Broker
Foundation Insurance Group
Having joined Foundation Insurance Group in 2000, Patricia Hartness was named the company’s number-one producer for 2015 and 2016, and is the only female sales producer thus far in the agency.
“I started working in the insurance industry when I was 21 years old while taking some classes at NOVA,” she says. Hartness got her start in the industry as a receptionist/file clerk and quickly worked her way up by getting a P&C license within a few months. Soon, she was taking on various roles, including customer service and account management, before finally becoming a producer.
Hartness writes both personal and commercial insurance, and has developed expertise around the latter, specifically for contractors, restaurants and garages/gas stations. She has also established active working relationships with a number of state and national carriers, and completed her CIC designation in 2016. In addition, Hartness started a Christmas charity program for Foundation Insurance Group last year, which arranged for Christmas gifts to be sent to children in Guatemala.
