Board of Directors
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J. Powell Brown, CPCU
President & Chief Executive Officer
Brown & Brown, Inc.
J. Powell Brown (40) was elected President of Brown & Brown, Inc., in January 2007. Previously he was a Regional Executive Vice President, since 2002, and also serves in an executive officer capacity for certain Brown & Brown subsidiaries. He oversees most of the Company’s wholesale brokerage and public entity operations located throughout the country. From 1998 to 2003, Mr. Brown served as profit center leader of the Company’s Orlando, Florida retail office. Prior to that, he was a sales producer and then Marketing Manager in the Daytona Beach, Florida retail office from 1995 to 1998. Before joining Brown & Brown he was with the Continental Insurance Company. A graduate of the University of Florida, with an MBA from Duke University, Mr. Brown serves on the Board of Directors of the SunTrust Bank/Central Florida and the Boggy Creek Gang. Previously he served on the Board of Governors of the Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce, and as a member of the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of Central Florida and the Bolles School Board of Visitors.