Boyd French

About Boyd French

Leader with proven record of hands-on success building high performing sales organizations for National Insurance Carriers.Extensive experiencing successfully recruiting, hiring, training, managing and motivating sales and sales management personnel to achieve top-ranking performance. Excellent track record identifying and mentoring promising leadership talent to the next level. Solid career history of creating a winning culture focused on achieving team and individual goals.Excellent operating at point-of-sale and assisting others with developing effective sales strategy.Thorough understanding of the performance factors that make a Salesperson or Sales Manager successful.Highlighted Achievements:• Won top annual sales performance and leadership awards over 14 times as an Account Executive, Region Manager, Director of Sales, Senior Director of Sales and Vice President for National Insurance Carriers. Promoted for performance 6 times during career.• Hired, trained and mentored over 200 sales and sales management personnel for Sentry Insurance and Crum & Forster. • Built Sentry Insurance\'s Dealer Special Accounts unit offering commercial lines coverage to large franchised dealers. Led team to significantly exceed company premium growth and profit expectations. Grew program to over 60 insured dealers within 3 years. • Integrated day-to-day operations and aligned distinct cultures during major company acquisition, successfully assimilating 100 newly acquired employees for Crum & Forster.• Built and led a team of Regional Vice Presidents in supporting and extending nationwide company growth targets for C&F\'s commercial lines business segments with annual premium of $450M earned via agent and broker sales.

Experience

1. Regional Marketing & Business Development Manager

   AF - Group

   Nov 2023 — Present · Columbia, MO, US

Education

• University of Missouri-Columbia

  BS

• National Alliance

  CIC