As Senior Vice President for Government Affairs and Industry Relations, Wayne McOwen is responsible for leading GUARD’s regulatory, legislative, and industry affairs activities. Wayne is actively involved in the process on many different levels, including participation on key industry boards and committees as well as in his capacities as a registered federal lobbyist and as a registered lobbyist in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. In the past, he has not only been successful in getting our opinions heard, he has contributed wording to documents that resulted in legislative and regulatory change and has frequently provided testimony on issues before state and Congressional committees.
Now with the GUARD family for more than two decades, Wayne previously served as Vice President of a Vermont-based captive management company and performed related duties as Production Manager of an affiliated retail insurance agency. He spent the first decade of his insurance career with Commercial Union and rose to the position of Branch Manager before leaving to become Vice President/Partner of Reynolds, McOwen, & Smith, Inc., a Florida retail insurance agency. |