Peel Joins Swantner & Gordon Insurance Agency in Houston

Swantner & Gordon Insurance Agency has added Thomas Peel in the marketing department of the firm’s Houston office.

As a marketing representative, Peel will be responsible for analyzing and placing risk with appropriate insurers and negotiating rates for commercial clients.

Peel has more than 30 years of broad experience working in the broker, agency and insurer arenas. He has managed large risk management accounts and high-dollar claims with focus in the construction, energy, oil and gas production, food, manufacturing and retail industries.

He is a 1971 graduate of Rice University and a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), a professional designation conferred by the American Institute for CPCU and Insurance Institute of America.

Peel was most recently an Allstate Insurance Agency owner selling personal insurance in San Antonio. Early in his career, he worked at Swantner’s Corpus Christi office for 13 years as a senior executive providing oversight management for the wholly owned surplus lines agency. Peel also worked for 15 years at Marsh USA in San Antonio managing key accounts and three years at St. Paul Travelers Insurance as an underwriting manager for the South Texas region.

Swantner is the Corpus Christi-based arm of Higginbotham, one of the nation’s largest independent insurance firms with 17 offices in Texas.

Source: Higginbotham