Higginbotham Adds 2 in Austin Office

Independent insurance and financial services firm Higginbotham & Associates added two brokers to its Austin, Texas, office.

Higginbotham named Chris Camero an executive vice president for group benefits and Travis Bowles an account executive for commercial property/casualty.

Camero joined the Austin office from Madison Benefits Group, a Houston-based employee benefits brokerage and consulting firm that Higginbotham joined forces with in September 2008. Higginbotham entered Austin’s property/casualty insurance market in 2004 and is looking to Camero to lead the growth of the office’s group benefits practice. Camero has concentrated experience in benefit plan brokerage and underwriting, having worked for a number of benefits agencies and insurance carriers before joining Madison Benefits in 2004.

Higginbotham recruited Bowles, a recent college graduate, into its Producer Mentor Program to train him in commercial property/casualty insurance brokerage. Bowles graduated with distinction from Texas Christian University in 2008 with a degree in communications.

Higginbotham’s Producer Mentor Program supports individuals who have demonstrated superior communication and entrepreneurial skills to build profitable books of business. During the course of the program, Bowles will earn a property/casualty insurance license, study loss control strategies, train under a senior level broker and learn sales fundamentals. The firm credits its consistent organic growth in part to this program.

Source: Higginbotham & Associates, www.higginbotham.net