2015 40 Under 40 Broker Awards: Robin Amstutz
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Vice president of surety
Integro USA Inc.
Age: 36
Perhaps surety is in Robin Amstutz's blood — her father, Paul Amstutz, served as president and CEO of NAS Surety Group.
And it's on the brokerage side of surety that Ms. Amstutz has made her mark. As vice president of surety in Integro USA Inc.'s Chicago office, Ms. Amstutz leads a team that placed more than $5.3 million in premium in the surety market for more than 150 clients last year.
This year, Integro Chicago launched a new sales initiative with Ms. Amstutz being named salesperson of the month for three consecutive months and early indications that her book of business will post another 20% increase in revenue by the end of this year.
“Surety brokers touch a lot of clients, you have a variety of personalities and styles,” said Tom Zacharopoulos, managing principal and Integro's Chicago office leader. “Robin's very flexible, and very attentive to clients' needs — haven't met a client yet who has disliked Robin at all. She gets it technically. “
“She's always quick to respond, very thorough in her work,” said Dawn Tibbs, director of financial planning and analysis at nonprofit health plan Mercy Care Plan in Phoenix.
Ms. Amstutz has a degree in music and began her career as a teacher.
“Being a teacher, you learn to multitask pretty well, and that transfers over,” she said.
As vice president, she handles the surety placement for the Chicago, Boston and New York offices, as well as all health care accounts.
One of the things Ms. Amstutz likes best about commercial surety is “you never know what's going to come across your desk,” she said.
“The strangest bond I've ever written was a cadaver bond,” she said. Ms. Amstutz said such a bond is issued to a medical school when it gets a body that's been donated to science. “It's basically a bond to guarantee the correct handling of body.”
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