LOS ANGELES, May 26, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Poms
& Associates, an independent, full-service insurance brokerage
and risk management firm, today announced that its founder and
president David Poms has been awarded a 2020 Gold Stevie® Award in
the "Entrepreneur of the Year: Insurance" category at the 18th
Annual American Business Awards®. Poms' win of the awards program's
top prize recognizes his leadership in rapidly growing Poms &
Associates as an independent, privately held company, his industry
leadership in risk management and loss control and his community
advocacy of child welfare and school safety.
The American Business Awards are the premier business awards
program in the U.S. Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word
meaning "crowned," the 2020 awards program received more than 3,600
nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every
industry. More than 230 professionals worldwide participated in the
judging process to select this year's Stevie Award winners.
"This is a tremendous honor from the American Business Awards. I
share it with the entire team at Poms & Associates that is
helping businesses and organizations to reduce their risk, loss and
cost and make health and safety core components of their company
cultures," said David Poms, founder and president of Poms &
Associates. "We have no greater focus than delivering the highest
level of service to our clients – and the communities in which they
operate – as a means for improving and protecting people's lives.
This award inspires us to continue pursuing excellence and
innovation to meet our clients' rapidly evolving needs, especially
in these uncertain times."
Poms founded Poms & Associates in 1991 based on the premise
that knowledge is the best insurance – that the best way to help
businesses and organizations is to serve not only as an insurance
broker but also as an educator about best practices in how to
reduce risk and prevent loss before an incident occurs. With a
company-wide emphasis on education and an ethic of
entrepreneurship, Poms & Associates today is among the top 50
privately held brokerage firms in the U.S. with six branch offices
in three states. The company has been repeatedly recognized as one
of the "50 Best Places to Work in Insurance" by Insurance Business
America magazine.
Over his career, Poms has been a driving force behind the
creation of many public entity pools in the western U.S., including
the New Mexico Public Schools
Insurance Authority (NMPSIA), which helps New Mexico's school system provide unique
coverages that are not commercially available in the insurance
market.
Within the past year – and under Poms' leadership – Poms &
Associates achieved a number of major accomplishments, including
implementing an innovative risk management program in New Mexico schools that provided active
shooter training and the tools for school administrators to make
safe decisions and quickly report incidents to authorities. This
training led directly to lives saved in shooting incidents in both
Roswell and Aztec, N.M. Poms also helped write two school
safety legislative bills that define and limit who can be armed in
New Mexico's public schools by
requiring certain qualifications before an individual can become an
armed security employee.
As the issue of sexual abuse continues to present a serious
challenge for the insurance industry, Poms is a vocal advocate for
the need for a major cultural change within companies and
institutions – one where processes and tools are put in place to
improve the safety of young people, and training and education are
made central to enabling quick action that protects them when
potential issues arise. In 2019, Poms successfully built bipartisan
political support in New Mexico
for legislation that created a task force to address the issue of
child predators in the state's public schools. The task force
serves as a national model for schools in other states.
Poms was named to the San Fernando Valley Business Journal's
2019 "Valley 200" list of the most influential people whose
involvement, commitment and contributions help improve the local
economy and quality of life. In the community, Poms supports
Chaminade College Preparatory in Los
Angeles; Heal the Bay, an ocean and watershed protection
nonprofit group in LA County; City of Hope, a private clinical
research center and hospital in Duarte,
Calif.; The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society; and the
Adelante Development Center, based in Albuquerque, N.M, that serves people with
disabilities, seniors and disadvantaged populations.
Poms is an advocate of the international Olympic Movement and
has served on the board of directors for the U.S. Olympic and
Paralympic Foundation for the past eight years. He also supports
the U.S. Center for SafeSport, a federally authorized nonprofit
organization that is working to end all forms of abuse in
sports.
"Despite the toughest business conditions in memory, American
organizations continue to demonstrate their commitment to
innovation, creativity, and bottom-line results," said Stevie
Awards president Maggie Gallagher.
"This year's Stevie-winning nominations are full of inspiring
stories of persistence, ingenuity, resourcefulness, and compassion.
We celebrate all of their stories and look forward to showcasing
them during our virtual awards ceremony on August 5."
Details about The American Business Awards and the list of 2020
Stevie winners are available at
http://www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.
About Poms & Associates
Poms & Associates is a leading independent, full-service
insurance brokerage and risk management firm with a proven track
record of providing innovative and customized solutions to
businesses in high-risk industries. Founded in 1991, the company
was built on the premise that knowledge is the best insurance –
that is, the best way to help businesses and organizations is to
serve not only as an insurance broker but also as an educator about
best practices in how to reduce risk and prevent loss before an
incident occurs. Poms & Associates today offers a wide range of
products and services, including property and casualty insurance
for commercial organizations and public entities, risk control,
human resources and employee benefits and private services for high
net-worth individuals. Among the top 50 independent brokerage firms
in the U.S., Poms & Associates is headquartered in Woodland Hills, Calf. It maintains branch
offices in Los Angeles,
Sacramento, Calif., the
San Francisco Bay Area,
Albuquerque, N.M. and Dayton, Ohio. For more information, visit
https://pomsassoc.com/. Follow on Twitter @poms_associates.
About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in eight programs: the Asia-Pacific
Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East Stevie
Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business
Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards
for Great Employers, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer
Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000
entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations.
Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind
them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the
workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at
http://www.StevieAwards.com.
SOURCE Poms & Associates