Bobby Shomo is President of Shomo-Madsen Insurance which is headquartered in central Iowa. Shomo-Madsen Insurance is a Best Practices Agency recipient for six years running and represents approximately 16 Insurance Companies with an agency mix of roughly 45% Personal Lines, 25% Commercial Lines, 20% Municipalities and 10% Life and Health. The agency has five locations and 25 employees with their main office in Marshalltown, Iowa. They continue to pursue growth through both acquisition and organic growth and are scheduled to close their next agency purchase on October 30th, 2020. Bobby is involved in the agency on a full-time basis as a managing partner, a producer specializing in schools and municipalities and the Human Resources manager. Prior to purchasing his first agency, Bobby spent six years on the company side primarily in casualty claims with rotations in underwriting and loss control. His MBA was earned with concentrations in Finance and Accounting and he received his CIC designation in 2012. Bobby has a passion for education as both a teacher and a student. His background brings a perspective from both the company and agency sides. In addition, his agency experience has developed from a relatively small, single owner shop with three employees and a handful of contracts to his current structure with a 50/50 partner, multiple locations and staff of twenty-five. Additionally, Shomo-Madsen Insurance has had to deal with three catastrophic weather-related events in 25 months. An EF-3 tornado in July of 2018 that hit main street; a major hail storm in May of 2019 and a Derecho (106 mph straight-line winds) in August of 2020. Bobby is currently working toward his CRM designation.

Mark Gaskamp is a Senior Vice President for Marsh McLennan Agency in Austin, Texas. Mark is responsible for leading the risk management and loss control practice, along with a variety of other roles for the Austin office. Prior to joining the agency, Mark served as a Senior Underwriter for The St. Paul and Travelers organization. Before serving in an underwriting capacity, he held various positions in the St. Paul Risk Control unit. His responsibilities have included: Regional Supervisor, Risk Management Large Account Specialist, Regional Public Sector Specialist, and National Specialist for the Professional Specialty Unit. He worked closely with safety and risk management professionals to coordinate, develop, and implement accident prevention programs which positively impact the organizations overall cost of risk. Mark also served as a risk consultant for Corporate Systems, responsible for data analysis and risk management information consulting for Fortune 500 companies, third party administrators, and insurance carriers. Mark is very active in the safety and risk management community. He has served as national faculty member of The National Alliance Certified Risk Manager's program since 2003, and as an adjunct Risk Management professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a former president of the Central Texas Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers, and in 2009 he was the recipient of the Safety Professional of the Year for the ASSE Region III (Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas). He has served on the Central Texas safety committees for the Association of Building Contractors and Association of General Contractors. He has also served as the Chairman of the Risk Management Committee for the Rio Texas Methodist Conference comprising of over 300 churches in Texas and New Mexico. Mark has published numerous insurance and risk management articles, and presented at regional and national professional development conferences for numerous organizations, including the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS), Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA), Association of Building Contractors (ABC), Association of General Contractors (AGC), Insurances and Risk Management Institute (IRMI), and Public Risk & Insurance Management Association (PRIMA). Mark holds a BBA in Risk Management and Finance from the University of Texas at Austin. He has attained the following professional designations: Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC), Certified Risk Manager (CRM), Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Associate in Risk Management (ARM), Associate in Loss Control Management (ALCM), Certified Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU).