Crump Home Office
7557 Rambler Road, Suite 400
Dallas, TX 75231
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Telephone: 214-265-2660
Fax: 214-265-2683
Crump Executive Management Team
- Chairman
- David Schamis
David Schamis is a Managing Director at J.C. Flowers & Co. LLC, a private equity firm which invests solely in the financial services sector. Mr. Schamis has been employed with J.C. Flowers & Co. and its affiliates since May 2000. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Schamis was in the financial institutions investment banking group at Salomon Smith Barney (previously known as Salomon Brothers and since renamed Citigroup), from 1995 to 2000. Mr. Schamis has spent virtually his entire career focused on the financial services sector. Mr. Schamis is a member of the board of directors of Symetra Financial Corporation, a life insurance company based in the Seattle area. Mr. Schamis graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Economics.
- President, Chief Executive Officer
- John Jennings
Prior to assuming the role of President of Crump Insurance Services in January, 2008, John served as President of Tri-City Brokerage from 2004-2007. He joined Tri-City in 1993 and held the position of manager of the New York City office from 1997 to 2004. Prior to joining Tri-City Brokerage, John held broker positions at Jardine as well as Bayley, Martin & Fay. He holds a BBA from the College of Insurance.
- Chief Financial Officer
- Patrick O'Brien
Patrick O'Brien has been CFO and Executive Vice President with Crump for 19 years. Prior to joining the Crump Group in 1986, he spent 7 years with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. His insurance industry career began with Prudential Insurance Company in 1969. He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a BSC and MBA from DePaul University.
- Executive Vice President & General Counsel
- Andy Forstenzer
Andy Forstenzer joined Crump in January, 2006 from Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. where he'd practiced since 1989, most recently as Vice President - Litigation. Prior to MMC, Mr. Forstenzer was with Damson Oil Corporation as Assistant General Counsel and Senior Vice President of an operating affiliate.
With the recent acquisition of BISYS, Andy was named General Counsel to Crump Group, Inc. He will maintain his current role with Crump Insurance Services.
- Director of Information Technology
- David Losson
David Losson has been with Crump since 1996. He has over 20 years experience in the information technology field. Prior to joining Crump he held various IT management and supervisory positions in the financial services, utilities and aerospace and defense industries. He holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Texas State University.
- Director of Marketing
- Kathy Van Eeten
Kathy van Eeten joined Crump in 2001. Kathy brings 25 years of insurance marketing and management experience to Crump. Her career encompasses standard company, national programs, wholesale and retail agency experience.
Kathy is a Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC) and a Certified Risk Manager (CRM). She is active in numerous industry and civic organizations in Texas, as well as on the national level.
- Director of National Agency Relations
- Marc Fuhrman
Marc Fuhrman joined Crump in 2007 as Manager of National Agency Relations. He works with senior management at national agencies to build positive relationships and educate the agencies’ corporate leadership about Crump’s wide range of capabilities.
Marc brings a wealth of experience and expertise across several business sectors to his role at Crump. Most recently, Mr. Fuhrman owned a mortgage and real estate company and later worked in the mortgage industry, where he helped HMS Capital and Mainstreet Mortgage set numerous sales records in Southern California.
Prior to this, Marc worked on Wall Street, specializing in equipment leasing and real estate syndication deals. Within the high-tech field, he was also instrumental in taking Scribe Technologies and NetMind, two start-up companies, from incubation to their sale to publicly traded companies (sold to Brio Technologies and Pumatech, respectively).
- V.P. of Human Resources
- Beth Ward
Elizabeth Ward rejoined Crump in 2007 as Human Resources Director. Beth has over 20 years of HR leadership experience in recruiting, employee relations, organizational and leadership development and training in the financial services, retail and insurance industries. She began with Crump in 2003 and assisted in Crump's smooth separation from Marsh.
Previously, Beth was employed by Fossil and DNA Productions. She graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio with a B.A. in Communications.
History of Crump
Crump's history reflects a company of many names, all incorporating the name of Mr. E. H. Crump of Memphis, Tennessee, who founded the original company as a retail insurance agency in 1920. The original name was Crump and Trezevant, which became the largest agency in the South. By 1925, branch offices had been opened in St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Little Rock. In 1936, Mr. Crump bought out his partner and formed E. H. Crump Company.
Crump Underwriters was formed in 1954 by Sidney A. Stewart, and became the wholesale insurance arm, to place business with Lloyds of London. At that time there were no domestic insurance companies writing excess and surplus lines coverages and there were no other surplus lines agencies in the South. In 1958 the name was changed to Crump London Underwriters.
In 1986, Crump was sold to Sedgwick Ltd. of London, England. The retail offices of Crump were merged into the Sedgwick retail offices and the excess and surplus lines offices were spun off into a separate company. In 1987, the name Crump E&S was adopted as Crump positioned itself as a national wholesaler. In 1998, the entire Sedgwick organization was sold to the Marsh & McLennan Companies. In November 2005 Crump was sold to J.C. Flowers Co. LLC, a private equity firm based in New York
Today Crump stands as one of the largest independent national wholesale insurance groups in the United States and is looked on by many to be the premier excess and surplus lines brokerage firm in the business. Crump offices offer their retail clients the very best individual account brokers, MGA contract underwriters and program managers. Crump provides access to all of the major excess and surplus lines companies in the business.