Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Nick Doyle - Area President, Gallagher Affinity
Nick started his career as a business consultant for IBM’s Hong Kong practice supporting website optimization, attribution modeling, marketing, web analytics, and e-commerce implementations. While with IBM, he was engaged in system integration testing, business user support, client education, and consulting on the IBM WebSphere Commerce and CoreMetrics platforms. Upon joining DTPH, Nick implemented modern web analytics and reporting, and enhanced technology usage across the insurance business lines. He was responsible for the consolidation and quantification of all future IT projects, including buy or build analysis, IT project management, social media management and ongoing optimization.
Nick moved into a managing director and COO role with DTPH in 2016. In this capacity, he managed the planning and build-out of DTPH’s proprietary IP, including solutions to enhance the Company’s InsurTech business. Nick was successful in improving the site-specific conversion rate from 7.67% to 14.53% (an 89% increase).
Since March 2018, as CEO and Chief Revenue Officer Nick has primary responsibility for revenue growth through 1) deeper penetration into DTPH’s current health and wellness classes; 2) the addition of multiple new classes with similar risk profiles and similar premium levels to its current program; and 3) expansion into new higher premium classes potentially including doctors of chiropractic leveraging DTPH’s 60-year old Chiropractic Economics franchise and other similar classes (e.g., podiatry, dentistry, audiology, etc.) utilizing a content and audience acquisition or joint venture strategy. Nick has overall responsibility for setting strategy for all marketing channels including SEO, PPC, social media, email, affinity / affiliate, ad specialty, etc.
Faris Kishek - McKennson, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Faris Kishek is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt at McKesson Corporation, a Fortune 500 company. McKesson distributes pharmaceuticals and provides health information technology, medical supplies and care management tools. Faris has worked high complexity, cross-functional process improvement projects which generated millions in financial savings, mentored and coached Green Belts on award-winning projects, and trained hundreds of Yellow Belt and Green Belts on Lean and Six Sigma methodologies. Also, Faris is an Adjunct Instructor at Florida State College at Jacksonville where he teaches in the areas of Project Management, Logistics, Operations Management, and Supply Chain Management. In 2013, Faris achieved a Bachelor in Business Administration degree, with a concentration in Transportation and Logistics, from the University of North Florida. He was a board member on the Transportation and Logistics Society. In 2015, Faris achieve a Master of Business Administration degree from Jacksonville University.
Laurie Lee - The Legal Department For Service Professionals, PA CEO/Attorney
Laurie started her law firm in 2015 recognizing the need for a different kind of law firm; she wanted to share knowledge and create long-term relationships with clients as their trusted advisor changing the narrative of attorney-client relationships. Laurie’s deep understanding that relationships are essential to the success of the business owner; whether it’s relationships between owners, clients and customers, or community partners, a business must develop and adopt good business practices. In 2019, Elevate Business Law, PA was rebranded as The Legal Department for Service Professionals, PA. The new identity capitalizes on Laurie’s desire to serve others through the exchange of information and relationship building.