Finance & Insurance

LOCKE BURT
PRESIDENT, SECURITY FIRST INSURANCE, ORMOND BEACH
Burt started his career as a loan officer in a commercial bank in Chicago. He obtained a law degree at night, entered the reinsurance business in 1974, sold part of a reinsurance operation in 1990 and served as a Florida state senator for 12 years. After the storms of 2004 and 2005, he decided to start Security First Insurance, an underwriting manager for property reinsurance risks for Swiss Re, Markel and others. The company — the largest employer in Ormond Beach — began with 14,000 customers and five employees and has grown to employ 435 people serving 300,000 customers.
EDUCATION | Northwestern University (BS, MBA), Loyola (JD) |
CIVIC CONTRIBUTION | Purchasing backpacks for underprivileged, low-income children in our county schools. We also support Making Strides Against Breast Cancer and many other charities in Volusia and Flagler counties. |
SOMETHING SURPRISING | My wife and I were fixed up on a blind date by both her parents and mine when she was 17 and I was 19, and we have now been married 49 years. |
FLORIDA ISSUE | Protecting our infrastructure and homes from rising waters |
Fabiola Brumley
Bank of America
Trevor Burgess
Neptune Flood
Kevin Burgoyne
Florida Venture Forum
Locke Burt
Security First Insurance
Timothy Cartwright
Fifth Avenue Family Office
David Chitester
Seedfunders
Marcelo Claure
Sprint
Scott M. Coble
Wells Fargo
John Corbett
Centerstate Bank
KERRY DUSTIN
FALLS RIVER GROUP
Mike Fernandez
MBF Healthcare Partners
Ray Ferrara
ProVise Management Group
John Forney
UPC Insurance
John Fumagalli
Northern Trust
Pat Geraghty
Guidewell and Florida Blue
Barry Gilway
Citizens Property Insurance
Jorge J. Gonzalez
City National Bank
Drew Graham
Ballast Point Ventures
Keith Hoskins
Navy FCU
Dennis S. Hudson III
Seacoast Banking
KEVIN JOHNSON
SUNCOAST CREDIT UNION
Guy King III
M.E. Wilson
Rodger Krouse
Sun Capital Partners
Marc Leder
Sun Capital Partners
INEZ LONG
BLACK BUSINESS INVESTMENT FUND FLORIDA
Ian Mackechnie
Amscot Financial
Harold Mills
VMD Ventures
Michael Myhre
Florida SBDC Network
Gary Norcross
Fidelity National Information Services
Brian Philpot
AgAmerica Lending
Joy Randels
New Market Partners
Paul Reilly
Raymond James Financial
Garrett Richter
First Florida Integrity Bank
Robert Ritchie
American Integrity Insurance
Gene Schaefer
Bank of America
Yvette Segura
USAA
Bruce Sherman
Miami Marlins
Rajinder Singh
BankUnited
THOMAS SITTEMA
CONVERSUS
BILL SMITH
CAPITAL CITY BANK GROUP
James Tate
Tate Capital
TROY TEMPLETON
TRIVEST
Gary Tice
First Florida Integrity Bank
Mario Trueba
First Horizon
Jeff Vinik
Tampa Bay Lightning
Tom Wallace
Florida Funders
Will Weatherford
Weatherford Capital
Bill West
Bank of Tampa