People Moves: IIAT Elects Officers, Directors; Pettiette Joins Louisiana’s Dwight W. Andrus Insurance

IIAT

The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected Gaylon Brown of TexCap Insurance in Dallas to serve as chair for 2021-2022 during IIAT’s annual business meeting on June 25, 2021.

Brown is CEO and Managing Partner of TexCap Insurance in Dallas. He began his insurance career with Millerman & Millerman Insurance Agency (M&M). Brown became a partner at M&M in 1975, which was later sold to Brook Crawford & Associates in 1992, and subsequently to Hilb, Rogal & Hamilton (HRH) in 1994. Brown served as executive vice president of HRH until his resignation in October 2005, at which time he helped found TexCap Insurance.

Brown has served on many insurance company advisory boards, state and local associations, and committees. He is a past president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Dallas

Josh Andrajack of Boley-Featherston in Wichita Falls will serve as vice chair for 2021-2022.

Andrajack spent the first decade of his career as a commercial lender for a community bank in Wichita Falls. He joined Boley-Featherston Insurance in 2008 and became a partner in 2016. In July 2021, Andrajack completed the buyout of the firm’s third generation of ownership to become the controlling shareholder and president. His focus areas include oil and gas, and construction insurance, as well as the procurement of new market territories in Boley-Featherston’s expansion across the state.

Mark Bridges of INSURICA in Amarillo will serve as IIAT’s chair-elect for 2021-2022.

Bridges is a third-generation insurance agent who started his insurance career in Fort Worth in 1994 at a regional insurance company before moving into the agency force in 2002. In 2004, he moved to Amarillo to open an office for his family’s insurance agency, DFB. In 2009, Bridges was recognized as IIAT’s Young Agent of the Year.

Over the past 17 years, Bridges has helped grow the agency organically and through acquisition to become one of the largest independent agencies in Texas. In 2017, DFB merged with INSURICA, based out of Oklahoma City. Bridges is now the Texas regional president for a division of INSURICA approaching $42 million in commission revenue with more than 200 employees and 11 branch offices.

At the June meeting, Kyle Dean, with Dean & Draper in Houston, and Christy Ross, with C A Ross Insurance Agency in San Angelo, were elected to IIAT’s board of directors.

Dwight W. Andrus Insurance

Dwight W. Andrus Insurance Inc. added David D. Pettiette Jr. as a producer in the Employee Benefits Department in its Shreveport office.

Since joining the team, Pettiette focus has been on installing strategies for employers to develop robust employee benefit programs. He specializes in both fully insured and self-funded plans, that are cost-effective but also offer key benefits to recruit and retain top talent. Pettiette enjoys targeting a variety of industries to allow for an enhanced client experience to facilitate new employee benefit solutions.

Prior to joining the Dwight Andrus team, Pettiette enjoyed a career in the oil and gas industry that spanned nearly a decade before transitioning to a Shreveport insurance firm about five years ago.

Founded in 1945, Dwight Andrus Insurance is a 76-year-old, fourth generation, independent insurance retail brokerage firm with its headquarters located in Lafayette, Louisiana.

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