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Practice Leaders
Robb Williams President

Robb Williams

President

Robb has an extensive background in all areas of Professional Liability. Robb joined FoundersPro in November 2009. He started his insurance career in 1994 with The Westfield Insurance Companies as a Property & Casualty Marketing Manager. Prior to joining FoundersPro, Robb spent ten years with various operations of Brown & Brown Insurance, including most recently Peachtree Special Risk as Vice President and Professional Liability Broker.

Robb holds a bachelor of science in business from Southern Illinois University and an MBA from The University of Toledo.

Robb is the Lawyers Professional Liability Practice Team Leader at FoundersPro and he focuses exclusively on law firms.

Robb.Williams@founderspro.com

Direct : 727.498.6503

Mark Dion

Vice President & Professional Liability Practice Leader

Mark has an extensive background in all areas of professional liability insurance but has specialized in Lawyers Professional Liability. Mark joined Founders Professional in March 2018. He started his insurance career in 2000 as a customer service representative with a local Tampa State Farm agency. Prior to joining Founders Professional, Mark spent over 15 years within various operations functions of Brown & Brown Insurance, including but not limited to lawyers professional liability underwriter, regional marketing manager, and most recently V.P. at Peachtree Special Risk.

Mark holds a B.A. in finance from the University of South Florida.

Mark is a Professional Liability Practice Leader at Founders Professional primarily focusing on coverage for law firms in the Northeastern United States, as well as errors and omissions coverage for other miscellaneous classes of business.

Mark.Dion@founderspro.com

Direct: 813.374.3443

Aaron Lipson

National Business Development Leader

Aaron joined Founders Professional in July 2015. Aaron brings an extensive background in marketing and business development to FoundersPro. Before joining FoundersPro, Aaron worked as the Director of Marketing for Paragon Underwriters, an independent insurance agency that is a state administrator of numerous professional liability insurance programs. While there he focused on marketing and sales of niche insurance programs to professional firms and associations. Prior to that Aaron worked for NBC Universal Television Group doing advertising sales, working with global brands such as Disney Cruise Lines and Walmart.

Aaron is known and appreciated for his knowledge of technology and abilities in customer support and service. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration/Prelaw from Michigan State University.

Aaron focuses on business development and corporate marketing for all of the FoundersPro verticals, while specializing in the placement of lawyers professional liability insurance for small law firms.

Aaron.Lipson@founderspro.com

Direct : 312.219.6589

Linda Wright

Healthcare Professional Practice Leader

Linda brings almost 30 years of insurance experience to FoundersPro. She joined FoundersPro as the Healthcare Professional Liability Practice Leader in July 2013. Linda’s prior experience includes 6 ½ years with RPS Healthcare, a wholesale intermediary that focuses exclusively in the medical professional field. Her most recent position with RPS was Area Vice President for the Tampa regional office. Prior to joining RPS Healthcare, Linda spent 16 years in leadership roles within the Brown & Brown, Inc. organization. Her responsibilities included Profit Center Manager, Retail Management, Sales Management, National Program Management, and Regional/National Marketing positions.

Linda earned her BA in Business Management with the University of South Florida.

Linda is the Healthcare Professional Liability Practice Leader at FoundersPro. Linda and her team focus on the placement of medical professional, regulatory liability and ancillary lines for the healthcare, life sciences, and social service industries.

Linda.Wright@founderspro.com

Direct : 727.873.7915

Gwynne Wright

Architects & Engineers Practice Leader

Gwynne joined FoundersPro in August 2012. Gwynne started her insurance career in 1999 with the St. Paul Companies handling Commercial Auto Claims, then in 2003 joined AIG. At AIG, Gwynne was the Professional Lines underwriter specializing in Lawyers, Miscellaneous Professional Liability, Accountants and Employment Practices Liability

Gwynne holds a BBA in Management from Marshall University.

Gwynne is the Architects & Engineers Practice Leader at FoundersPro. Gwynne and her team focus on the placement of professional liability and environmental exposures coverage for Architects, Engineers and other Design Professionals as well as professional liability for small law firms when needed.

Gwynne.Wright@founderspro.com

Direct : 727.873.7920

Chris Monfort

Miscellaneous Professional Practice Leader

Chris has an extensive background in management, sales and customer service. Chris joined FoundersPro in February 2010.

Chris holds a BA in marketing from the University of North Florida.

Chris is the Miscellaneous Professional Liability practice leader at FoundersPro. He and his team focus on finding professional liability solutions for insurance agents & brokers, accountants, title agents and miscellaneous classes of professions. When needed Chris also assists with the placement of small law firms.

Chris is a huge University of Florida fan, Go Gators! He also loves spending time with his family, friends and two kids.

Chris.Monfort@founderspro.com

Direct : 727.498.6505

Dan Vecchio

Executive Vice President and Management Liability Practice Leader

Dan provides consulting and technical expertise to commercial customers for Directors and Officers Liability Insurance, Employment Practices Liability Insurance, Fiduciary Liability Insurance, Fidelity Bonds and all classes of Professional Liability Insurance.

Dan’s career spans more than 28 years, all of which has focused on management liability and related coverages. Dan has high expertise in publicly traded companies, as well as non-traditional solutions to solve unique and complex management liability problems.

Dan began his insurance career as a D&O underwriter, and underwrote some of the most financially challenged banks and savings and loans in the mid-1980s. Dan was also a retail broker for numerous high-profile companies, including many in the Fortune 500.

Dan is a graduate of Northern Illinois University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Dan is the Management Liability Practice Leader at FoundersPro. Dan and his team work hand-in-hand with our retail partners providing solutions to their tough management liability accounts.

Dan.Vecchio@founderspro.com

Direct : 312.219.6588

Matt DeCew

Professional Liability Practice Leader

Matt has over 12 years of experience as a professional liability broker. He started at a National wholesale insurance brokerage as a part time file scanner moving up through the ranks in multiple roles as an assistant broker, service/processing team manager, accounting department assistant, and head agency management/processing system trainer.  Matt specializes in the placement of professional liability insurance risks across a broad range of industries. His knowledge of the West Coast market and the unique exposures presented to businesses in this area of the Country will serve as an invaluable resource to Founders retail partners.

Matt.DeCew@founderspro.com

Direct: 714.865.3215

Raffi Kodikian

Vice President & Lawyers Professional Liability Practice Leader

Raffi Kodikian began his insurance career in San Francisco in 2004, starting on the ground floor as an administrative assistant and office manager, and quickly growing to add Assistant Broker to his resume. It wasn’t long before Raffi was broking his own accounts, with a focus on Lawyers Professional Liability, working both on program business and open-brokerage products. Given the volume of attorneys in California, Lawyers Professional Liability soon became the cornerstone of his book, and since that time Raffi has placed coverage for firms of all sizes and Areas of Practice. His focus has been on California firms, a market unlike any other in the country, though he has placed firms in states all across the US.

Raffi graduated from Northeastern University in Boston in 1997 with a BA in Journalism.

Raffi hails from the Philadelphia area where, as a child, he languished as an Eagles fan, but is now known by his newly-earned nickname: Champ.

Raffi.Kodikian@founderspro.com

Direct : 415.850.8503

Jackie McMullen

Vice President, Professional & Cyber Liability Broker

Jackie joined Founders Professional in November 2015 with an extensive background in customer service and business management. Starting at the assistant broker role, Jackie has learned every aspect of the business from assisting brokers and practice leaders to running her own book of business. She takes pride in working with the whole team to ensure our partners are top priority.

Jackie is a Lawyers Professional and Cyber Liability Broker and focuses on finding primary and excess professional liability solutions for all size law firms with a variety of AOP’s and claims history. With her widespread knowledge of the markets and the coverages needed for each unique risk, Jackie is a valuable resource for our retail partners. Jackie also handles cyber liability placement for a broad range of industries.

In her free time, Jackie enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter and cheering on the Florida State Seminoles. GO NOLES!

Jackie.McMullen@founderspro.com

Direct: 727.873.7913

Jaimee Williams

Senior Vice President and Professional Liability Practice Leader

Jaimee specializes in the placement of lawyers professional liability. Jaimee joined founders in January 2011 starting her career on the medical professional and miscellaneous professional teams, eventually landing on the lawyers professional team where she has grown her book of business for many years.

Jaimee holds a B.A. of Psychology from the University of South Florida.

Jaimee is a Practice Leader at Founders Professional specializing in the placement of hard to place law firms across the Midwest and Southeast Regions, as well as errors and omissions coverage for other miscellaneous classes of business.

Jaimee.Williams@founderspro.com

Direct : 727.873.7916

Jackie Jacobs

Professional and Management Liability Practice Leader

Jackie has worked for Founders since 2019. During her time here she has excelled and been promoted to Practice Leader due to her leadership and organizational skills, as well as her extensive knowledge of all things professional and management liability.

Having worked in the insurance industry for 13 years, Jackie knows the ins and outs of the professional and management liability space. Specifically, professional liability insurance for architects & engineers, insurance agents, real estate agents, and financial/investment advisors. Jackie is also very knowledgeable in the areas of not-for-profit and private company management liability exposures.

Jackie holds a B.A. in Risk Management and Insurance from Troy University.

Her knowledge, experience and deep network of relationships makes her a valued asset to our team.

Jackie.Jacobs@founderspro.com

Direct: 813.765.9897

Jeff Steen, CIC, RPLU

Vice President

Jeff began his commercial insurance career in 1999 as a retail broker specializing in architects & engineers’ professional liability.  For almost two decades, Jeff handled the insurance and risk management needs for his clients and formed a broad-based knowledge of all lines of commercial insurance.  Jeff joined Founders Professional as part of the new west coast office in December 2017.

Jeff is a wholesale professional liability broker specializing in design & construction professionals.  He also works on contractors, design/build and miscellaneous professional. 

Jeff has a degree in Finance from the University of San Diego.  He also holds the insurance designations of Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC) and Registered Professional Liability Underwriter (RPLU).

Jeff.Steen@founderspro.com

Direct : 858.350.5917