People Moves: DealerPolicy Hires Super, Cross Insurance Promotes Burton

DealerPolicy Appoints Super as Head of Agency Solutions

DealerPolicy, an insurance marketplace for automotive retail, appointed Tom Super as the company’s head of agency solutions.

In this role, Super will report directly to DealerPolicy Co-Founder and CEO Travis Fitzgerald and oversee the company’s insurance sales and service business, which includes DealerPolicy’s network of local agencies.

Super’s appointment to expand insurance operations comes as DealerPolicy enters its next phase of growth. In 2021, DealerPolicy announced a $110 million Series C funding round led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management. The company has grown in headcount by 50% over the past year and now supports more than 1,200 dealerships nationwide, with more joining each month.

An insurance industry veteran, Super brings 15 years of experience in strategy, general management and leadership to DealerPolicy. He previously held positions at Farmers Insurance Group, Booz & Company, AT&T and The White House.

Most recently, Super served as head of property/casualty insurance for J.D. Power and Associates, where he led the expansion of the company’s insurance practice and oversaw its vast data-driven research and analysis on insurance consumers.

Source: DealerPolicy

Cross Insurance Promotes Burton as General Manager of Cross benefit Solutions

Cross Insurance, a subsidiary of Cross Financial Corp., promoted Mike Burton as senior vice president and general manager of Cross Benefit Solutions. He is based in Portland, Maine.

In this new role, Burton is responsible for leading Cross Benefit Solutions’ overall operation.

Burton most recently served as chief sales officer for Cross Insurance. As an insurance industry veteran for more than 25 years, he also has worked in a variety of sales positions in partnership with Cross and other Maine brokers.

Since its founding in 1954, Cross Insurance has grown through the acquisition of more than 120 insurance agencies throughout the Northeast. The company now has 1,000 employees operating out of offices in Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and Florida.

Source: Cross Insurance