TechAssure Association

Member Testimonials

Testimonial Quotes from TA Members about the Value they get from TechAssure

Member quotes:

• “I am a founding member of TechAssure and its been critical to our success in becoming the largest independent broker in our region. We thought we were innovative compared to our local competition but the truth is we learn something new every week from another TechAssure member – they are the “best of the best” and its inspiring to be involved in the constant innovation of better ways help clients.”

• “We joined TechAssure to accelerate the growth of our Tech industry practice group. We were blown away at our first meeting with the level of technical detail and the openness of the members to sharing their best practices. The sincerity of their commitment to doing what’s right for the client matched our own agency’s philosophy.”

• “Many of my clients are selling into the U.S. market. They open offices throughout the U.S. and are often concerned about the litigiousness of the American legal system. TechAssure’s benchmarking and exclusive research give me the competitive edge in educating my clients and helping them to understand what they need.”

• “Most of my clients are large multinationals with constantly evolving exposures to loss. I coordinate with my TechAssure partners to provide great advice and responsiveness at the local level around the world.”

• “Our membership in TechAssure gives us visibility to the leadership of the leading technology insurers that we would not otherwise have. We use the mutual commitments between TechAssure and these leading insurers to the benefit of our clients and as a differentiator between us and our competitors.”

• “The relationships and informal benchmarking between TechAssure members and their respective producers has been excellent for our agency. Exposing our new tech producers to seasoned tech producers from other TechAssure members is especially valuable. Our producers leave TechAssure meetings energized that they too can achieve the sales results as their more experienced TechAssure colleagues.”

• “TechAssure gave our agency the education, marketing and proprietary product platform to leap frog into a leadership position in the venture capital market in just 18 months. It would have taken us more than a decade to achieve these same results on our own.”

• “Programs like our Government Contractors initiative provide a tremendous advantage over competitors. TechAssure’s market leverage and relationships enabled the insurance carrier to give us the exclusive rights to the program for the first year. This is a big selling point – the key insurance companies recognize and truly value the expertise and the business that an organization like ours has to offer.”

• “The synergy we created is invaluable when competing with global brokers. TechAssure provides access to other highly skilled technology and medical technology specialists around the globe:
  • to gain new perspectives with the challenges we all face as industry specialists;
  • to bounce off ideas with agents who are not my competitors;
  • to assist in international placements.”

• “TechAssure’s combined technology and life sciences premium volume made us a force that carriers in this market space can not ignore.”

• “The NVCA endorsement of TechAssure was a key factor in us being named the Broker of Record for a very influential Northwest VC firm in 2004. The added credibility of TechAssure and NVCA was a clear factor in our selection “.

• “The NVCA endorsement and the portfolio company D&O product has been a door opener with both VC firms and individual companies. It is a product offering that is unique in our marketplace and has directly led to multiple closed sales opportunities “

• “We were recently involved in the negotiation of D&O for an IPO. The relationship that we forged with the head of a major Underwriters D&O department at a TechAssure meeting helped us get superior terms on the placement.”

• “We sent Account Managers and Producers to the TechAssure meetings. We found them to be a unique educational opportunity unlike any other. Where else can your personnel get specific educational offerings and networking that is just focused on Technology and Life Sciences? TechAssure has been invaluable for this vital need.”

• “The exclusive endorsement of the NVCA was a determining factor in a broker selection process that helped differentiate us from the competition and secure a pre-IPO $30,000 commission income account.”

• “The TechAssure network of resources for sales, marketing, proposals, coverage comparisons, etc. has taken our agency’s technology focus to a level that we could not have achieved on our own.”