Owens Insurance coverage Company, an impartial insurance coverage company with a 70-year presence within the Upstate area of South Carolina, has promoted Chad Hannon, CLCS, to Market President for the company’s residence workplace in Greer, South Carolina. On this position, Hannon will deal with persevering with to develop the industrial facet of the enterprise, which accounts for about 70 % of the company’s consumer combine – of which building represents the biggest piece.
Hannon joined Owens Insurance coverage as Government Vice President of the Business Division seven years in the past. Since that point, the company has expanded each its product choices and its geographic footprint throughout the Carolinas. Along with South Carolina and North Carolina, Owens Insurance coverage Company is licensed additionally licensed in Georgia. Owens Insurance coverage serves building companies of various sizes – from one-person operations, to corporations with 50 or extra workers. Along with normal contractors, Owens Insurance coverage purchasers embody these specializing in concrete, framing, roofing, mechanical/HVAC, electrical, and grading.
“Building has turn out to be a major a part of our enterprise in recent times, partly because of the specialised experience of key members of our management workforce. Based mostly on our personal backgrounds in building, now we have a eager understanding of what contractors have to function successfully and are good at anticipating these wants. We provide an array of merchandise to guard them and may react rapidly to the usually time-sensitive requests which might be part of the contracting world,” stated Hannon.
Hannon holds Property & Casualty Licenses in each South Carolina and North Carolina, and Life & Well being in South Carolina. His skilled credentials embody the CLCS designation denoting Business Traces Protection Specialist (CLCS).
“Since approaching board in 2015, Chad has persistently been a prime producer in our company, regionally and nationally – and has been an asset to the whole workplace, offering assist and mentorship to different workforce members. Thus, it was a pure transition to advertise him to Greer Market President and we’re excited to have him lead our workforce and steer our progress into the subsequent decade,” stated Chris Crist, Co-owner of Owens Insurance coverage Company with enterprise accomplice Shane Lynn.
Background: Chad Hannon
A licensed agent for greater than 25 years, Hannon started his insurance coverage profession in his hometown of Greer, South Carolina, with The Greer Group Company. There he gained invaluable expertise as he was launched to all facets of the enterprise, assuming new roles and obligations alongside the way in which. After accepting a profession alternative in Spartanburg, Hannon turned a top-producing State Farm agent within the state of South Carolina, which in the end led to possession of his personal State Farm company within the Better Charlotte space from 2008-2015.
After graduating from Greer Excessive Faculty in 1990, Hannon attended East Carolina College on a soccer scholarship. Regardless of debilitating knee accidents that took him out of the soccer program, Hannon completed his diploma at East Carolina in 1995. It was at East Carolina that he met his future spouse, who’s a supervisor at Prisma Well being Greer Memorial Hospital.
Lively locally, Hannon belongs to Enterprise Networking Worldwide (BNI) Greer, participates within the Better Greer Chamber, and commonly serves as a Meals on Wheels volunteer by way of Greer Group Ministries. Hannon is concerned with native highschool athletics and serves because the announcer for Greer Excessive Faculty sports activities.