Steward Joins Higginbotham & Associates in Austin

Higginbotham & Associates has appointed Walker Steward a vice president in its Austin office. Steward is a commercial property/casualty insurance agent with experience in brokerage and sales. He brings with him an established client roster.

Steward was most recently an account executive at Wortham Insurance & Risk Management in Austin where he brokered property/casualty coverage lines for all business sectors. Before joining Wortham, he worked for the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C., as a trade specialist for commercial service activities in Canada and Mexico.

He is a licensed property/casualty general lines sgent and completed Chubb Producer School in Atlanta and Travelers Producer School in Richardson, Texas.

Steward will complete Higginbotham’s Producer Mentor Program, an insurance sales training course that supports individuals in building profitable books of business. Participants train under a senior level broker to learn sales fundamentals and familiarize with Higginbotham’s value proposition. The firm credits its high organic growth in part to this program.

Source: Higginbotham & Associates