I've spent three and a half decades building businesses, the last twenty-five in insurance.

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I started out of college by founding my own multi-state sales organization. From there I moved up through sales and marketing

leadership at Boyt Manufacturing, signed more than $300 million in energy contracts for MidAmerican Energy during Iowa's

deregulation, and was promoted from VP of Sales to COO at Harvest Services.

 

In insurance, I've worked nearly every seat: agency owner, commercial lines producer, relationship manager, and then eighteen years

at EMC Life. There I rose from recruiting agents to Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, leading a 10,000-agent

network and more than tripling first-year premiums in two years.

 

Today I'm a Partner and Co-Founder of Paradigmetric, an organization seeking to change the way risk transfer is managed, I serve as

fractional President and Chief Strategy Officer at Lifecor, a Life Insurance Company in formation, and just completed an engagement as Chief Operating Officer at Indemn, an Insurtech seeking to ‘Make Insurance a Conversation’.

 

I hold a BA, MBA, and graduate certificates in both Marketing and Leadership, all from the University of Iowa.  I also hold the Chartered Life Underwriter designation.

 

At heart, I'm a coach. Nothing is more rewarding to me than helping a team get somewhere they're determined to go, and that's what Highbury is built to do.

 

Notable Engagements

• Paradigmetric · Partner and Co-Founder: A platform that builds and manages a portfolio of specialized MGAs.

• Lifecor · Fractional President and Chief Strategy Officer: A new life insurance company built for the next generation of buyers.

• Just Completed - Indemn · Fractional Chief Operating Officer: Automates complex insurance operations, including sales from quote to bind, using AI and machine learning.

Track Record

• Scaled revenue at a seed-stage Insurtech as fractional COO

• Helped a seed-stage Insurtech close its funding round

• Completed an MGA divestiture to a strategic acquirer

• Helped a global reinsurer build an accelerated underwriting engine

• Built life products in partnership with global reinsurers

• Led a 10,000-agent distribution network and more than $100 million in annual premium

• Grew first-year premiums from $6 million to $21.5 million in two years

• Signed more than $300 million in energy contracts personally, part of a $1 billion team effort at MidAmerican Energy