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Meet Our Risk Management Professionals

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Matt Shumway - Vice President

Matt is an attorney on staff. He has worked as Risk Manager and as Senior Corporate Counsel at Novell, Inc. His focus at Diversified Insurance is on working with executive management from public and private high-growth companies in the risk management areas of director & officers, employment practices, and intellectual property liability issues in addition to the all other commercial insurance and risk management areas.

Licensed Insurance Agent

J.D. California Western School of Law

B.S. Arizona State University, Business Administration

 

Ramona Smith - Account Executive

Ramona has been in the Property and Casualty Insurance Industry for more than 20 years. Her extensive underwriting background includes United Pacific / Reliance Insurance Company and Great American Insurance Company in both underwriting and underwriting management positions. She formerly served on the Board of Directors of the Utah Chapter of CPCU as the Candidate Development and Recruitment Chairperson.

Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU)
Associate in Risk Management (ARM)

Kinman Business University, Business Administration/Retail Management, 1979

Licensed Insurance Agent, Surplus Lines Broker & Consultant

 

Don Sparks - Benefit Services Group Leader

Don is the founder of Diversified Benefit Services Group in 2002. He is licensed in Health, Dental, Life, Disability, Chartered Life Underwriter and has 35 years of healthcare, employee benefits and consulting experience. He is a National CLU and CEBS Society Member. Previously Don was an iInstructor at Portland State University CLU Studies from 1979-1984. He currently insures companies in 41 states and represents 40 Corporate Accounts with premiums over $17,000,000.

B.S. University of Utah, Finance & Accounting

 

Tom Stephens – Senior Account Executive

Tom is a Senior Account Executive with Diversified Insurance Technology Group, with seven years’ experience as an underwriter for Fireman’s Fund and 24 years involvement in the commercial property and liability insurance brokerage field. Tom’s brokerage career includes a total of eight years with Aon Risk Services and Marsh Risk & Insurance Services. Tom is expert in the critical analysis, design and placement of comprehensive casualty and property insurance programs.

Tom has extensive experience placing and servicing complex worldwide property and casualty programs (including errors & omissions liability coverage) for a number of high tech companies.

Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter designation (CPCU)

Associate in Risk Management designation (ARM)

B.S., University of Utah, Business Administration (Economics)

Licensed Insurance Agent, Broker & Surplus Lines Broker

 

Jeff Utz - Partner

At Diversified Insurance, Jeff is the resident expert in large workers compensation insurance programs with a specific expertise in crafting workers compensation programs for the PEO industry. Jeff has been actively involved in NAPEO since 1993 and currently sits on the Board for Workers’ Compensation Certification Institute.  He has also published several articles for the PEO Insider and ProEmp Journal.

Jeff has been working in the insurance industry since 1989 after graduating with a finance degree from Miami University.  He began his career with Great American insurance Company working in both the Cincinnati home office and in Salt Lake City as a field underwriter and marketing lead.  He has also worked for a large regional insurance brokerage firm and developed an expertise in the alternative staffing industry.

Licensed Insurance Agent

B.S.Miami University, Finance