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Steve Pearson, Prior to joining Live Oak, Strakhov was a branch
CIC, CRM, vice president of CNA in Ohio. Before that, he
ISU Insurance held management responsibilities for Alabama and
Agency Mississippi at Chubb and served as interim CEO
Network and managing director of field operations with a top
50 brokerage.
Steve’s experience
includes over ★★★★
20 years as
Independent Agency
owner running Rene Swan, CIC,
a neighborhood Renaissance
agency in San Francisco. Career achievements include Rene Swan serves
improving agent education via The National Alliance as the leader of
board service and creating new revenue for independent Renaissance Alliance’s
insurance agencies via ISU. West Region. In this
role, she is focused
★★★★ on our continued

expansion in western
Mike Strakhov, states, serving as the

Live Oak Bank highest-ranking liaison
in those states to our network’s agency principals, carrier
As executive director
of insurance partners, and employees. Prior to joining Renaissance,
lending at Live Rene served as President of United Valley Insurance
Oak Bank, Mike Services. Her previous experience includes regional
Strakhov educates management roles with Safeco Insurance Company
agency owners and MetLife Auto & Home. Prior to that, she spent
and organizations more than 20 years at local, regional, and national
on financing independent retail agencies, and served in financial
options, helping services roles including account manager, registered
them prepare representative, and president.
for acquisitions and perpetuation transactions. Since Rene earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Business
the insurance lending team was formed in 2015, Live Administration/Management from Fresno Pacific
Oak has lent more than $100 million to the insurance University, from which she graduated magna cum laude.
industry. Strakhov was instrumental in the formation She has been a Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC)
of the Insurance Networks Alliance, an industry group since 2011.
created to promote and improve relationships among
networks, carriers and other industry partners. ★★★★

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