Bradley is a nationally recognized insurance agency owner and business enthusiast. He runs the day-to-day operations at Portal Insurance in Mobile, Alabama, a scratch independent agency he founded and is building on the back of social media, personal branding, content and technology. Bradley is the co-host of the “Insurance Guys Podcast,” one of the most listened to podcasts in the industry.

Carey Wallace started her career in a technology startup before finding her way into the insurance industry. While working for the Ohio Insurance Agents Association, Carey led the effort to build valuation and consulting services for agencies and built and led the first data-analytics company solely focused on independent insurance agencies, Agency Focus, LLC.

Through Chris Cline’s 25+ years in the insurance industry, he has established himself as an industry resource for topics such as perpetuation, merger and acquisition, culture, agency operations, marketing and sales, data and analytics, and has had multiple speaking engagements around these topics. As of spring 2022, Chris has begun assuming leadership of the Agents Council for Technology as ACT’s Executive Director.

Chris Paradiso is one of the most passionate and dynamic agency owners in the insurance industry today. Paradiso Insurance recently won Safeco and Liberty Mutual’s National Agent for the Future Award in 2019. Chris’s clear vision has helped direct other insurance agencies to push the envelope and find their own success through his coaching work with Paradiso Presents.

David R. Carothers, CIC, CRM, is the Principal of Florida Risk Partners, LLC, Catalyst Funding Solutions, LLC, the founder of Killing Commercial Insurance Training, Host of The Power Producers Podcast, and Creator/Producer of The Protégé. David is also the international best-selling author of The Extra 2 Minutes and a new book, The Dirty 130, hitting shelves in January 2022.

Jeff is fueled by three things—technology, people and big ideas. In 2016 Roy and his team at Excalibur launched the idea for what became the Aviva Ally product, and in 2018 Excalibur was recognized as the first-ever Safeco Agent of the Future. Jeff currently sits on the IBAO, IBAC, CSIO Innotech, CBN technology committees, and he does a podcast called the digital insurance pint podcast.

Matt Naimoli co-founded G&N Insurance out of Boston in 2010. He later co-launched the BobbleOn consulting and coaching platform, helping 70+ insurance agencies nationwide. Having led G&N through 9 straight 30%+ growth years, he sold to the HILB Group in 2019. He now heads the G&N division and provides marketing, sales, and growth guidance to the Hilb organization at large.

Mick Hunt is a highly successful entrepreneur who started an insurance agency from scratch and grew its revenue to $3.2 million in just 3 years. Motivated by his remarkable success, Mick decided to launch a platform to turbocharge other businesses' profits through RevOps solutions and SalesOps processes, which finally resulted in the formation of Premier Strategy Box.

Ryan Hanley is the founder of Rogue Risk, one of the fastest-growing national digital commercial insurance brokerages in the country. He's the host of the Ryan Hanley Show, the insurance industry's leading podcast and author of the Amazon bestselling book, Content Warfare.

Syd Roe is extremely passionate about one thing: helping the independent agent compete in the wild wild west of digital transformation. Her work at TrustedChoice.com, Agency Nation and b atomic has inspired thousands of agents across the country to embrace content marketing, social media, & video; craft a tech-stack unique to their operation; and weaponize their data.

Caleb Cramer leads independent agency adoption of Ascend. He’s spent his career building and scaling revenue organizations and considers himself lucky to apply his learnings within the insurance space—previously at AgencyZoom and The Shipyard. Based in Columbus, his favorite food is chicken tenders and he's always looking for the next tee time.