Itinerary

Speakers

Dr. Rob Hoyt, Ph.D.            Aubie W. Knight, CIC, CRM            Jack Williams

Steve Heinen, AAI CWCP            Neil Andersen
 

Steve Heinen, AAI, CWCP
Vice President - Risk Services at Insurance Office of America
Being a Consultative Broker in a Difficult Market

Steve graduated from The University of Georgia with a BBA in Risk Management.  He has served on IIAG's Commercial lines committee since 1989, having chaired it for four years.  He is an Associate Director of the Gainesville Hall County Chamber of Commerce and serves on the Board of Trustees for Gainesville College. 

Steve spent two years as an Underwriter for The Hartford Insurance Company, and worked at Turner Wood and Smith/HRH in Gainesville, for 23 years.  He is now President of Risk Managment, Inc and has done projects for the Georgia Insurance Department, State Board of Workers' Compensation, the National Council on Compensation Insurance and Numerous Self Insureds throughout the state.  
Steve also administers the Georgia State Board of Workers’ Compensation Claim Management Training program.  He was named as Insurance Man of the Year 1992 and 1997 and 2003 and received an Independent Agents Association of Georgia Past Presidents Award, Presidents Citation, Exceptional Service Award and serves as the Co-chair SAWCA Claims Committee.




Robert E. Hoyt, Ph.D.
Dudley L. Moore, Jr. Chairman of Insurance
University of Georgia, Athens
Market Forecast

Robert E. Hoyt (Ph.D. and M.A., Wharton School,University of Pennsylvania and B.S., University of Nebraska-Lincoln) is the Dudley L. Moore, Jr. Chair of Insurance and has been a faculty member at UGA since 1988. He is the Department Head for Insurance, Legal Studies, and Real Estate and was Interim Dean of the Terry College in 2007. He studied as an ITT International Fellow for one year at the Universität zu Köln in Cologne, Germany and was a Fulbright Visiting Professor of Risk Management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien).

Prof. Hoyt teaches corporate risk management and enterprise risk management. In 1993 he received the Richard B. Russell Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award and in 1994 he was honored as the Terry College Distinguished Teacher. He was appointed to the UGA Teaching Academy in 2001 and has twice received The Les Strickler Innovation in Instruction Award from the American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA). In 2007 he received the Excellence in Teaching Award from ARIA.

His research interests are focused in the areas of corporate hedging and enterprise risk management, tort reform and insurance costs, the economics of insurance fraud, and insurer insolvency. His research has appeared in various scholarly and trade journals including the Journal of Risk and Insurance. Prof. Hoyt is Past President of the American Risk and Insurance Association, Past President of the Risk Theory Society, Past President of the Southern Risk and Insurance Association, and a Vice President of the International Insurance Society.  He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Journal of Insurance Regulation and on the editorial board of Risk Management and Insurance Review.  He is a trustee of the Griffith Foundation for Insurance Education, a director of the Spencer Educational Foundation and serves on the boards of Athens Regional Medical Center and Athens Area Health Plan Select.

Active as a consultant to public and private organizations, he has offered expert testimony relating to insurer bankruptcy and insurer operations, pension valuation, universal life insurance and insurance contract interpretation.

Aubie W. Knight, CIC, CRM
Chief Executive Officer, Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia, Inc.
Work - Life Balance
 

Aubie Knight is the Chief Executive Officer of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia.  He joined IIAG in 1996 after a four year stint as a successful group health insurance producer with the Mutual of Omaha Companies. Since joining IIAG, he has held key management positions in a number of different areas of IIAG’s operations, including education, errors and omissions, membership and premium finance.
 
In addition to his role within IIAG’s management, Aubie is widely recognized as a leading instructor of continuing education and pre-licensing classes. On a national level, he has been very involved with the IIABA E&O program, serving a six-year term on the Professional Liability Committee, as well as serving on a number of other working groups and task force related to E&O and loss control. 
 
Aubie is a graduate of the University of Georgia and also works with UGA’s Terry College of Business as a part-time instructor of Risk Management and Insurance courses. Outside of insurance and risk management, he serves on the Executive Committee of the Georgia Society of Association Executives (GSAE) as Chairman-Elect and is a 2009 graduate of GSAE’s Leadership Academy.
 
Aubie and his wife Dana live in Madison, Georgia, with their five daughters ranging in age from 4-14. In his spare time, he enjoys working out and participating in sprint triathlons and road races.

Jack Williams
Chief Executive Officer, The IDEALS Foundation, Inc.
Next Level Leadership

Jack Williams is a 1971 graduate of Georgia Tech with a degree in Behavioral Management.  While at Tech he earned three letters as a Quarterback on the football team and was named Team Captain.  His senior year he led his team a top 15 ranking.
 
Jack spent seven years as a college football coach after graduation.  He coached three years at Georgia Tech, two years at the University of Richmond and the final two years at the University of Virginia. 
 
After leaving the coaching profession, Jack was in sales for six years before beginning a twenty three year career in management.  During that time, he was VP and COO of a regional service company, and later was SVP of a $220 million division of a Fortune 500 company.
 
In the fall of 1998 Jack formed his own company, Competitive Resources Group, Inc. (CRG).  CRG was a niche recruiting firm that specializes in working with individuals who have collegiate or professional athletic backgrounds and placing them with companies who are looking for that competitive, team oriented, disciplined profile.   Jack later merged CRG with The SURVIS Group, a professional services and consulting firm, and Jack served as President and was responsible for both businesses for seven years.
 
Jack created the unique Apollo Leadership program being used by companies across the nation and is frequently requested to serve as a keynote speaker on a variety of leadership topics.
 
Jack has always had a passion for leadership and developing people.  In 1993 he formed the IDEALS Foundation, a non-profit organization that works with selected high school student athletes in the Metro Atlanta area in developing their leadership and personal skill sets. More than 1000 outstanding young people have been through this rigorous leadership program preparing them to be more effective leaders. In June of 2008, Jack left the SURVIS Group to pursue his dream of expanding The IDEALS program nationally. In 2010 he expanded his leadership program with the Student Athlete Leadership Team (SALT) Program. His goal is to have 75,000 high school student athletes participating in SALT each year.
 
In addition to the expansion of IDEALS, Jack and a partner formed National Teamworx Group, LLC in the summer of 2009. NTG is a sales organization that represents a unique fundraising program for non-profit organizations.
 
Jack has served as a volunteer executive with the Peach Bowl / Chick-fil-A Bowl organization for 14 years.  He’s held positions as Vice Chairman of the Bowl, served on the Team Selection Committee, the Strategic Planning Committee and the Executive Committee. He also recently served three years as President of the Georgia Tech National Letterwinners Association. Jack has been a member of Vistage International, the world’s largest CEO organization, completed the Executive Business Consortium at Emory University, as well as, studied at the Center for Creative Leadership in North Carolina.
 

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