Our founder started Choice Insurance Agency from zero, with his own balance sheet.
What began in ensuring clients have the right tools to protect their financial freedom has extended to wanting other brokers to preserve their legacies by joining like-minded agencies who, with the right tools, can take on the Goliaths of the industry with more nimbleness and personalized attention.
Choice Financial Group is a leading insurance agency with institutional capital support from Northlane Capital Partners, a middle-market private equity firm managing more than $1 billion of committed equity capital.
Bob Hilb serves as Senior Advisor to the Choice Financial Group on behalf of Northlane Capital. The founder of The Hilb Group, Bob brings with him experience leading more than 60 merger and acquisitions, and the growth acumen that served to take The Hilb Group from zero to $600 million in just seven years. Bob works directly with our partners to ensure Choice is leveraging its assets to follow in those same footsteps.
Choice Financial Group is one of the fastest growing agencies in the United States with institutional capital support from Northlane Capital Partners.
© Choice Financial Group 2023
There aren’t many responsibilities in a brokerage that Richard Braun didn’t fill after starting his first insurance firm, The Braun Agency, a Nationwide exclusive agency, in 1998. Richard expanded his business one policy at a time during the first several years as the last “scratch” agency that Nationwide appointed in southeast Virginia.
When Nationwide changed its distribution model, Richard merged The Braun Agency with an independent agency, Choice Insurance Agency, and launched Choice Financial Group in 2020.
Richard believed that the way forward for Choice and other like-minded agencies was to grow through partnership, in order to share resources and best practices and leverage technology and carrier relationships. Through the scale of partnership, partners are able to provide superior client experiences and achieve the highest levels of success in the marketplace.
Proud that Choice Financial Group was on track to be a top 100 agency in the United States by the end of 2022 and in the top 50 by the end of 2023, in Summer of 2022, Richard made the decision to retire and focus on other pursuits. He remains an active board member and shareholder of Choice Financial Group.
