Alliance NOW! Risk & Insurance Podcast Series

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• Peter van Aartrijk, CIC (“R-trike,” as in “bike”) is founder of Fairfax, VA-based insurance marketing-communications firm Aartrijk. He started his career as a newspaper reporter, where he learned how to question the status quo. He has worked with insurance carriers, agents, brokers and related industry business partners for decades. Peter and his Aartrijk associates support insurance organizations seeking to innovate and create a new employee and customer brand experience.
• Amy Hourigan is the director of marketing and communications at HAI Group, a carrier that specializes in providing insurance, risk management services, and professional development training to the U.S. multifamily affordable housing industry. A 25-year marketing veteran with both agency- and client-side experience, Amy serves on the board of the IMCA and is the former co-chair of the organization’s promotions and communications committee.
• Kevin Jenné is the research director for Channel Harvest Research and Aartrijk. He has previously led research and insights teams at Liberty Mutual/Safeco Insurance and Washington Mutual Bank. He holds the Insights Professional Certification (Master level) from the Insights Association. Reach him at [email protected].

Focusing exclusively on risk management and insurance professional development, the Risk & Insurance Education Alliance provides a practical advantage at every career stage, positioning our participants and their clients for confidence and success.

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PIA of Wisconsin

Ryan Butzke CIC, CISR

Ryan is a P&C producer at Northbrook Insurance Associates Inc. with 22 years of experience in the insurance industry. Ryan is the current President of PIA in Wisconsin and a past President of IMAGE of WI. He believes attaining the CIC & CISR designations from The National Alliance is key to a producer selling success. Ryan also completed The National Alliance School of Producer Development in 2002 at FSU. His interests include anything outdoors, WI sports teams, & spending time with family.

Brenda Steinbach

Brenda is the Education & Convention Director, she has been with PIAW for 38 years. She is the driving force behind PIA Wisconsin’s hugely successful education programs and annual convention. Arranging dates, locations, topics, speakers, food, CE credits, schedules, audio/visual and the myriad of other details can only be accomplished by someone who is extremely well organized and focused. She's an expert at the organization’s internal procedures and is always looking for ways to make the dues and program investments more valuable.

Pete Hanson, CISR

In 2018 Pete was recruited from Anchorage, Alaska, where he served as CEO of a trade association in the hospitality industry. A native of Madison, Pete has 20 years of experience in Wisconsin government and government relations. He also brought to PIAW fourteen years’ experience in trade association management.

Focusing exclusively on risk management and insurance professional development, the Risk & Insurance Education Alliance provides a practical advantage at every career stage, positioning our participants and their clients for confidence and success.

• Victoria Lane is Lloyd’s Archivist. She manages Lloyd’s Collection of around 10,000 objects and is working on research projects to understand the links of Lloyd’s market to the historic Transatlantic slave trade through the Collection:The transatlantic slave trade (lloyds.com). Prior to coming to Lloyd’s, she worked at Shakespeare’s Globe and ran a consultancy in art archives with Judy Vaknin, working with artists and cultural organizations on their heritage and memory. She has mainly worked in the arts sector including at Tate and the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, is an oral history interviewer for the British Library’s National Life Story Collection and has co-edited the bookAll This Stuff: Archiving the Artist.
• Hank Watkins is regional director & president of the Americas region for Lloyd’s. With 62% of Lloyd’s global premium in 2021, the Americas is Lloyd’s largest market for insurance (E&S in the US) and reinsurance. In addition to market development, Lloyd’s colleagues in the Americas provide claims, regulatory, and media relations support to the syndicate writing business in the region. Over the past 40 years, Hank has held a range of underwriting, client management, and leadership positions in the United States and Europe at Chubb, Marsh, HRH, and Lloyd’s. Hank received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and has completed an executive leadership program at The Wharton School. He’s a member of the Board of Overseers at the Hank Greenberg School of Risk Management at St. John’s University and is on the boards of BritishAmerican Business, the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (Chair, Board of Governors) and the Insurance Federation of New York.

Focusing exclusively on risk management and insurance professional development, the Risk & Insurance Education Alliance provides a practical advantage at every career stage, positioning our participants and their clients for confidence and success.

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• Meg McKeen, CIC- With over 20 years of insurance industry experience, Meg McKeen, CIC, founded Adjunct Advisors LLC in 2018 with the essential belief that we can do more for insurance professionals. Meg has extensive experience in underwriting, leadership, as an insurance agent, and is now an industry consultant. She has been involved in thousands of insurance negotiations and now holds space for insurance professionals as they grow their sales and leadership acumen through private coaching, consulting engagements, and the podcast she hosts: Bound & DeterminedSM.
• Scott Stricklin, CIC, CRM, CRIS- Scott Stricklin is a born and raised Mississippian, with the exception for a few years in Southern California and East Tennessee. A graduate of the University of Mississippi with a bachelor’s degree in 1988. A 30-year veteran of the insurance industry, he began his insurance carrier in 1990 as an Underwriter for Allstate – Spent 7 years there in Underwriting and Sales Management. Moved into the Commercial arena in 1997 with Liberty Mutual. Since then, he has worked with several agencies and National Brokers. Currently with Fisher Brown Bottrell Insurance, headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi. With a presence in 5 states – MS, AL, TN, FL, and Houston, TX – His main focus as a Commercial Producer is working in the construction industry, with emphasis on Sub-contractors, such as Heating & Cooling, Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing, and Restoration. Another area of focus in the Healthcare area, specifically with Addiction Recovery and Substance Abuse facilities. He holds the CIC and CRM designation, as well as the CRIS (Construction Risk & Insurance Specialist) and is working toward his CPCU designation. He has one daughter, his “baby girl” who is 24 years (LOL). Scott is an avid sports fan, he follows his alma mater, the Ole Miss Rebels, and is also a big New Orleans Saints fan. A lifelong lover of music, he also sings and plays guitar at several venues throughout the state.

Focusing exclusively on risk management and insurance professional development, the Risk & Insurance Education Alliance provides a practical advantage at every career stage, positioning our participants and their clients for confidence and success.

Claire Richardson, CISR, Captive Consultant at Hylant Global Captive Solutions, and National Alliance Board Member, hosts our inaugural Difference Makers podcast episode! On this special episode, Claire is joined by Chief Marketing Officer, Mitch Dunford and Bob Rogers, CLU, ChFC, a fantastic teacher and mentor for the National Alliance.

Tune in as the trio looks back at previously featured Difference Makers to discover what makes them and future guests so unique.

• Claire Richardson- Captive Consultant at Hylant Global Captive Solutions
• Mitch Dunford- Chief Marketing Officer at The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research
• Bob Rogers- Life & Health Academic Director at The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research

Focusing exclusively on risk management and insurance professional development, the Risk & Insurance Education Alliance provides a practical advantage at every career stage, positioning our participants and their clients for confidence and success.