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 acquisitions and banking, Brandon also leads the agency’s

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 through a high-touch, high-results, holistic

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 Alabama, Dan studied

Forrest serves as management liaison for Valent Group’s Benefits Practice. His executive leadership experience — serving as a C-Suite player responsible for HR leadership with companies of up to 1,000 employees and his leadership roles in the HR community —

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 employer and carrier

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 sets and executes vision and culture,

If employees are an organization’s greatest asset, then Leticia’s desire to cultivate a culture of growth and development inspires our team to “Be the Difference”. Leticia joined Valent Group in 2018 to recruit talented insurance professionals and provide day-to-day strategy

Over the past 14 years, Fortune 1000 publicly traded and privately held companies have trusted Mike with their comprehensive risk management programs and relied on his deep technical expertise in cyber and management liability.

Phillip’s mission at the agency is to establish, coordinate and deliver high standards of excellence for our clients through the collaboration of our services teams, including account management, marketing, loss control, claims and other in-house resources. He keeps our clients’

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, all with a focus

Seth specializes in the restaurant space, bringing insights from his time spent working as sales manager and later director of development under well-known restaurateur John Cassimus, who founded Jinsei and Maki Fresh and expanded his parents’ restaurant, Zoe’s Kitchen, from