses the exciting developments and innovations rolling out in 2024, with President & CEO William Hold, MBA, CRM, CISR, and Chief Experience Officer Danielle Janecka.
The trio discusses Exclusive Update Options for Dues-Paid Designees, New Dynamics of Service Self-Paced Series, the new Learning Portal, the Community Social Platform, and advice to designees on maintaining annual update requirements.
Tune in to this enlightening podcast episode and discover how the National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research is embracing innovation and change in 2024. Its going to be a GREAT year.Focusing exclusively on risk management and insurance professional
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Jake Holehouse | President and CEO of HH Insurance Group
Jake Holehouse is the President of HH Insurance in St. Petersburg, FL. He founded HH Insurance with his father, Ron Holehouse, in June 2018 and they have experienced rapid growth since the agency has opened. Jake grew up in the insurance industry working for his father’s agency throughout high school, Holehouse Insurance in St. Petersburg, FL. After graduating from Florida State University, Jake worked for American Strategic Insurance (ASI) as a national account manager, specializing in the national home builder accounts. Following ASI, he decided to work alongside his father again at Holehouse Insurance. They grew the business at an astronomical rate, eventually selling the agency to Regions Insurance, an affiliate of Regions Financial Corporation. Following Regions Insurance, Jake worked at Heritage Insurance Holdings as an Executive Vice President of Business Development and assisted in product expansion from 3 states to 13 states. Seeing the opportunity of opening a new independent agency, Jake opened HH Insurance in June 2018. HH Insurance has rapidly grown in 5 years from 3 team members to a team of over 45 and continues to win multiple service and sales awards. In Jake’s time at Florida State University, he earned a Bachelors and Masters degree in Risk Management and Insurance. Jake sits as an advisor to the risk management and insurance program at Florida State University, as well as multiple local community service positions.
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SambaSafety Report: From Perception to Practice: An Insight into Insurer Data Strategies and Sentiments
John Barbagallo, former President of Commercial Lines at Progressive, brings 40 years of insurance experience to SambaSafety. As a Strategic Advisor, he specializes in leveraging technology and data to drive profitable growth, enhance decision-making, and foster continuous process improvement within the insurance industry. He has played a crucial role in pioneering advancements with telematics that helped capture market-leading positions in Commercial Auto.
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Join the Head of Faculty & Academic Development, Jay Williams, CIC, CRM, CRIS, MLIS, AIP, AAI, ACSR as he hosts special guests from Utica National Insurance Group: Tabitha DeGirolano, Errors & Omissions Risk Management Specialist, and Mark R. Angelucci, Senior Vice President and Insurance Agents Errors & Omissions Segment Leader.
In this episode, the trio emphasizes the critical role of ongoing education for insurance agents, noting how crucial it is for agents to stay informed on coverages and effectively manage their operations.
Utica National Insurance Group is dedicated to supporting agents throughout the claims process by providing tailored resources and education opportunities, aligning with their strategy for client claims management. Agents can access Utica National's E&O program through their local independent agent association, such as the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents or the Independent Agents and Brokers of America State Association. These associations serve as the exclusive distribution source for Utica National Insurance Group's E&O program.
Tune in to gain valuable insights into the unique offerings of Utica National's E&O program. Agents will learn how they can benefit from direct access to underwriters and risk management specialists, comprehensive resources, and personalized support throughout the claims process. The National Alliance remains dedicated to empowering insurance professionals to achieve success in their careers by providing resources like this.Focusing exclusively on risk management and insurance professional
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