JD Powers, President, POWERS Insurance & Risk Management

JD Powers has found a competitive edge by proactively managing insurance and risk management programs for nearly any type of exposure or industry. “Over the course of my 10-year career, I attribute most of my success to developing our proprietary risk management approach to challenge the status quo and proactively safeguard our clients, their employees and families,” he says. “In 2018, most of our success was due to staying focused on growing our specialty niches, which include hospitality, manufacturing, educational institutions, construction/heavy equipment, habitational and personal risk management for successful families.”

Due to his positioning efforts to become a recognized regional firm for these specialty practices, Powers’ clientele grew significantly in 2018. His plan for 2019 is to continue to grow all of his practices regionally, and to focus on vertically growing construction and heavy equipment unit nationally.