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“No matter how many clients I have, I make sure to call each one personally every quarter. It’s a chance to not only update them on their portfolio, but also check on how they’re doing personally”
Kelvin Rampersad,
Carte Wealth Management
An 18-year veteran of the insurance industry, Reed Rhoden, CIC, TRIP’s career has taken him across the country and from retail agent to wholesale broker, but one thing has always remained constant: his focus on the trucking industry.
“The truck insurance market can be fast-paced and volatile,” he says. “Markets burn out and disappear every year, and there’s always a market that thinks they can do it better than everyone else, and it rarely works out that way.”
Trucking coverage was Rhoden’s initial entrée into the insurance world, and he has fostered and developed a passion for the line of business that spans almost two decades. Particularly, he likes the fact that trucking is an ultra-specialized and precise industry, and, through M.J. Hall, he provides coverage to businessowners in underrepresented markets.
“I would say the biggest challenge in my career has been constantly keeping my finger on the pulse of the market, so that we can be agile enough to keep up with the changing landscape,” he adds. “I spend time every week researching our competition and looking for new innovative ways to help our agents win more often.”
Genial and easygoing, Rhoden prides himself on his ability to build and maintain relationships with his agents, fostering trust and providing best-in-class customer service that keeps them coming back year after year.
Rhoden began his career as a producer at Insurance Unlimited of Louisiana in 2003 and, in 2006, was given a satellite office. In 2008, he moved to Appalachian Underwriters in Knoxville, TN, where he started as an internal marketing representative. From 2009 to 2012, he launched a startup agency called The Firm of Louisiana in Lake Charles, LA, which still employs his original partners and has grown into a $50 million agency. From 2012 to 2014, he returned to Appalachian Underwriters to be an external field marketing representative for Northern California, Oregon, and Nevada. From 2014 to 2018, he worked as a wholesale insurance broker/MGA with Hull & Company/Brown & Brown. He has been with M.J. Hall & Company since 2018, where he is now an AVP and senior broker.
What are his plans for the future?
“More of the same,” he says. “Trucks carry over 70% of goods in the United States, and new challenges like environmental regulation, electric and autonomous vehicles, and ever rising fuel and insurance costs, present themselves daily. It’s an industry that’s been good to me and my family, and I plan to continue helping to address their challenges for as long as they will have me.”
While he also counts insurance among his hobbies, when not working, Rhoden enjoys hiking, DIY house projects and following his son’s basketball career.
1550 West Fremont Street, Stockton, CA 95203
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reed.rhoden@mjhall.com
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Reed Rhoden, CIC, TRIP
Assistant Vice President and Senior Broker
M.J. Hall & Company
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“I strongly believe in working smarter, not harder. I think it’s one of the keys to living a great life, and I want to share that with as many people as possible”
Kelvin Rampersad,
Carte Wealth Management
2003–2008
2009–2014
2014–2018
2021–2022
2019
Present
2003: Producer at Insurance Unlimited of LA
2006: Given a satellite office at Insurance Unlimited of LA
2008: Internal Marketing Representative at Appalachian Underwriters
2003–
2008
2009–2012: Partner/Co-Owner at The Firm of Louisiana, a start-up agency
2012–2014: External Field Marketing Representative for Appalachian Underwriters’ Northern California, Oregon and Nevada offices, which are top production territories in the company
2009–
2014
2014: Received the Certified Insurance Counselor designation from the National Alliance of Insurance Education and Research; received the Transportation Risk Insurance Professional designation from the Motor Carrier Insurance Education Foundation; Rookie of the Year (most new business revenue in the country for a first-year producer); Tangle B Silver (over $350,000 but less than $450,000 in new business revenue)
2014–2018: Wholesale Insurance Broker/MGA at Hull & Company/Brown & Brown
2015: Tangle B Silver (over $350,000 but less than $450,000 in new business revenue)
2016: Tangle B Silver (over $350,000 but less than $450,000 in new business revenue); $750,000 Club (over $750,000, but less than $1 million in total revenue)
2017: Promoted to Profit Center Leader (Regional Leadership for Stockton/Northern California Operations); Tangle B Gold ($450,000+ new business revenue); $750,000 Club (over $750,000 but less than $1 million in total revenue)
2014–
2018
2021: Diamond Broker ($750,000–$999,999 in total revenue)
2022: Platinum Broker ($1 million + total revenue)
2021–
2022
Assistant Vice President and Senior Broker at MJ Hall & Company since 2018
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Assistant Vice President and Senior Broker at MJ Hall & Company since 2018
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Aug 2022
Milestones
Sept 2021
Feb 2022
Apr 2022
Jul 2022
Aug
2022
Suncorp Bank introduces Solar Home Bonus offer for customers who are choosing renewable energy for their homes
Sept 2021
Month-on-month market share growth commences
Feb 2022
Suncorp Bank wins the Canstar award for most outstanding value in investment loans
Apr 2022
Suncorp Bank wins Money Magazine’s Bank of the Year and Business Bank of the Year awards for the fifth year in a row
Jul 2022
Suncorp Bank’s turnaround times are the lowest they have ever been. The lender becomes Australia’s first certified carbon neutral bank for both its operation and transaction services
Aug 2022
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