Gibson

Gibson

Gibson is a team of risk management and employee benefits professionals with a passion for helping leaders look beyond what others see and get to the proactive side of insurance. As an employee-owned company, Gibson is driven by close relationships with their clients, employees, and the communities they serve. The first Gibson office opened in 1933 in Northern Indiana, and as the company’s reach grew, so did their team. Today, Gibson serves clients across the country from offices in Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Utah.

Recent posts by Gibson

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Patrick Harpenau

By Gibson on Dec 27, 2024 9:38:46 AM

Professional Experience

Patrick is Employee Benefits Growth Officer and a principal at Gibson. He leads strategy and sales for the employee benefits practice, guiding his team to focus on value-based solutions that emphasize long-term, results-based outcomes for clients. Patrick is responsible for championing innovation, sales processes, insurance carrier relationships, and leadership development of senior team members.  

Topics: Employee Benefits Practice
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Jon Slusser

By Gibson on Dec 27, 2024 9:26:44 AM

Professional Experience

Jon is Commercial Risk Management Growth Officer and a principal at Gibson. Jon oversees strategy and sales for CRM. He is responsible for driving innovation, optimizing sales processes, managing relationships with insurance carriers, and fostering leadership development among senior team members.

Topics: Commercial Risk Management

Beth Soberg

By Gibson on Nov 4, 2024 3:51:19 PM

Professional Experience

Beth is an Executive Advisor to Gibson. She is a former health care executive with over 40 years of experience leading high performing teams for a Fortune 5 company. Her responsibilities included P&L ownership with over $11b in revenue and 3 million members in the commercial market segment. Beth has built diverse markets leveraging product innovation, disciplined financial performance and collaborative market level relationships with providers, brokers, employers and governments.

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Diane Davidson

By Gibson on Nov 4, 2024 9:27:30 AM

Professional Experience

Diane is the Practice Leader in Commercial Risk Management and part of the executive leadership team at Gibson. She is responsible for oversight of the commercial operations team leaders, including monitoring performance standards, maintaining carrier relationships, and implementing strategic plans. She provides them with guidance and support for delivering the Gibson Client Experience and achieving the strategic goals of the agency and clients.

Topics: Commercial Risk Management Education & Public Entities Leadership Team

Taylor Covey

By Gibson on Oct 31, 2024 3:07:23 PM

Professional Experience

Taylor is a principal and consultant in the employee benefits practice. He is responsible for working with employers to provide an analysis of their existing employee benefits and assist with the implementation of new or redesigned programs.

Prior to joining Gibson, Taylor was a partner at Insurance Network/Brisk Advisors.

Topics: Commercial Insurance Board of Directors Commercial Risk Management
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Courtney Montfort

By Gibson on Oct 31, 2024 3:07:05 PM

Professional Experience

Courtney is a Managing Principal for Gibson Indianapolis. In that capacity, she is responsible for management, support, and overall growth for the central Indiana marketplace. She also serves as a Sales Team Leader and Risk Advisor, specializing in National Account customers including those experiencing Merger & Acquisitions, multi-state risks, and alternative risk financing arrangements. Courtney specializes in identifying business, strategic, and hazard risk exposures. She also consults with clients to develop and implement strategies to effectively and efficiently grow and protect their businesses. Courtney has been a Vistage Worldwide Member since 2023, and has been on Gibson's Board of Directors since December, 2020.

Topics: Board of Directors Commercial Risk Management
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Chad Hahn

By Gibson on Oct 31, 2024 3:06:38 PM

Professional Experience

Chad is a Principal and Consultant in the Employee Benefits Practice. He is responsible for working with employers to provide an analysis of their existing employee benefit program and assisting with the implementation of new or redesigned programs.

Topics: Board of Directors Employee Benefits Practice
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Jeff Terrill

By Gibson on May 25, 2023 1:32:55 PM

Professional Experience

Jeff Terrill is a healthcare industry leader and expert at growth strategy development and execution success. His vast experience includes both mature markets with large established brands such as Aetna and Cigna and emerging markets with smaller venture/growth equity-based companies such as EXOS and Marathon Health. 

Topics: Board of Directors

Mark Bundy

By Gibson on May 25, 2023 1:31:06 PM

Professional Experience

Mark Bundy is the former COO of the Mountain West Series, Lockton Companies, LLC. He helped grow the company from $12M in revenue and 100 associates to $160M in revenue and over 500 associates.

Mark continues to provide consultation to firms and individuals in growth, profitability, recruitment, and retention.

Topics: Board of Directors
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Laura Butler

By Gibson on May 2, 2023 1:34:06 PM

Professional Experience

As Practice Leader of Employee Benefits, Laura is responsible for supporting the internal service team in growth and development strategies through operational excellence.  As a member of the Leadership Team, she is accountable to clients for their partnership experience with Gibson.
  
Prior to joining Gibson, Laura spent fifteen years at another firm where she worked with both fully insured and self-funded employers ranging in size from 15 to 1300 employee lives. Laura’s consulting strengths were in strategically leading clients through challenging renewals, developing long-term benefit strategies, and focusing on employee health and well-being through data analytics. Over her 15 years, her client retention was an area of recognition in the market. In addition to serving clients directly, she contributed organizationally through mergers and acquisitions, developed and enhanced service delivery models, as well as led various product development teams. Laura’s strengths lie in strategic ideation, vision execution, project management, and process development and improvement.

Laura also has a long history in the corporate health and well-being space, having previously served on the board of the Wellness Council of Indiana.  During this time, she contributed strategically to their AchieveWELL award recognition experience for employers, served applying organizations as a mentor, as well as led to the founding of best-practice sharing sessions.

Topics: Employee Benefits
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Hugh Reynolds

By Gibson on May 18, 2021 3:14:33 PM

Professional Experience

Hugh Reynolds is a retired partner of Crowe LLP. He was formerly the Partner-in-Charge of Crowe’s Benefit Plan Services Group, the Office Managing Partner of Crowe’s Fort Lauderdale office, a former 3-term Board Member of Crowe LLP. He is a current Board Member for Creative Financial Services, Inc. a 100% ESOP owned company.

Mr. Reynolds’ areas of expertise include qualified retirement plans, including 401(k) plans, money purchase pension plans and Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs); qualified and nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements and compensation systems. He has 35 years of consulting experience regarding ERISA and ESOPs and was the leader of Crowe’s national ESOP retirement plan services practice, which performs compliance and consulting services for over 500 ESOP companies.

Topics: Board of Directors
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Brock Squire

By Gibson on Oct 9, 2019 2:17:46 PM

Professional Experience

Brock is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and part of the executive leadership team at Gibson. In this role Brock is responsible for driving operational and strategic leadership in the key areas of system conversion, operational efficiency, carrier partnerships, and product & service innovation. As COO, Brock holds the Leadership Team accountable for achieving company goals while ensuring all employees are rowing in the same direction. Employing clear communication, transparency, and training, Squire is dedicated to maintaining operational excellence and consistency with our employees, clients and partners.

Topics: Administration Leadership Team Human Resources Strategic Leadership

Tiffany Sauder

By Gibson on Apr 9, 2019 12:07:30 PM

Professional Experience

Tiffany is the founder of one of the fastest-growing marketing agencies in the Midwest, Element Three. She started her career as a financial analyst with Eli Lilly and quickly decided that her ability to understand and the love of real time data could be used to develop distinct marketing strategies.

Topics: Board of Directors
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David Walters

By Gibson on Feb 25, 2016 5:28:00 PM

Professional Experience

David is Gibson’s President and a principal, responsible for defining, communicating, and executing the organization’s overarching vision, mission, and strategic direction. In this role, he ensures that all team members—from principals and managers to frontline employees—are guided, supported, and evaluated as they carry out the company’s daily operations. In addition to overseeing Gibson’s long-term organizational strategy, he focuses on enhancing the client and employee experience while fostering a high-performing culture that aligns with the company’s core values. Prior to becoming President, David led Gibson’s commercial risk management practice.

Topics: Commercial Risk Management Education & Public Entities Health & Human Services Leadership Team
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Tim Leman

By Gibson on Feb 18, 2016 4:49:00 PM

Professional Experience

Tim is Chairman and CEO at Gibson. He joined Gibson in 2005 as the Director of the Employee Benefits Practice and became a principal in 2007. He was named President in 2009, CEO in 2011, and elected Chairman of the Board in 2014.

Topics: Board of Directors Leadership Team Strategic Leadership
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Nicole Fallowfield

By Gibson on Feb 18, 2016 3:37:00 PM

Professional Experience

Nicole is a principal and the Chief People Officer at Gibson. She is focused on providing the best employee experience by enhancing organizational culture and ensuring employees thrive. Nicole previously served as Gibson's Director of Wellbeing and Employee Benefits Operations, and most recently, Director of Administration.

Topics: Administration Employee Benefits Practice Leadership Team