Leadership

Brandon Mundie

Brandon Mundie

Chief Financial Officer

Brandon works closely with our leadership team and all aspects of the agency—employee benefits, property and casualty and personal lines—to maintain financial and operational due diligence. With a background in mergers and acquisi...

Read More
Cooper Johnson

Cooper Johnson

Partner, Benefits Practice Leader

As our employee benefits practice leader, Cooper oversees the entirety of our benefits practice at all branch locations. Based in Birmingham, he has built a “beyond benefits” approach to solving the most complex people problems th...

Read More
Dan Coulter, CLCS

Dan Coulter, CLCS

Partner, Property & Casualty

Dan joined Valent Group in 2014 after serving in commercial lending with First American Bank. The bank’s insurance division was part of Birmingham-based ANB Insurance Services, which was acquired by Valent in 2007.
At the University of A...

Read More
Hawkins Tatum

Hawkins Tatum

Partner - Employee Benefits

Hawkins brings a wide lens of experience to our Employee Benefits team, having previously managed employer health plans for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama and led the corporate HR department for Mrs. Stratton’s Salads. His combined emp...

Read More
Kurt Close

Kurt Close

President

Kurt is a transformational executive who brings both deep technical experience and keen leadership that touches all aspects of the agency’s sales, customer service, carrier marketing and value added teams across all branches. He set...

Read More
Rich Williams, CIC

Rich Williams, CIC

Partner, Property & Casualty

Rich came to the insurance industry and Valent Group in 2017 after working for AT&T for about ten years. He has been in several production roles, including sales consultant, application sales consultant and client solutions executive, a...

Read More
Seth Stone

Seth Stone

Partner, Property & Casualty

Seth joined Valent Group in 2016 after two years as a risk consultant with Cobbs Allen where he specialized in the public transit space. In fact, Seth was an endorsed broker with the Community Transportation Association of America and worke...

Read More