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Driving growth with compliant web leads and inbound calls.
- Medicare
- Final Expense
- Auto/Home
- Life/Annuities
- Cancer
- Funeral
· Over 150 Years of Collective Insurance Experience (Property/Casualty/Life/Health)
· Experts with proven knowledge, techniques, and most importantly, results.
· Digital Marketing specialists producing exclusive, compliant leads
· Respected leaders in Consumer initiated Inbound Calls
· Inbound Call Sales Training and Systems from proven sales leaders
· Career and Independent Agency Sales Development
· Advanced and targeted analytics driven Direct Mail campaigns
Honor. Discipline. Courage.
1988
Bontell graduates from The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, as a distinguished academic and military cadet.
1988-1996
Begins career in the solid waste and recycling collection industry that includes two entrepreneurial ventures, a Fortune 500 start up, and two regional and national sales leadership roles in collection, routing and software technology.
1996
Starts insurance career with MetLife as a retail life agent. Joined wife in creating the Bontell Agency, an award winning Allstate Insurance Agency.
1998
Designs Progressive Insurance’s first independent agent sales training curriculum, Agency Development Series. Assisted then CEO, Peter Lewis, with call center sales strategies.
2000
Creates the first non-insurance long term care assistance plan in the US.
2001
Creates the first non-insurance end of life assistance plan in the US.
Notable Accomplishments
2005
2005
2005
Creates the first online funeral planning and savings plan in the US. Assisted in development of the first Medicare Advantage and Part D programs in the US
2007
2005
2005
Creates the first final expense, simplified whole life insurance plan (Forethought Life) to include financial solutions to insurance clients and family members before, during, and after death
2011
2005
2011
Creates Life & Annuity Retirement Solutions division for Top 10 P&C brokerage in US (IOA).
2013
2011
Creates new end of life assistance insurance plan, Covered! that elevated Settlers Life and its parent company, NGL, to market leadership in the end of life space
2018-2023
2018-2023
Serves on executive leadership teams for (3) national insurance distribution firms (FMOs) and a national final expense insurance company.