Lowry Baldwin has served as Chairman since co-founding the Company in 2011. Mr. Baldwin’s insurance career began in 1981 at Aetna Property & Casualty. Two years later, he joined Baldwin & Sons. In 1991, Mr. Baldwin and Chuck Davis merged their firms to found Davis Baldwin Insurance and Risk Management. In 2006, Mr. Baldwin and his partners, Elizabeth Krystyn and Laura Sherman, formed what is today the Middle Market Operating Group. In 2012, Mr. Baldwin and his partners formed Baldwin Risk Partners to serve as a holding company for further investment into the insurance brokerage space. In 1997, Mr. Baldwin co-founded Advantec Solutions, Inc., a national Professional Employer Organization serving small and mid-size businesses by providing outsourced payroll, human resources, employee benefits and benefits administration and workers compensation. Mr. Baldwin earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Wake Forest University.

As the CEO of The Baldwin Group, Trevor is accountable for setting the organization's vision and strategy and steering its growth. With more than 15 years of experience in insurance, risk management, and private equity, Trevor brings a unique cross section of skill sets and expertise to his role as he leads The Baldwin Group in its mission to become the leading “broker of the future” and protecting the possible for its clients. 

Before ascending to his current role as CEO, Trevor held several roles across the firm before taking the company public in 2019. Prior to joining The Baldwin Group, he sharpened his investment and operational abilities while working in private equity. 

Trevor holds a BA in Risk Management & Insurance from Florida State University. He serves on the Board of Directors for the HopeWill Foundation, a Florida-based charity that supports research for Nephrotic Syndrome, and on the Board of Trustees for The Institutes, the leading non-profit provider of risk management and insurance education and resources.

Jay Cohen has served as a Director of the Company since June 2021. From 1995 to 2020, Mr. Cohen served as Managing Director of Equity Research at BofA Securities Inc., where he covered property and casualty insurance companies and insurance brokers.  From 1990 to 1995, Mr. Cohen was an Equity Research Analyst with Salomon Brothers. Prior to that, Mr. Cohen served as a Senior Representative, Bond Department with Aetna Casualty & Surety. Mr. Cohen is currently a Board Member of the United Way of Putnam and Westchester County and serves on the Parents Network Board of Claremont McKenna College. Mr. Cohen holds a BA in Managerial Economics from Union College and an MBA in finance from Columbia University.

Joseph J. Kadow has served as a Director of the Company since February 2020. From 2005 to 2019, Mr. Kadow served as the Chief Legal Officer of Bloomin’ Brands, Inc. Prior to his role as Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of Bloomin’ Brands, Inc., Mr. Kadow was Vice President and General Counsel of Bloomin’ Brands from 1994 until 2005. Prior to that, he served as a partner in the Orlando, Florida office of the national law firm, Baker Hostetler LLP. Mr. Kadow is a past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Restaurant Association and past Director, Audit committee member, and Chair of the Special Committee of Habit Restaurants, Inc. until March 2020, when Habit Restaurants, Inc. was acquired by Yum! Brands, Inc.  Mr. Kadow received his Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from the University of Scranton and his J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law at Pennsylvania State University.

Barbara Matas has served as a Director of the Company since February 2020. Ms. Matas has over 35 years of corporate finance and banking experience. From 2013 to 2016, Ms. Matas served as the Chairman of Citigroup’s Leveraged Finance business. Prior to serving as Chairman of Citigroup’s Leveraged Finance business, Ms. Matas was Head and Co-Head of the group from 2006 to 2013. Ms. Matas joined Citicorp in 1985 and held various other leadership positions in leveraged finance and high yield capital markets at Citicorp, Salomon Brothers and Citigroup until 2006. Currently, Ms. Matas serves as a director of Apollo Investment Corporation, a position she has held since 2017, and a director of Sleep Number Corporation (formerly known as Select Comfort) since 2016. Ms. Matas holds a B.S. in accounting and quantitative analysis from New York University and an M.B.A. in corporate finance from the University of Michigan.

Sathish Muthukrishnan was named chief information, data and digital officer for Ally Financial Inc. in December 2019. In this role, Muthukrishnan is responsible for advancing Ally’s technical and digital capabilities, including customer experience, data & analytics, cyber security and infrastructure, and accelerating the company’s growth and evolution as a leader in the digital financial services sector. He reports to Ally’s CEO.

Muthukrishnan has been nationally recognized as a leader focused on digital transformation and emerging technology. In 2024, he was named Innovator of the Year by American Banker, inducted into the CIO Hall of Fame, and joined the Forbes CIO Next list for technology executives guiding their organizations into a new era. His teams have been honored multiple times by the CIO 100 and CSO 50 for top technology projects that demonstrate outstanding innovation, leadership and business value.

Prior to joining Ally, Muthukrishnan held several senior technology leadership roles with substantial scale and global reach, and previously served as the chief digital and information officer for Honeywell Aerospace, a $14 billion business within Honeywell International. He has more than 20 years of technology leadership experience in complex businesses with high availability and reliability requirements on their technology. He spent 10 years in financial services with American Express prior to joining Honeywell.

Muthukrishnan graduated from University of Madras with a degree in engineering, specializing in computer science. He is a member of the Advisory Board of WIT International and was recipient of the Chairman’s Award for Innovation at American Express. He joined the Board of Directors at The Baldwin Group in 2023. Muthukrishnan has more than 25 filed patents in the manufacturing, payments and digital technology space.

Chris Sullivan has served as a Director of the Company since September 2019. Mr. Sullivan is a founder of Outback Steakhouse, and former Chairman & CEO of Outback Steakhouse. From February 1991 to March 2005, Mr. Sullivan was CEO of OSI Restaurant Partners, Inc. (now OSI Restaurant Partners, LLC). Since 2012, Mr. Sullivan continues to serve as Chairman of MenuPad Inc. and since 2013, Mr. Sullivan continues to serve as Chairman of Omnivore Technologies, Inc. Since 2014, Mr. Sullivan continues to serve as Co-Chair of Consul Partners LLC. Currently, Mr. Sullivan serves as the Co-Chairman and Board of Directors for The First Tee of Tampa Bay, and Board of Directors for Copperhead Charities and Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans. Mr. Sullivan is active in numerous charitable organizations focusing on education, catastrophic diseases, and is Chairman of ART International, a PTSD focused nonprofit group. Mr. Sullivan received a BS in business and economics in 1972 from the University of Kentucky.

Ms. Parasuraman is a senior technology executive who has built and scaled world-class teams at Meta (Facebook), VMware, Genentech, and Apple. Ms. Parasuraman most recently served as the Head of Investments, New Product Experimentation at Meta (Facebook) and, prior to that, served as Facebook’s Global Head of Treasury and Head of Treasury for Facebook’s blockchain initiative (Libra).

Ms. Parasuraman currently serves on the Board of IREN (NASDAQ: IREN), a leading clean energy data infrastructure company, where she is Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee. She also serves on the Board of the IIT Bombay Heritage Foundation and chairs the governance, nomination and finance Committees.

Ms. Parasuraman holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, a master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Mr. Williams brings extensive leadership experience in sales strategy and operations, most recently serving as President of Sales Strategy and Sales Operations at United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS). In this role, he was responsible for critical functions including data analytics, sales budget and compensation, CRM technology, business development, sales training, process improvement, negotiations, and executive presentations.

He also possesses significant board experience, having served on the boards of the MARCH Foundation (Mutual Alliance Restoring Community Hope), PackageX (as an Advisory Board Member for the Machine Vision and Machine Learning AI Company) who is also reshaping the world of logistics by building the world’s first unified platform for every step of the logistics journey, as well as Chairman of the Atlanta Public Schools CTAE Board. His board service also includes the Business Administration & Economics Board at Morehouse College, the Albert W. Smith Scholarship Committee Board and The Center for Advance Logistics Management Board at Albany State University.

Mr. Williams holds a B.B.A. from Albany State University and an M.B.A. from Florida Metropolitan University at Tampa College.
 

Ms. Shook currently serves as the Chief Leadership and Human Resources Officer for Accenture, a global professional services company. She is focused on helping the 674,000 people of Accenture succeed both professionally and personally. Prior to that, Ms. Shook held Chief Human Resources and Global Human Resources roles with Accenture. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shaper Community Foundation Board, the Women’s Leadership Board of the Women and Public Policy program at Harvard’s Kennedy School, and serves on the board of directors for Paradigm for Parity and the HR Policy Association. She also serves on the executive committee of the Professional Roundtable of CHROs and is active in both the NY Jobs CEO Council and HR50. Ms. Shook holds a B.S. from Purdue University.

Mr. Spark’s insurance career spans nearly forty years of underwriting and broking experience, leveraging deep insurer relationships and complex coverage expertise across multiple specialty insurance lines to deliver exceptional outcomes for clients in several industries.

He has served as Executive Chairman of CAC Group since its founding in 2019, guiding its remarkable growth trajectory that featured organic revenue expanding at a nearly 30% compound annual rate. Prior to CAC, Mr. Sparks held several leadership roles at McGriff, Seibels & Williams, including as the founder and head of its financial services division. Earlier in his career, he served as a Senior Vice President at Aon Corporation and as a Customer Group Practice Leader at Chubb.

Mr. Sparks graduated from Georgia State University with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in finance and is a board member for the university’s Risk Management Foundation.