What have the highlights and challenges been during your tenure at Schaefer Enterprises?
“The highlight has been being nominated by INC. magazine as one of the 5,000 fastest growing privately held companies in the US. We ranked #17 among insurance companies with a 95% retention rate of our customers.
The challenges have been to find or create new markets for the companies with high & medium rate of exposures, especially since the number of insurance providers has decreased significantly due to excessive claims in the construction sector over the last few years.”
How has your previous employment experience aided your tenure at Schaefer Enterprises?
“Having started from the bottom up in the insurance business, has given me a great understanding of how time consuming or difficult certain parts of the job are. It gives me the opportunity to praise my team for a job well done or to demand more from them if needed.
Additionally, I developed skills to positively influence underwriters and capitalized on premium credits and coverage advantages. I learned to provide my customers with unique solutions depending on their insurance needs.”
What do you want Schaefer Enterprises to accomplish in the next year?
“We started our agency with 3 people, now we have over 15 employees. We are working on exclusive programs for urgent care market and the food industry as well as the construction industry. I am really confident that we will open those programs in 2015 and that would give us enormous advantage in insurance market.”
