President and CEO
Summit Consulting (Great American Insurance Group)
With a passion for teaching and empowering others, Carol Sipe started out at Summit Consulting, a workers’ compensation company, as a training coordinator in 1989 and quickly rose through the ranks. After 10 years, she was appointed vice president of operations. Following another decade in various senior leadership positions, Sipe took the helm at Summit as president and CEO.
In this role, she has been integral to the development of Summit’s safety and claims services, technology, and culture of doing the right thing for the company’s 35,000-plus policyholders and 700 employees. A strong proponent of work-life balance, Sipe models to her team the success that comes from setting and keeping healthy priorities. In 2017, Sipe was recognized by her alma mater, Florida Southern College, with the Distinguished Alumna Achievement Award. She also sits on the advisory board of the college’s Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise.
