Leadership
Meet our talented leadership team.
Operating Committee
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Steve M. Boyd
Senior Vice President of Technology, Innovation, and Digital Strategy

Richard A. Freebourn, Sr., CPCU, CIC
Senior Vice President – Internal Operations

Julie Turpin
Senior Vice President & Chief People Officer

Jim Hays
Vice Chairman

H. Vaughn Stoll
Senior Vice President & Director of Acquisitions

Thomas K. Huval, CIC
Senior Vice President & Regional President – Retail Division

Sam R. Boone, Jr.
Senior Vice President

Richard A. Knudson, CIC
Senior Vice President & Regional President – Retail Division

Paul F. Rogers
Senior Vice President & Regional President – Retail Division

J. Neal Abernathy
Senior Vice President

Mike Egan
Senior Vice President & Regional President - Retail Division

Michael L. Keeby
Senior Vice President & Regional President – Retail Division

Kathy H. Colangelo, CIC, ASLI
Senior Vice President

John M. Esposito, CIC
Senior Vice President & Regional President – Retail Division

John R. Berner
Senior Vice President

Joseph S. Failla
Senior Vice President

Donald M. McGowan, Jr.
Senior Vice President & Regional President – Retail Division
Mergers & Acquisitions Team

J. Scott Penny, CIC
Executive Vice President & Chief Acquisitions Officer

H. Vaughn Stoll
Senior Vice President & Director of Acquisitions
Board of Directors

J. Powell Brown, CPCU
President & Chief Executive Officer, Brown & Brown, Inc.

J. Hyatt Brown, CPCU, CLU
Chairman, Brown & Brown, Inc.

Jim Hays
Vice Chairman, Brown & Brown, Inc

Wendell S. Reilly
Managing Partner, Grapevine Partners, LLC

Toni Jennings
Chairman, Jack Jennings & Sons; Former Lieutenant Governor, State of Florida

Timothy R. M. Main
Chairman of Global Financial Institutional Group, Barclays Plc

Theodore J. Hoepner
Former Vice Chairman, SunTrust Bank Holding Company

Samuel P. Bell, III, Esq.
Former Of Counsel to the law firm of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

James S. Hunt
Former Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Worldwide

Hugh M. Brown
Founder and former President & Chief Executive Officer, BAMSI, Inc.

H. Palmer Proctor, Jr.
Chief Executive Officer/ Director, Ameris Bancorp and Chief Executive Officer, Ameris Bank

Chilton D. Varner, Esq.
Senior Counsel, King & Spalding LLP

Lawrence L. Gellerstedt III
Chairman of the Board and CEO, Cousins Properties Incorporated