Lowry Baldwin has served as Chairman since co-founding the Company in 2011. Mr. Baldwin’s insurance career began in 1981 at Aetna Property & Casualty. Two years later, he joined Baldwin & Sons. In 1991, Mr. Baldwin and Chuck Davis merged their firms to found Davis Baldwin Insurance and Risk Management. In 2006, Mr. Baldwin and his partners, Elizabeth Krystyn and Laura Sherman, formed what is today the Middle Market Operating Group. In 2012, Mr. Baldwin and his partners formed Baldwin Risk Partners to serve as a holding company for further investment into the insurance brokerage space. In 1997, Mr. Baldwin co-founded Advantec Solutions, Inc., a national Professional Employer Organization serving small and mid-size businesses by providing outsourced payroll, human resources, employee benefits and benefits administration and workers compensation. Mr. Baldwin earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Wake Forest University.

Trevor Baldwin has served as Chief Executive Officer of the Company since May 2019 and has served as Director since September 2019. Mr. Baldwin joined what is today the Middle Market Operating Group in 2009 as a Commercial Risk Advisor working primarily with healthcare and private equity clients, over time he led the firm’s Commercial Risk Management Group as Managing Director, followed by being Baldwin Risk Partners’ President & Chief Operating Officer. Before joining Baldwin Risk Partners, Mr. Baldwin worked at the private equity firm HealthEdge Investment Partners, LLC. Mr. Baldwin graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Risk Management & Insurance.

Jay Cohen has served as a Director of the Company since June 2021. From 1995 to 2020, Mr. Cohen served as Managing Director of Equity Research at BofA Securities Inc., where he covered property and casualty insurance companies and insurance brokers.  From 1990 to 1995, Mr. Cohen was an Equity Research Analyst with Salomon Brothers. Prior to that, Mr. Cohen served as a Senior Representative, Bond Department with Aetna Casualty & Surety. Mr. Cohen is currently a Board Member of the United Way of Putnam and Westchester County and serves on the Parents Network Board of Claremont McKenna College. Mr. Cohen holds a BA in Managerial Economics from Union College and an MBA in finance from Columbia University.

Joseph J. Kadow has served as a Director of the Company since February 2020. From 2005 to 2019, Mr. Kadow served as the Chief Legal Officer of Bloomin’ Brands, Inc. Prior to his role as Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of Bloomin’ Brands, Inc., Mr. Kadow was Vice President and General Counsel of Bloomin’ Brands from 1994 until 2005. Prior to that, he served as a partner in the Orlando, Florida office of the national law firm, Baker Hostetler LLP. Mr. Kadow is a past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Restaurant Association and past Director, Audit committee member, and Chair of the Special Committee of Habit Restaurants, Inc. until March 2020, when Habit Restaurants, Inc. was acquired by Yum! Brands, Inc.  Mr. Kadow received his Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from the University of Scranton and his J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law at Pennsylvania State University.

Barbara Matas has served as a Director of the Company since February 2020. Ms. Matas has over 35 years of corporate finance and banking experience. From 2013 to 2016, Ms. Matas served as the Chairman of Citigroup’s Leveraged Finance business. Prior to serving as Chairman of Citigroup’s Leveraged Finance business, Ms. Matas was Head and Co-Head of the group from 2006 to 2013. Ms. Matas joined Citicorp in 1985 and held various other leadership positions in leveraged finance and high yield capital markets at Citicorp, Salomon Brothers and Citigroup until 2006. Currently, Ms. Matas serves as a director of Apollo Investment Corporation, a position she has held since 2017, and a director of Sleep Number Corporation (formerly known as Select Comfort) since 2016. Ms. Matas holds a B.S. in accounting and quantitative analysis from New York University and an M.B.A. in corporate finance from the University of Michigan.

Sathish Muthukrishnan was named chief information, data and digital officer for Ally Financial Inc. in December 2019. In this role, Muthukrishnan is responsible for advancing Ally’s technical and digital capabilities, including cyber security and infrastructure, and accelerating the company’s growth and evolution as a leader in the digital financial services sector. He is based in Ally’s Charlotte corporate center and reports to Ally CEO Jeffrey J. Brown. Sathish has held a number of senior technology leadership roles with substantial scale and global reach, and previously served as the first chief digital and information officer for Honeywell Aerospace, a nearly $14 billion revenue business within Honeywell International. He brings to Ally more than 20 years of technology leadership experience in complex businesses with high availability and reliability requirements on their technology, ten of which were spent in financial services with American Express prior to joining Honeywell. Sathish graduated from University of Madras with a degree in engineering specializing in computer science. He is a member of the Advisory Board of WIT International and was recipient of the Chairman’s Award for Innovation for several years at American Express. Muthukrishnan has over 25 filed patents in the manufacturing, payments and the digital technology space.

Chris Sullivan has served as a Director of the Company since September 2019. Mr. Sullivan is a founder of Outback Steakhouse, and former Chairman & CEO of Outback Steakhouse. From February 1991 to March 2005, Mr. Sullivan was CEO of OSI Restaurant Partners, Inc. (now OSI Restaurant Partners, LLC). Since 2012, Mr. Sullivan continues to serve as Chairman of MenuPad Inc. and since 2013, Mr. Sullivan continues to serve as Chairman of Omnivore Technologies, Inc. Since 2014, Mr. Sullivan continues to serve as Co-Chair of Consul Partners LLC. Currently, Mr. Sullivan serves as the Co-Chairman and Board of Directors for The First Tee of Tampa Bay, and Board of Directors for Copperhead Charities and Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans. Mr. Sullivan is active in numerous charitable organizations focusing on education, catastrophic diseases, and is Chairman of ART International, a PTSD focused nonprofit group. Mr. Sullivan received a BS in business and economics in 1972 from the University of Kentucky.

Ms. Parasuraman currently serves as the Head of Investments, New Product Experimentation at Meta (Facebook), focused on investing in early-stage startups. Prior to that, she served as Facebook’s Global Head of Treasury and as Head of Treasury for Facebook’s blockchain initiative. She serves on the board and on the finance, governance, and nomination committees of the IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation. Ms. Parasuraman holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, a master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Mr. Williams previously served as the Sales Strategy and Sales Operations President at United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS). In this role, he oversaw data analytics, sales budget, sales compensation and performance, CRM technology, business development, sales strategy and training, process improvement, negotiations, and executive presentations. Mr. Williams has extensive board experience. He has served or serves on the following boards: the MARCH (Mutual Alliance Restoring Community Hope Foundation) Board; VisionX, a Machine Vision and Machine Learning AI Company, as an Advisory Board Member; Atlanta Public Schools CTAE Board, as Chairman; the Career Training Agricultural and Education Board; the Business Administration & Economics Board at Morehouse College; the Albert W. Smith Scholarship Committee Board; The Center for Advance Logistics Management Board at Albany State University; and the 100 Black Men Board. Mr. Williams holds a B.B.A. from Albany State University in Albany, GA, and a M.B.A. from Florida Metropolitan University at Tampa College.
 

Ms. Shook currently serves as the Chief Leadership and Human Resources Officer for Accenture, a global professional services company. She is focused on helping the 674,000 people of Accenture succeed both professionally and personally. Prior to that, Ms. Shook held Chief Human Resources and Global Human Resources roles with Accenture. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shaper Community Foundation Board, the Women’s Leadership Board of the Women and Public Policy program at Harvard’s Kennedy School, and serves on the board of directors for Paradigm for Parity and the HR Policy Association. She also serves on the executive committee of the Professional Roundtable of CHROs and is active in both the NY Jobs CEO Council and HR50. Ms. Shook holds a B.S. from Purdue University.