Dave Poms, president of Poms & Associates

LOS ANGELES (PRWEB)
September 14, 2020

Poms & Associates, an independent, full-service insurance brokerage and risk management firm, announced today that its founder and president Dave Poms has been awarded a Gold 2020 International Stevie Award in the “Entrepreneur of the Year: Insurance” category at The 17th Annual International Business Awards® (IBA). Poms’ win of the global awards program’s top prize recognizes his entrepreneurship and industry leadership in risk management and loss control and his community advocacy of child welfare and school safety.

“It’s a great honor to receive this recognition from the International Business Awards,” said Dave Poms, president of Poms & Associates. “This award is a testament to the fact that inspiration can strike in the most unlikely places – where frustration with the status quo or dealing with complex problems when conventional solutions have failed – and it is these kinds of challenges that make you think outside-the-box. With enough persistence, ingenuity, resourcefulness and compassion, we can all find solutions and make real progress on the issues that matter most.”

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, 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 “Top Insurance Workplaces” 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 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.

The International Business Awards are the world’s premier business awards program. The 2020 IBAs received more than 3,800 entries from organizations in 63 nations and territories.

“Despite the unprecedented impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on organizations and working people worldwide, the number and quality of nominations we received in this year’s International Business Awards attests to the continued outstanding performance of many organizations. The commitment we’ve seen through these nominations to maintaining the success, health, and safety of employees, customers, and communities is truly impressive,” said Stevie Awards president Maggie Gallagher.

For more information about Poms & Associates, visit https://pomsassoc.com/.

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/.

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