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“Insurance has been my passion from day one, and it fuels my drive to build a platform that will change the insurance industry for the better”
Curtis Barton,
ALKEME Insurance
Tim Turner is president of Ryan Specialty, and chairman and CEO of RT Specialty, Ryan Specialty’s wholesale brokerage operation. He is a member of Ryan Specialty’s Board of Directors.
Turner has had an extraordinary career spanning more than 30 years, providing leadership, expertise and service within the insurance industry. He joined Ryan Specialty in 2010 to create and develop Ryan Turner Specialty. Under his exceptional strategic leadership, RT Specialty is now one of the top wholesale distributors of specialty insurance in the country and known for its expertise and outstanding client service.
Prior to joining Ryan Specialty in 2010, Turner was the president of CRC Insurance Services, Inc., one of the largest wholesale insurance brokers in the US at the time. He joined the Crump Group in 1990 as a casualty broker, quickly distinguished himself as a leader and was named president of the Chicago office. Turner began his insurance career as a casualty broker with A. J. Renner & Associates in 1987.
Before joining the insurance industry, Turner graduated from the Detroit Police Academy, served on the Wayne County SWAT Team and was an undercover narcotics officer with the Narcotics Cocaine Task Force at the Michigan State Police.
Turner has received a number of accolades, including the 2021 Spirit of Life award from the National Insurance Industry Council and the City of Hope. In 2020, Insurance Insider named him Distribution Leader of the Year, honoring him as the year’s most influential and outstanding individual in insurance distribution. In 2019, Turner received the prestigious Insurance Industry “Good Scout” award from the Boy Scouts of America, Greater New York Councils.
Also in 2019, Turner co-founded the Robert J. Turner Foundation, whose mission is to honor courageous police service men and women and to make a lasting impact on the families of fallen officers.
A graduate of Madonna University, Turner holds a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice and is a member of the university’s board of trustees.
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Excellence awardee – Independent Mortgage Adviser of the Year category at the New Zealand Mortgage Awards
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Currently, Barton is CEO of ALKEME Insurance , one of the nation’s fastest growing insurance acquisition platforms. Barton led a merger and acquisition of seven “founding” entities to form ALKEME in late 2020, in the thick of the pandemic. He took ALKEME to market and secured private equity funding through GCP Capital Partners out of New York. ALKEME had year-over-year revenue growth of well over 100% in 2021 and is on track to double its revenue again in 2022 while maintaining a 13% organic growth clip.
Under Barton’s leadership, ALKEME has also won numerous honors, including being named in the 2021 Top 50 Brokers of Insurance Journal and the 2021 Top 100 Brokerages, Fast Brokerages and Best Places to Work in Insurance of Business Insurance.
“I know it sounds cliché, but I am laser-focused on changing the insurance industry for the better,” he says. “We are building technology, processes and products that are meeting the needs of a changing world. It is imperative that the insurance industry keeps up with the fast pace of change, and I want to make sure I do my part.”
Prior to ALKEME, Barton founded Venture Pacific Insurance, a regional brokerage in southern California that was acquired by ALKEME during the merger. Barton also co-founded Brokkrr, a digital lead generation insurtech platform.
Barton received his BA from the University of Arizona. He has been included in IBA’s Hot 100 list four times in a row. He was also recognized in Vertafore’s Top 25 Disruptors in the insurance industry.
“We are building technology, processes and products that are meeting the needs of a changing world. It is imperative that the insurance industry keeps up with the fast pace of change, and I want to make sure I do my part”
Curtis Barton,
ALKEME Insurance