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r r r r r r r r I I L L L L l e e AT YOUR SERVICE: OUR STAFF RESOURCES It is The Joseph Ivy Company's practice to assemble a service team of consultants whose combination of skills and experience will best serve our client. This proposal contemplates the services of two principals, William I. Martin, Jr. and Francis J. Fey. Both Mr. Martin and Mr. Fey have extensive experience in the property/casualty needs of Texas cities. Their experience and Qualifications are summarized below. WILLIAM 1'. MARTIN, JR. is President of The Joseph Ivy Company. For the past 18 years, he has been deeply involved in the program design and operational mechanics of risk management and employee benefit services in both government and business--municipal governments, school districts, special purpose authorities (water, transportation, etc.), trade and professional associations (captives, pools, trusts, risk retention groups, and group purchasing arrangements), financial institutions, and architectural and engineering firms. Mr. Martin spent 13 years as chief executive officer of the largest intergovernmental risk sharing pool in the United States ($105 million combined annual written workers' compensation, liability, property, health, life and dental premiums). Mr. Martin has broad experience in strategy development, risk financing alternatives, contract negotiations, marketing, risk management information systems, property/casualty loss control, and employee benefit plan design, communication, and cost containment measures. His active involvement in state and national risk and employee benefit professional organizations--Risk & Insurance Management Society, Public Risk & Insurance Management Association, and International Risk Management Institute--is manifested by his varied presentations before conference, seminar and workshop groups as well as his numerous journal publications. Mr. Martin earned the Master of Arts in Public Administration from the University of Texas at Austin and the Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from Louisiana State University. FRANCIS J. FEY is Vice President of The Joseph Ivy Company. Mr. Fey has extensive experience in the property/casualty insurance field having served as a marketing representative and field underwriter with a large regional insurance brokerage firm and as staff director of the Senate Jurisprudence Committee Interim Study on the Texas Workers' Compensation Assigned Risk Pool. His work on the latter resulted in legislative adoption of major financial and administrative reforms of the $80 million State pool. Prior to his current position, Mr. Fey had operational responsibility for the nation's largest workers' compensation, liability and property self -insurance pool serving local government entities; annual premium volume was $75 million. His management responsibility included more than 20,000 casualty claims annually, risk management information systems, budgeting, underwriting, marketing. policy!contract issuance, and loss prevention. He has particular expertise in the placement of coverages in the excess and surplus line market. Mr. Fey has been an active participant in both PRIMA National and the Texas PRIMA chapter. In addition, Mr. Fey is a frequent speaker on pooling and risk management topics. Most recently he was instrumental in planning of the first PRIMA Pooling Seminar, where he was a featured speaker on pool administration and board member orientation. Mr. Fey received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Rice University and has done specialized study in insurance company executive development programs as well as programs sponsored by the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) and the Public Risk and Insurance Management Association (PRIMA). - 5- .f" If THE JOSEPH IVY CCMP'~NV ~:1