NBC is an organization of committed leaders, many of them holding positions in industry associations that help formulate policy and influence legislation.

 

 

 

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Officers & Directors:

[+] Russel Urffer, Jr., CLU, ChFC , President

Russel Urffer, Jr., CLU, ChFC, President of MidAtlantic Insurance Consultants, Ltd.
Russ entered the industry in 1972 and has held various field and home office positions with a major career company prior to establishing his brokerage general agency in 1989 and has served on the field/producer advisory councils of several nationally prominent insurers. Russ is the current President of the National Brokerage Consortium.

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[+] James Wolfe, Immediate Past President

James Wolfe
James A. Wolfe, CLU, FLMI is past president of NBC having served two terms in 2006 and 2007. He entered the insurance business in 1967 as a producer, and later directed securities and insurance training for a major insurer. In 1977 he opened the brokerage/IMO insurance and investment company. James Wolfe Financial is located in Wilmington, NC and serves the southeastern United States. Jim works directly with brokers and general agents using “NBC Strategic Partner Companies” in individual and worksite markets. The firm also offers case design solutions for income, estate preservation, wealth accumulation and transfer, and retirement planning strategies.

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[+] Melvin Rohrer, Vice President, Membership

Melvin L. Rohrer, LUTCF, President RAM GROUP
Melvin started his insurance career in 1972, soon becoming a life and qualifying member of the Million Dollar Round Table. He founded Rohrer & Associates (RAM Group) a national brokerage wholesaler in 1984. He has served on numerous insurance company advisory committees.

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[+] Franci Neill, Vice President, Meeting Coordinator

Franci Neill, Individual Life and Annuity Brokerage Manager for Brokerage Concepts, Inc.
Franci Neill has been in the insurance industry for over 10 years. Currently, Franci is an Individual Life and Annuity Brokerage Manager with Brokerage Concepts, Inc. Her role allows her to work with individual agents, carriers, vendors and clients. Franci works on every type of case, including complicated impaired risk cases, and over the last 5 years, her agents have come to recognize her as an expert in this arena. She is actively involved with NAILBA and is in the process of obtaining her CLU.

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[+] Lee Trawick, Treasurer

Lee Trawick
Lee started in the insurance business with Equitable in 1978 as an agent. From 1982-1992, he was the State of South Carolina Life Manager for Fidelity & Guaranty Life Insurance Company. Lee created Trawick Financial Services, Inc. in August 1992 as a full service Life and Annuity Brokerage firm. He has served on the Board of Camp Kemo, a Cancer Camp for children, and on the Columbia, SC Board of NAIFA. He is currently serving on the board of NBC.

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[+] Pete Caneer, Secretary

Pete Caneer, CSA, has over thirty years’ experience working with life insurance agents, financial planners, stock brokers, and property & casualty agents. Before moving to Spokane in 1996, he founded and operated one of the nation’s larger independent life insurance brokerages dealing with thousands of agents in Southern California. His has particular expertise in marketing and in health-impaired risks and in working with Property & Casualty agencies.

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Directors:

[+] Robert LaBonte, Chairperson, Long Term Planning Committee

Robert LaBonte, CFP, Owner of LaBonte Insurance Marketing Services, has 39 year of experience in the Financial Services Industry. He holds a series 7 & 24 securities license and he serves on the Field Advisory Councils for Aviva Life, Fort Dearborn Life and Symetra Life Insurance Company.

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[+] Norm Warner, Chairperson, Strategic Partner Company Committee

Norman E. Warner, Director, Founder and CEO of Warner Financial Group
Norm has spent more than 35 years in the finance-insurance-investment field and in that time has sat been appointed to various management positions within insurance companies as an employee and has on the management advisory board of several major insurers as the leader of his own independent firms.

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Committee Chairs

Judiciary - Robin Landers
Publications - Pete Caneer
Technology - Jeff Rohrer
Audit Committee -Leslie Whibey  
NBC University Chancellor - Ellen Radcliffe