Steven P. Beaty, Bankers Insurance Group
Steve Beaty is senior vice president and CIO ......" Although most of his operations involved banking, he crossed over into the insurance arena, dealing with medical software, mobile home coverages, and even writing a small agency management system that was sold primarily in Florida.
Sometimes it just pays to be in the right place at the right time. When the company he'd sold his business to [Jerger] was itself sold Beaty was starting to look around and Bankers Insurance was looking for a new CIO. He was tapped for the job.
... In its 25th year, the Bankers family of companies includes four insurance carriers, 20 subsidiaries, diverse products and services, and more than 1,200 professional associates. Beaty and his crew support 5,000 active agencies....
From post 74, on this thread
Florida Trend, Sept 2000 v43 i5 p16 Beaty, 41, started as an industry outsider with his own company, Micro Business Systems, providing software to independent agents. For Pinellas Park-based The Jerger Co., he developed a pioneering program that allowed it to quickly identify mobile homes by ZIP code and park. Thus, it could grow into the largest independent mobile home insurer in the Southeast, even as it spread its risk so that a single tornado didn't mean catastrophe for Jerger. In 1986, he sold Micro to Jerger and became its chief information officer. When Jerger was sold this year, Beaty jumped to Bankers.