7/12/2018 _

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Mike Foy Becomes Chairman of NetVU, Joe Clabaugh, Chairman-Elect

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Michael J. Foy, president of Foy Insurance Group, Exeter, New Hampshire, is NetVU’s new chairman of the board. Foy was chairman-elect this past year and replaces outgoing chairman Brent Rineck, CPCU, CLU, ChFC. Rineck will now serve as an ex-officio member of the board and chairman of the NetVU Conference Steering Committee. Joe Clabaugh, senior group manager with The Cincinnati Insurance Company, becomes chairman-elect. 

Foy has had many volunteer roles at NetVU, including his work on the Ideas initiative. An active participant in industry technology forums, he has served on insurance company advisory boards and on various committees with the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America. He joined his family-owned property-casualty agency in 1979. The agency has 12 locations in New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts and South Carolina, and a combined staff of over 100 employees. 

“I look forward to working with the NetVU Board, Vertafore leadership and our carrier partners to advance the use of technology for the betterment of our industry,” Foy says. While he believes in the power of technology, Foy notes that relationships are what matter most in the insurance business. “My involvement with NetVU stems from the need for our team to focus on relationships — using Vertafore products to enhance efficiency enables us to spend more time with clients and less time on processes, procedures and paperwork.”

In particular, Foy says he will continue NetVU’s efforts to improve communication with Vertafore’s leadership and promote the Ideas initiative to spur product enhancements that benefit all Vertafore users.

“In the past year, the NetVU board has worked closely with Vertafore’s leadership team to improve communication and share insight based on industry experience,” he says. “Open, honest and productive dialog between our organizations is critical to the success of Vertafore, as well as the success of firms using Vertafore’s products.”

Adds Foy, “One of my pet projects has been to become a real ambassador for Ideas. The purpose of Ideas is to take good ideas, build on them and make them great. We do this with open conversation and collaboration with other NetVU members and Vertafore product managers.” 


Foy says working with industry leaders to find solutions to ease new cybersecurity requirements, such as multi-factor authentication, will also be a top priority for him. “We need to create safe and secure digital credentials to replace the many user passwords agencies currently maintain,” he says. “The development of an effective digital identity infrastructure will increase agency use of real-time transactions and enable agencies to provide greater customer-service functionality.” One solution NetVU members should get behind, he says, is ID Federation’s SignOn Once. Vertafore is a certified vendor partner for this new single sign-on technology.   

Here is a complete list of the 2018-19 NetVU Board of Directors:

  • Mike Foy, Chairman of the Board, Foy Insurance Group, Exeter, New Hampshire
  • Joe Clabaugh, Chairman-Elect, The Cincinnati Insurance Company, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Carl R. Schlotman III, CPCU, CIC, Secretary/Treasurer, CAI Insurance Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Brent Rineck, CPCU, CLU, ChFC, Ex-Officio, ABD Insurance and Financial Services Inc., San Mateo, California
  • Jim Dahoney, Member At Large, Marshall & Sterling Inc., Poughkeepsie, New York
  • Dean Giem, CIC, Member At Large, Security First Insurance Agency, Littleton, Colorado
  • Michelle Hoffert, Member At Large, Lanier Upshaw Inc., Lakeland, Florida
  • Jessica Jeffress, Member At Large, Peel & Holland, Benton, Kentucky
  • Todd McCredie, Member At Large, McCredie Insurance Agency Inc., Flint, Michigan
  • Bruce Winterburn, Vertafore Executive Sponsor, Vertafore, Pulaski, Tennessee
  • Jayne Rothman, Vertafore Staff Liaison, Vertafore, Denver, Colorado
  • Kitty Ambers, CIC, CPIA, CISR, NetVU Staff Liaison, NetVU, Irving, Texas

      

Mike Foy Introduces New NetVU Playbook

NetVU's Industry Playbook  provides an overview of the priorities that the industry-at-large is impacted by.  The Playbook provides insights on how these initiatives are affecting NetVU Members / Vertafore Users, and provides guidance for how to consider options that will lead to efficiency, effectiveness and profitability when these initiatives are adopted.  Feel free to reference the NetVU Industry Playbook as you are talking with decision-makers in the industry. The NetVU Industry Relations Committee is currently revamping the existing playbook into a more comprehensive document that includes Ideal State, Pain Points to Adoption, Resources, and Next Steps / Action Plans.  As sections are updated, we will link them here.



QQ Catalyst

Do you have input on how QQ Catalyst can be even better? Do you want to help shape the future of the product? Do you have questions to ask or information to share about QQ Catalyst? NetVU has two forums for you: The QQ Product Work Group, which debuts this month, and the QQ Catalyst NCOM community.


QQ Work Group. Volunteers in this group will collaborate with NetVU leaders and Vertafore product management team members to improve the existing system and future updates to the product. The group will gather and prioritize suggestions from QQ Catalyst users for maximizing efficiency and productivity and distribute information to users and the Education Committee.

  • The group will have monthly, two-hour virtual meetings.
  • The group needs 10 volunteers from various-sized organizations from across the country.

Click here to volunteer now, or contact [email protected].

QQ Catalyst NCOM Community. This community is devoted to QQ Catalyst users. Conversations with your peers will focus exclusively on using your QQ Catalyst product. Click here to join the community now.


NetVU offers work groups for each Vertafore product. Get involved in your community to help make your Vertafore product the best it can be. Sign up to make a difference.

 

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