Assured Agencies Names Anderson Senior VP

Assured Agencies of Lake Mary, Fla., has announced that Eric Anderson joined the company as senior vice president. He will oversee acquisitions and operations in the Pacific Northwest, Kentucky and Indiana.

Anderson has more than 20 years of experience in overseeing retail insurance agency operations and identifying acquisitions. He joins Assured Agencies from Brown & Brown, where he most recently served as regional vice president and was responsible for retail operations in western Kentucky, southwest Indiana, Indianapolis and Seattle. He joined Brown & Brown in 2003, when his family owned independent full-service insurance agency, The Anderson Group, in Owensboro, Ky., was acquired by a subsidiary of Brown & Brown.

Assured Agencies, headquartered in Lake Mary, Florida, acquires and invests in property and casualty and employee benefits brokerage businesses across the country. Assured Agencies was founded in partnership with management and GTCR, a Chicago-based private equity firm.