Dunn Elected President of ASCnet

The Applied Systems Client Network (ASCnet), the user group for Applied Systems agency management technology, announced the election of Robert “Robby” E. Dunn III, vice president and agency manager of Hotchkiss Insurance Agency in Houston, as the group’s president.

Other newly elected Executive Committee members, approved at ASCnet’s annual conference held recently in Orlando, include: Immediate Past-President Stuart Durland, vice president and co-owner of Seely & Durland Inc., Warwick, N.Y.; Vice President Donna Abramson, IT manager, Western Financial Group Inc., High River, Alberta, Canada; and Secretary-Treasurer Vicky Tuten, CPA, CFO, Kinker-Eveleigh Insurance Agency, Cincinnati.

Dunn’s experience is a unique blend of agency technology and workflow consulting, teaching, association leadership, and agency management. He began his insurance career in 1980 at The R.E. Dunn Agency in Topeka, Kan. Prior to joining Hotchkiss Insurance, he was president of Automated Agency Management as an independent consultant serving independent agencies and carriers on a nationwide basis.

Dunn is a National Alliance faculty member, having served on its Agency Management Advisory Committee since 1998, and authored the Academy monographs, Transactional Filing: An Integrated Approach and Imaging at a Glance. He’s an active member of the Independent Insurance Agents of Houston, currently serving on the board of directors as vice president. Dunn is a long-time certified national presenter for ASCnet and has been a frequent presenter at local, regional and national educational conferences.

Founded in 1985 and based in Altamonte Springs, Fla., the Applied Systems Client Network Inc. (ASCnet) is an international association representing more than 110,000 insurance professionals.