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Outgoing
ARM Chairman Ty Hopkins, incoming Chairman Larry Johnson
and Scott Spangler of ARM Partners opened the General Session.
They provided attendees a look back at 2005, along with
a vision of what the future might hold. General Session
speakers included:
DISASTER PLANNING AND RECOVERY
DOUG MILLS | VP/COO
GILLIS, ELLIS & BAKER,
INC.
Doug handles a multitude of responsibilities at this New
Orleans based ARM member agency, including personnel, procedures,
sales management and managing carrier relationships. August
29, 2005 added another dimension to Doug's responsibilities
within the agency, as Hurricane Katrina unleashed its force
and wreaked havoc on New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast.
Assuming a leading role in the disaster planning and recovery
of the agency resulted in the ability of the team to begin
taking claims the day after the storm. In his presentation,
Doug reviewed plans put in place prior to the storm, and
his agency's post-Katrina recovery story, one of success
in the face of overwhelming odds.
WHERE VISION TAKES YOU AND HOW TO GET THERE
FRANK D. “SANDY” TATUM | RETIRED
PARTNER, COOLEY GOWARD LLP
Sandy continues to practice general commercial law, and
his life experiences have covered a broad range of commercial
and related activities in and around the greater San Francisco
area. In his presentation “Where Vision Takes You
and How to Get There”, Sandy reflected upon the many
projects and interests he has been involved with where
vision and visionaries allowed ideas to turn into realities.
As Sandy notes, “Whether or not the world was created
by a visionary, visionaries have been the prime movers
in creating the places on this planet where life can be
effectively lived.”
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STATE
OF THE PROPERTY MARKET
HARRY TUCKER | PRESIDENT
OF NATIONAL PROPERTY
RISK PLACEMENT SERVICES, INC.
Harry serves as branch manager of the RPS office in Manhattan,
as well as a resource for all RPS property producers across
the country. Additionally, Harry produces and markets his
own book of property business. In his presentation, Harry
gave the group a snapshot of where the property market
is in this post-Katrina business environment. He included
comments on both catastrophic-driven business and standard
property business, as well as information on the property
reinsurance marketplace, and offered his insight as to
the future of the ever-changing property marketplace.
RPS AT-A-GLANCE
JOEL CAVANESS | PRESIDENT,
RISK PLACEMENT SERVICES, INC.
Joel began RPS as a start-up operation in 1997 with three
employees in Chicago. Today it is a thriving wholesale
and excess/surplus lines brokerage operation with 40 offices
and satellite offices across the country, and 650 team
members. In his presentation, Joel gave attendees an update
on what new RPS resources have been added since last year's
meeting, as well as a look into the future to see what's
on the RPS drawing board. In keeping with the Conference's
annual tradition, Joel passed out RPS override checks to
various ARM State organizations totaling in excess of $470,000. |
