President
H2O Partners
Tapping into her experience in the areas of insurance law, flood insurance, FEMA and more, Jo Ann Howard established H20 Partners, a firm that consults in flood insurance, disaster protection and recovery, homeland infrastructure security, floodplain issues, legislative consulting, and state and federal administrative agency issues. Before founding H20 Partners in 2001, Howard served as FEMA’s federal insurance administrator, responsible for managing more than $523 billion of flood insurance in force through the NFIP.
Today, H20 Partners works in all hazard areas for more than 100 counties and 300 cities in Texas. Post-Hurricane Katrina, H20 provided public assistance support to the states of Mississippi and Louisiana, and worked for more than three years in New York following Superstorm Sandy.