Download the 2026 Insurance Luminaries Awards Program


Brokerage of the Year

  • Aon
  • Leavitt Group
  • NSI Insurance Group
  • Personal Risk Management Solutions
  • POWERS Insurance & Risk Management
  • The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers — WINNER

Excellence in Community Outreach

  • CMR Risk & Insurance Services, Inc.
  • Damion Riley Sr.
  • USI Insurance Services — WINNER

Executive of the Year

  • Celia Santana
  • Scott Denbo
  • William Denbo — WINNER

Rising Star of the Year

  • Cole Hairston
  • Gio Favazza
  • Lindsey Jordan — WINNER
  • Raquel Holguin Toledo

Thought Leader of the Year

  • Dana Sutton — WINNER
  • Leticia Trevino
  • Rebecca Schoonmaker

Agency of the Year

  • Champion Risk & Insurance Services
  • Insurance Center of Buffalo
  • National Real Estate Insurance Group
  • POWERS Insurance & Risk Management — WINNER
  • Rate Insurance
  • RIGHTSURE, INC
  • The Bulow group Inc
  • The Free Agency, LLC

Excellence in Customer Experience

  • All Solutions Insurance Agency
  • Mylo — WINNER
  • Rate Insurance

Excellence in Risk Management

  • National Real Estate Insurance Group — WINNER
  • POWERS Insurance & Risk Management

Excellence in Workplace Culture

  • Heil & Heil Insurance Agency, LLC
  • TheZebra.com — WINNER

Executive of the Year

  • Brooke Beets — WINNER
  • Jacqui Price
  • Lara Mazza

Product or Service Innovation

  • Rancho Mesa Insurance Services, Inc.
  • Rate Insurance — WINNER

Rising Star of the Year

  • Dalton Knutson
  • Georgia Schelberger — WINNER
  • Shantelle Cabir

Thought Leader of the Year

  • Gemma Ros — WINNER
  • Jeff Arnold

Claims Leader of the Year

  • Andrew Leeds
  • Trevor McDonald — WINNER

Excellence in Claims Management

  • Care West Insurance Company — WINNER
  • Texas Mutual Insurance Company

Excellence in Community Outreach

  • Prasath Parthiban — WINNER
  • Paul Roberts

Excellence in Customer Experience

  • Care West Insurance Company
  • COUNTRY Financial — WINNER
  • HAI Group
  • Orion180

Excellence in Marketing/PR

  • Liberty Mutual — WINNER
  • Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company (PLM)
  • Pie Insurance

Excellence in Risk Management

  • Ryan Hodges — WINNER
  • Ryan Vigus

Excellence in Workplace Culture

  • HAI Group — WINNER
  • Travelers

Executive of the Year

  • Alex Azevedo do Prado
  • Brent Radeloff
  • Douglas Benalan
  • Kenneth Gregg
  • Marissa Prestimonico
  • Renée Lunceford — WINNER

Product or Service Innovation

  • Midwest Employers Casualty
  • Orion180 — WINNER

Rising Star of the Year

  • Lindsey DiGangi
  • Mike Hickey — WINNER
  • Sam Reeder

Thought Leader of the Year

  • Alex Azevedo do Prado
  • Benjamin Burch
  • Mark Walls
  • Robert "Bob" Ritchie — WINNER

Excellence in Catastrophe Response

  • Cotality — WINNER
  • Kyber
  • Nearmap

Excellence in Claims Management

  • Ampion Group, LLC
  • Assurant
  • Covenir
  • Five Sigma
  • Optimalex
  • Roadzen — WINNER

Excellence in Community Outreach

  • ACORD
  • Anna Conger
  • Reed Smith LLP — WINNER

Excellence in Customer Experience

  • Accelerant
  • Covenir
  • Exdion Insurance
  • EZLynx
  • insured.io
  • Pibit.AI
  • ReSource Pro — WINNER

Excellence in Employee Advocacy

  • Maiclaire Bolton Smith
  • Tim Nickerson — WINNER

Excellence in Marketing/PR

  • Anna Conger — WINNER
  • Caliber Corporate Advisers
  • Covenir

Excellence in Risk Management

  • Duck Creek Technologies
  • Optimalex
  • Pibit.AI
  • Reed Smith LLP
  • Xceedance — WINNER

Excellence in Workplace Culture

  • Accelerant
  • Cotality Insurance
  • Input 1
  • Kyber — WINNER
  • MediaAlpha
  • Staff Boom

Executive of the Year

  • April Willers
  • Arvind Sontha
  • Awais Farooq
  • Chris Touchton
  • David Squibb
  • Heather H. Wilson
  • Jacob Labrie — WINNER
  • Nicole Farley
  • ShaunMonet Kunkel

Insurtech of the Year

  • Cambridge Mobile Telematics
  • Cara
  • Catastrophe AI, LLC
  • Clearspeed
  • Cotality
  • Donan Engineering
  • Expert.ai
  • Federato Technologies, Inc.
  • Fenris
  • First Connect Insurance Services
  • Five Sigma
  • Hi Marley
  • InsCipher
  • INSTANDA
  • Insurify
  • IntellectAI
  • InvoiceCloud
  • Ivans
  • Kyber
  • LenderDock, Inc.
  • Liberate
  • Near Space Labs
  • Optimalex
  • Percipience LLC
  • Pibit.AI
  • ReSource Pro
  • Rhoads
  • Roadzen — WINNER
  • Roots
  • Send Technology
  • Vertafore
  • Vitesse

M&A Leader of the Year

  • Carey Wallace
  • Mike Witte
  • Peter McMurtrie — WINNER

Product or Service Innovation

  • Aon
  • Applied Systems
  • Arity
  • Assurant
  • BAY6.AI
  • bolt
  • Carpe Data
  • CCC Intelligent Solutions
  • CorVel Corporation
  • Cytora
  • DigsFact, Inc.
  • EZLynx
  • First Connect Insurance Services — WINNER
  • Five Sigma
  • LexisNexis® Risk Solutions
  • Nearmap
  • Novidea
  • Parameter Risk Solutions
  • Pibit.AI
  • ReSource Pro
  • Shift Technology
  • Strada
  • Strategic Risk Transfers, Inc.
  • Vertafore
  • Voltaire
  • Xceedance
  • Zap Consulting

Rising Star of the Year

  • Anna Conger
  • Arvind Sontha — WINNER
  • Dr. Chris Young
  • Jenna Kinsman
  • Margaret McDonald
  • Thejan Devaraj
  • Tori Sarmiento

Risk Manager of the Year

  • Brian Sullivan
  • Nandish Kanthraj — WINNER

Thought Leader of the Year

  • Akash Agarwal
  • Frank Giaoui
  • Jeff Radke
  • Jennifer Linton
  • Jennifer Overhulse
  • Jonathan Schneyer
  • Mallikarjun Reddy
  • Mark Breading
  • Peter McMurtrie
  • Robert Clark
  • Robert F. Tyson, Jr. — WINNER
  • Ryan Mandell
  • William Koppelmann

Claims Leader of the Year

  • Bonnie McCaig — WINNER
  • Jeremy Gittler
  • Kanwar Gill

Excellence in Claims Management

  • Openly — WINNER
  • Resilience

Excellence in Marketing/PR

  • Nikky Venkataraman — WINNER
  • Ryan Specialty

Excellence in Risk Management

  • Brandon Felus
  • Matt Joyal — WINNER

Excellence in Workplace Culture

  • ARU
  • Across America Insurance Services — WINNER

Executive of the Year

  • Clark Sheffield
  • Cory Isaacson — WINNER
  • Vishaal “V8” Hariprasad

MGA of the Year

  • ARU
  • Coterie Insurance — WINNER
  • Delos Insurance Solutions
  • Global Insurance Management
  • Kinetic Insurance
  • Resilience

Product or Service Innovation

  • ARU
  • Demex SCS Reinsurance
  • REInsurePro
  • Resilience — WINNER
  • RSI International

Rising Star of the Year

  • Andrew Notohamiprodjo
  • James Gara
  • Rachael Dougherty — WINNER
  • Zach Baker

Excellence in Claims Management

  • All American Claims Solutions
  • CorVel Corporation — WINNER

Excellence in Community Outreach

  • Stacey Gunn — WINNER
  • Gallagher Bassett

Product or Service Innovation

  • Elysian
  • Xceedance — WINNER

Claims Leader of the Year

  • Brian O'Neill
  • Mark Funk — WINNER

Thought Leader of the Year

  • Grace Hanson
  • Kimberly George — WINNER