Insurance Technology Advocate Award
Recognize Someone for their Contributions Today
The Insurance Technology Advocate Award in Memory of Wade S. Dunbar Jr. recognizes to a person who has made significant contributions to insurance industry automation.
Help us recognize an Insurance Technology Advocate who:
- Is involved with automation and leading organizations towards full-system utilization and leadership on an industry-wide basis.
- Has recognizable achievements while serving the industry from a vendor, carrier, agency, or industry organization perspective.
- Is a leader with exemplary personal standards and passion for the success of all industry partners. This person has the ability to pull different groups together for a common goal.
- Has made significant contributions to moving the insurance industry automation forward.
- Is active within the industry, retired, alive, or deceased.
Nominations Due Friday, March 24.
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History
With a new understanding of automation, Wade Dunbar created a structure in which agents, insurance companies and automation providers work together to modernize the insurance industry. His ability to motivate agents as well as all major vendors from around the country to be involved was an unparalleled. He did this through unwavering adherence to the highest principles, bringing dissimilar groups together with the ultimate goal of single entry multi company interface; today we call this “Real Time.” Remarkably, even after his passing, the initiative continued as an outgrowth of his steadfast devotion to the “good of the industry”, instead of a single individual or company.
Today, Dunbar’s role in streamlining is seen as one of the greatest contributions to the insurance industry.
Past Recipients
Patty McQuade, 2022
Brad Booth, 2020
Rick Morgan, 2019
Keith Savino, 2018
Ron Berg, 2017
Jim Rogers, 2016
Nellie Massoni, 2015
Steve Anderson, 2014
James T. Armitage, CPCU, AAI, 2013
Cyndy Smith, 2012
Carolyn "Cal" Durland, CPCU, 2011
Dave Acker, 2010
Mele Fuller, AAM, AIT, AAI, 2009
Jim Rogers, 2008
David Findley, 2006
Gregory A. Maciag, 2005
James J. Cutro, 2004
Douglas R. Bennett, 2002
Jeffrey M. Yates, 2001
James B. Phelan, CIC, CLU, CPCU, CPIA, 1999
Don R. Jordan, 1998
Robert Y. Barnham, Jr. (posthumously), 1996
Herbert G. Treweek, 1995
Robert E. Merriman, 1994
David W. Wroe, 1993
Robert Burns, 1992
Robert R. Treweek, 1991
Louie E. Woodbury, Jr. 1990
Lawson L. Swearingen, 1989
John Folk, 1988