Rodney N Sargent, CIC

Email: abqlmj@r.postjobfree.com

Address: **** **** **** ****

City: Edmond

State: OK

Zip: 73003

Country: USA

Phone: 405-***-****

Skill Level: Any

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Primary Skills/Experience:

Visionary, innovative Insurance Leader (CEO, President, COO, CMO)

Educational Background:

Job History / Details:

RODNEY N. SARGENT, CIC www.linkedin/in/rodsargent 405-***-**** abqlmj@r.postjobfree.com

SENIOR INSURANCE EXECUTIVE

CEO PRESIDENT - GM - CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER CMO/CSO

REPEATEDLY PRODUCE INCREASED SALES, REVENUE, AND PROFIT MARGINS IN DYNAMIC AND CHANGING MARKETS.

PROVEN ACHIEVEMENTS IN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE CARRIER AND IN RETAIL & WHOLESALE AGENCY/ BROKERAGE.

EXTENSIVE BACKGROUND IN REINSURANCE & CAPITAL STRUCTURES, RATINGS MANAGEMENT, AND AFFINITY MARKET DEVELOPMENT.

GROWTH POSITIONING INTEGRITY EXCELLENCE

Visionary, energetic leader with verifiable year-after-year success growing sales, market share, and reducing expense ratios. Extensive experience in complex, highly specialized risk management products across diverse niche s, which require deep understanding of key business drivers, product development, profitability analysis and distribution management strategies. Highly successful in building relationships, seizing control of critical problem areas, and delivering on commitments. Customer focused and performance driven. Led and motivated teams from 35 to nearly 1,000 employees and managed P&L for business divisions exceeding $75M revenue. Demonstrated turn-around, liquidity implementation, brand building, and reputation management success.

STRENGTHS & EXPERTISE

Reinsurance Strategy, Structures, and Negotiation

Reputation Management

Corporate Governance

Turn Around / Liquidity Strategies

Investment Portfolio Management

Sales Design & Training Strategy, Vision & Mission Planning

P&L Steward (Statutory & GAAP)

Regulatory Relations / Compliance

Succession Planning

Human Resource Management

Enterprise Risk Management

M&A, New Ventures

Public Relations / Media Relations

Investor Relations Product Development

Financial Analysis & Management

Market Analysis & Forecasting

Contract Negotiations

Team Building, Culture Creation

Affinity & Niche Alliances

Distribution and Agency Relations

Captives, Sidecars, RRGs, ARTs

Underwriting & Claims Operations

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

Turned around unprofitable surety and D&O product lines - restructuring operations and implementing new tools, techniques & technology in underwriting, improving loss ratios from over 300 to under 96 in 36 months and leading to succesful liquidity event for founder.

Transformed brand identity for national insurance company - establishing renewed brand architecture and platform to uniquely express the operations, mission, and values internally and externally, synergizng cross-sell revenue growth by over $1M in fifteen months.

Reversed shrinking sales and revenue, established sustainable growth - re-engineering sales design, attracting and retaining world-class sales talent and augmenting organic growth with customer-centric cultural deveopment, growing marketshare by 6% and growing revenues by over 20%.

Raised $8.5M in new private equity investor capital implementing PR and IR strategies and restructuring capital management plans to maintain A- FSR with AM Best until liquidity events.

Acquired multiple subsidiaries enhanced cash flows structuring and negotiation M&A deals ranging from $2M to $200M.

Created world-class web/e-commerce organizations and first online call center in industry establishing teams, technologies, and frameworks for on-line products, services, and revenues for national insurers. Earning numerous ecommerce awards, cutting $12M from annual operating expenses, generating 2 business patents.

Generated entrepreneurial Strategic Business Units conceiving new organizations, products, & services to channel consumer preferences to overall brand offerings, increasing revenues by $2.5M.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sargent Holdings, LLC Oklahoma City, OK 2011 Present

dba Sargent Insurance and Risk Management

President / CEO / Founder

Bankers Multi State Insurance Holdings, Inc Oklahoma City, OK / Timonium, MD 2006 2011

Carrier: BancInsure, Inc

Agency: BMSI Marketing, Inc (retail) / Matterhorn Financial Services, Inc (Wholesale E&S)

Consulting : BancInsure Marketing, Inc

President / CEO / Director

Argo Group Limited (Argonaut Insurance Group, Inc) San Antonio, TX 2004 2005

Corporate Vice President & Chief Marketing & Sales Officer

USAA (United Services Automobile Association) San Antonio, TX 2002 2003

Vice President, Marketing & Sales Property & Casualty Companies

SAFECO Corporation / SAFECO Insurance Companies Seattle, WA 1992 2002

Assistant Vice President of Corporation

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND AFFILIATIONS

NACD, NCCI, DMA, PLUS, IIAA, PCI, NAMIC, CPCU, Society of CIC, NAPSLO, ACORD, NCCI, AAMGA, CIAB

IMCA, EAA, AOPA, ITEA

EDUCATION

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE - EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

Seattle University, Albers Graduate School of Business Seattle, WA, - 2000

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, PRE-MED, PHILOSOPHY

Portland State University Portland, OR - 1991

PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC)

P&C Producer, E&S Broker Licenses

IIAA founding member A.C.T.

Marketing Awards IMCA, IIAA, DMA

Publications / Articles - WSJ, NU, Agent

Pilot (Volunteer) Angel Flight / Grace Flight

Entrepreneurial Organization, (EO, Global)

Growing of Giants, Entrepreneurial Director OKC Philharmonic Board of Directors

Director BMSI Holdings & subsidiaries

Director - OKC Chamber Advisory

Radio / Television Appearances NPR, CNBC, MSNBC

Elected & appointed civic offices - numerous

Entrepreneurial Organization, Global

Panel Speaker NCCI, NAIC, ISOTECH, NAPSLO, PCI, ACORD, IVANS, PLUS, PCI conferences.

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