Meet the Team
Co-Founder and CEO
Craig Clemons
With a c-suite Fortune 500 background and recently serving as Vice President, PR and Business Development for the world's most successful franchised staffing company (600,000 associates and 65,000 customers worldwide earning $3.5B annually), Craig co-founded Reinsurance Specialties in 2019 with a focus on Business Development, Client Education, Compliance, Branding, Communication and Customer Relations.
Today, Reinsurance Specialties is the top marketplace representative of the PORC model made popular by the passing of 831(b) election legislation by President Ronald Reagan/Congress in 1986.
General Counsel
Reagan Allen
Having worked at top law firms in the midwest including Crowe Dunlevy, Reagan Allen was awarded Oklahoma Super Lawyer's Rising Star in Business Litigation. Reagan's legal advice for prospective clients is invaluable in the space of compliance, tax filings, captive structure, generational wealth transfer and much more. Conclusion from Reagan's research and often-counseled exchange with business leaders: "A privately held 831(b) captive can potentially save 20-30% annually in income taxes allowing that extra cash to be retained within a business family to protect and strengthen the business enterprise group."
President
Randy Kamp
A recognized name in Oklahoma and having earned his CPA and Juris Doctorate degrees, Randy Kamp is a strategic subject matter expert associated with our best-in-class reinsurance model. Randy is also the President and CEO, KampCo Foods and recently owned the Johnny Carin's restaurant chain across the midwest. As a successful entrepreneur, Randy provides invaluable insights, risk management consultation, and best-practice applications. Quote: *I love helping business owners better understand how to apply this strategic tool to advance business goals and objectives. Many colleagues enjoy compliantly moving pre-tax monies off of their balance sheet via self-insurance."
Marketer
Wade Tower
Wade Tower was celebrated at Mass Mutual for TOP PRODUCER and received numerous sales, production and client services awards over several decades. With a commercial P&C background and understanding how traditional premium/deductability can be mitigated and adjusted through reinsurance and a PORC captive model, Wade is an excellent communicator and recognized specialist within groups of regional business leaders. Upon unpacking business model and illustrating the value proposition and competitive advantages of Reinsurance Specialties, Wade likes to say, "If a business owner has grown tired of paying excessive premiums to a commercial P&C. only to file zero or very few claims over a period of years, they should absolutelv look at self-insuring relevant corporate risks and begin enjoying the same level of underwriting profits.
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Lalania Cobb
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Robert Furgeson
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Sales and Digital Assets
Aaron Galindo
Having an impressive career and professional experiences with Automobile Dealership ownerships, being a Co-Founder and Owner of a corporate chain of Coffee Houses and partnering with trending craft brewery operators gives Nick exceptional insights in how reinsurance can be used to cover a business leader's corporate risks to include all of their LLCs, C-Corps, S-Corps, Holding Companies, Property Management Companies and more. Nick states, "Business owners our often unaware of their significant risk exposures until they complete an actuarial interview and the formal actuarial report/summary comes back. As much as 27% of an organization's top line revenue has been identified by a third-party, licensed Actuary in terms of a business leader's uninsured and under-insured risk exposures."
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Rodney Norris
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President/Automotive
Scott Roberts
Wade Tower was celebrated at Mass Mutual for TOP PRODUCER and received numerous sales, production and client services awards over several decades. With a commercial P&C background and understanding how traditional premium/deductability can be mitigated and adjusted through reinsurance and a PORC captive model, Wade is an excellent communicator and recognized specialist within groups of regional business leaders. Upon unpacking business model and illustrating the value proposition and competitive advantages of Reinsurance Specialties, Wade likes to say, "If a business owner has grown tired of paying excessive premiums to a commercial P&C. only to file zero or very few claims over a period of years, they should absolutelv look at self-insuring relevant corporate risks and begin enjoying the same level of underwriting profits.
Marketer
Trey Simms
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With professional experiences in the customer service space, Trey is a consummate leader and widely known in the marketplace for presentation, education, diplomatic follow-up and heloful advice/counsel servicing his clients. A great contribution to the Reinsurance Specialty team, Trey eagerly navigates prospective customers through the sales cycle and onboarding process through a series of sequential and well-defined steps. Trey loves to claim, "Once business leaders are identified and qualified (typically, those earning $1M or more in top line revenue), my job is to help educate them on 831(b) election and our fabulous model. Many business leaders do not know the IRC allows for self-insurance and, of course, we always use a third-party licensed Actuary to help identify and qualify the enterorise risk profile. This element (exposing under-insured and uninsured risk)
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Marcela Martinez
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Laurie Ballweber
Focused on educating business leaders earning $1M to $85M in industries ranging from print/media services to medicine to residential/commercial roofing to wealth management and financial services, Laurie leverages nearly 30 years of sales/leadership in this role. Trusted as a value-oriented representative and often volunteering in faith-based organizations, Laurie is a trusted resource and go to contact serving business leaders from Wyoming to the Dakotas to states in the midwest and southwest. Operating from Reinsurance Specialties headquarters in Oklahoma City, Laurie can be found knocking down doors to engage business leaders who don't yet know the benefits of PORC captive structures. Laurie adds, "If a business has :45 minutes and is open to explore how captive insurance can help them manage risks, mitigate claims, control cash flow and protect assets, I can
Office Manager
Kay Bale
With nearly 40 ears in the service space to include residential real estate, commercial real estate and traditional insurance, Kay brings a wealth of knowledge and 'can do' attitude to both the reinsurance industry and, specifically, the Reinsurance Specialty team. D Whether Kay is arranging in-person meetings with our valued clients, updating data in systems, helping a customer with questions or inquiries, Kay is a reliable and courteous resource serving both internal and external constituents. Kay states, "I love my job especially helping our insured clients explore ways to leverage their captive structure and better run their business enterprises. Our policy is no question is too broad or too specialized and we can deliver a response in minutes or, at most. within a 24 hour period. Having a team with 30+ years of professional experience in the insurance space is extremely helpful and allows us to correctly serve our customers."
Vice President, Sales and Digital Assets
Nick Jackson
Having an impressive career and professional experiences with Automobile Dealership ownerships, being a Co-Founder and Owner of a corporate chain of Coffee Houses and partnering with trending craft brewery operators gives Nick exceptional insights in how reinsurance can be used to cover a business leader's corporate risks to include all of their LLCs, C-Corps, S-Corps, Holding Companies, Property Management Companies and more. Nick states, "Business owners our often unaware of their significant risk exposures until they complete an actuarial interview and the formal actuarial report/summary comes back. As much as 27% of an organization's top line revenue has been identified by a third-party, licensed Actuary in terms of a business leader's uninsured and under-insured risk exposures."
