Management Team



   
Rebecca Wingate
President
Email: rwingate@highland.com

Rebecca G. Wingate serves as President of Highland Capital Brokerage. Becky has almost 30 years of experience in the insurance industry with an extensive background in building and successfully leading a brokerage distribution channel. Before joining Highland , from 1996 to 2007 she was President and CEO of LifeMark Partners which is a national marketing organization comprised of 48 brokerage agencies. Becky began her career in the insurance industry at United of Omaha in Omaha, NE where she rose through multiple managerial roles to hold leadership positions in policy owner service, claims and sales.  Becky was responsible for moving United of Omaha into the life brokerage arena and managing this distribution channel from 1991 through 1996.

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Chase Allen
Director of Key Accounts
Email: callen@highland.com

Chase Allen serves as Director of Key Accounts for Highland Capital Brokerage and shares responsibilities for relationship management and marketing initiatives within the institutional arena. Chase has over four years of experience in the insurance industry, and his focus is being a liaison between Highland’s institutional accounts and its field by maintaining ongoing communications, site visits, coordination of sales teams, and bridging the communication gap between all parties. He also serves as a resource for internal areas, bringing together Operations, Commissions, Licensing and Contracting, and Corporate Communications teams, in order to provide Highland’s Key Accounts with quality support. New institutional account profiling, setup, and rollout are also facets of Chase’s responsibilities.

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Pete Boucher
Senior Vice President of Institutional Distribution
Email: pboucher@highland.com

Pete Boucher serves as Senior Vice President of Institutional Distribution for Highland Capital Brokerage. In this position, he will work with HCB’s existing institutional customers to develop strategies to grow their insurance revenues by leveraging HCB’s value proposition. Mr. Boucher has significant international expertise and will be responsible for Highland’s foreign national initiative. Prior to joining Highland, he was Group Director of Business Development for HSBC Insurance Agency (USA), where he oversaw distribution and product sourcing for all insurance products distributed through HSBC Bank in the U.S.

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Stefanie Dwyer
Vice President, Independent Producer Marketing
Email: sdwyer@highland.com

Stefanie Dwyer serves as Vice President, Independent Producer Marketing for Highland Capital Brokerage. Her responsibilities include handling of HighCap Financial, evaluating the program and looking for ways to strengthen and grow this piece of the Highland value proposition. Prior to joining Highland, Ms. Dwyer served as AVP of Operations for PartnersFinancial. Her responsibilities in this role included carrier relationship management, managing advisory council meetings for each core carrier, and evaluation and implementation of marketing initiatives in conjunction with the Business Development VPs to grow sales with each core carrier. 

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Meredith Gay
VP of Finance & Controller
Email: mgay@highland.com

Meredith Gay serves as VP of Finance & Controller for Highland Capital Brokerage. She is responsible for managing the financial accounting functions of Highland Capital and the financial accounting team, which include cash management, financial reporting, and firm operations/relationships. She works closely with the NFP Corporate Accounting Department in the areas of financial reporting and financial analysis. Ms. Gay is a Certified Public Accountant.

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Anthony Lancaster
Vice President of Field Operations
Email: alancaster@highland.com

Anthony Lancaster serves as Vice President of Field Operations for Highland Capital Brokerage. He is responsible for maintaining and facilitating training on brokerage operations platform systems, carrier outreach initiatives, and he is the corporate liaison to operations and marketing back office staff in field offices. Prior to joining Highland , he was with New York Life, where he held the position of Director of Operations for New York Life's Chicago Life Insurance Operations.

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Kate Marshall
Assistant Vice President of Brokerage Compensation
Email: kmarshall@highland.com

Kate Marshall serves as Assistant Vice President of Brokerage Compensation for Highland Capital Brokerage. She is responsible for overseeing the Compensation and Commission Accounting Departments. Ms. Marshall first joined Highland Capital Brokerage during college as an intern in the Accounting Department. Prior to joining full-time, she worked for PricewaterhouseCooper for two years auditing Protective Life Corporation and its subsidiaries in Birmingham. Ms. Marshall is a Certified Public Accountant.

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Julie A. Schneider, ACS, CSA
Senior Vice President, HighCap Financial and Independent Distribution
Email: jschneider@highland.com

Julie Schneider, ACS, CSA, serves as Senior Vice President, HighCap Financial and Independent Distribution. She is responsible for the strategy and direction of HighCap Financial, as well as development of Highland Capital Brokerage’s overall independent distribution, which includes the differentiation of specific client types within the general brokerage. With more than 14 years industry experience, she most recently served as Distribution Operations Manager for Jefferson Pilot Financial. In this position, she was responsible for providing wirehouse and national account support, field communication and the management of interdepartmental projects. Previously at Jefferson Pilot, she coordinated servicing department efforts to improve customer service.

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Wilma Morales Turner
Assistant Vice President of Marketing Communications & Advertising
Email: wturner@highland.com

Wilma Morales-Turner serves as Assistant Vice President of Marketing Communications & Advertising and is responsible for communications, public relations, advertising, strategic branding, event planning, and promotions. Ms. Turner has twenty years of marketing communications experience in the financial services industry. Most recently, she was the Director of Marketing Communications and Advertising for Fortis Benefits. Prior to that, Ms. Turner worked at Protective Life Corporation for sixteen years and held several marketing management positions within the company. Her responsibilities at Protective included communications, advertising, product marketing, copywriting, graphic design, and conference planning.

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