Kelly Drouillard
Kelly Drouillard joined Live Oak Bank with more than 25 years in development, operations, and finance within the Insurance industry. Most recently, Kelly was a Vice President of Strategic Markets at a leading insurance lending institution. Her career also included tenure with Dodson Group, GE Insurance Solutions and Brooke Capital Advisors where she worked with transactions for entrepreneurs in the Insurance industry. Kelly was co-founder of Quivira Capital, a company that manages Insurance industry commercial debt on behalf of 70 syndicated lenders and four securitization pools. She is a graduate of Kansas State University and an active member of TMPAA, NAPSLO, AAMGA and PLUS.
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Sam Bennett
Sam is an active retail producer and partner in Harrison Agency of Columbia, MO. He has worked in the personal lines, commercial lines and life & health markets. Sam has grown to understand and appreciate the myriad of ways an insurance professional must work with markets and clients in today’ s insurance world. Sam is a National Faculty Member in the Agribusiness and Farm Insurance Specialist( AFIS) program, has taught coursework for the National Alliance, presented at insurance conferences across the country, and provided services as an expert witness in cases involving insurance.
Corey Wilkins
Corey Wilkins is the Owner and President of Corey Wilkins Insurance & Financial Services, Inc., a State Farm agency in Tacoma, WA. He started in the industry with Safeco in 1994 as a Commercial Underwriter and later a Multi-Line Marketing Representative. In 1999, he became a Marketing Manager for Kemper Auto & Home Group for Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. Corey is the past president of both the local Rotary and Chamber of Commerce. He volunteers for Young Life, is on the speaking team for Teleios Ministries and sits on the board of the Faith Leadership Initiative. Corey is the lead singer / guitarist for the Johnny Cash tribute band,“ Folsom Prism” and has ran six marathons. He’ s been married for twenty five years to his high school sweetheart, Gina. He also has 16 year old fraternal twins, Noah and Olivia; a dog that is a Boston Terrier, and a cat that is a nuisance!
Bryan Tilden
Bryan Tilden is a National Lecturer and Expert Witness in the field of insurance. Prior to starting his own firm, he was director of Technical Affairs and director of Education for IIANC. Since entering the insurance business in 1974 as an Account Executive, he has worked for major brokerage firms on Fortune 100 accounts around the nation. He specialized in large retention programs, utilizing the international marketplace. Bryan has been active in insurance education as a grading panel member for the Insurance Institute of America and the American Institute for Property Liability Underwriters. He has taught in every state in the U. S. and also teaches in Europe. He has served on the Education and Technical Committees for IIANC and worked with the State of North Carolina on pre-licensing and continuing education. In 1988, IIANC presented him with the Ernest F. Young Education Award, and in 1989 Agent of the Year. Bryan has taught for both the PIA and IIA, and served as speaker at RIMS and CPCU meetings, as well as various conventions.
Kent Anthony
Kent E. Anthony has been President of First Group Insurance of Sterling, Kansas since 1981. He began his insurance career in 1977 as an agent with Kansas Farm Bureau Insurance. Kent has a degree in Business Administration from Northwestern Oklahoma State University and has been a CIC since 1985. Kent is also a Certified Financial Planner licensee, as well as having the Chartered Mutual Fund Counselor and the Registered Financial Consultant designations. In 1985 under Kent’ s management, First Group Insurance was honored by Allied Life for being their company’ s top life insurance producing property and casualty agency for the year. In 1992 the Kansas PIA awarded First Group Insurance their“ Agency of the Year” award for a class two size agency. Kent was also named the Kansas“ Agent of Merit” award winner for 2005 by the Kansas Insurance Associations 1752 Club. In 2011 Kent was awarded the Kansas Outstanding Agent of the Year award by the Kansas Association of Independent Agents.
Ted Kinney
Ted Kinney is the owner / President of Kinney Training and Consulting, LLC, which specializes in providing quality insurance training programs to agencies and companies throughout the United States. Ted also serves as the Director of Education and Technical Affairs for the Alabama Independent Insurance Agents( AIIA) in Birmingham, Alabama. In this position he is responsible for developing agent education programs and providing technical assistance to association members. He is also an independent contractor for the Ohio Insurance Agents Association. As with AIIA, he assists with the development of the association’ s education programs and provides technical assistance to association members. Ted has been in the insurance business since his graduation from the Ohio State University in 1973. During his career, he has worked as an underwriter, field sales manager, department supervisor, marketing specialist and trainer.
Will Larson
Will Larson is an attorney who has practiced E & O defense work in Kansas for 36 years. Over the course of his career, he has represented insurance companies and agents throughout the state. He works as a consultant for KAIA on legal and policy issues. Will operates KAIA’ s Legal Hotline which provides free advice to KAIA members, conducts E & O audits for agencies, and offers review of carrier contracts for agencies.
Questions? Call KAIA at 1-800-229-7048 or email Morgan Schultz at morgan @ kaia. com