Congratulations to Steve Gutilla Jr, Sam Eknonian, Clint Lucas, and Daniel Whittemore for being featured in the latest issue of The Business Journal (TBJ).
TBJ’s People on the Move section highlighted their outstanding growth within the company, and welcome some new faces to the brokerage, too!
Full bios and feature attached below.
Julie Michaels is now the new Commercial Lines Assistant in our San Luis Obispo office.
Julie has a passion for spending time with her family, theater, and travel. In fact, Julie spent 8 days in Egypt cruising down the Nile visiting such sites as the Great Pyramid of Giza where she climbed to the inner chamber. When not traveling, you can most likely catch Julie spending time with her two feline fur babies.
Welcome to the D&D family, Julie!
Ralph has over 27 years of insurance experience and is working with Matt Harbeck. Ralph is known for his passion for hiking, camping, swimming, and watching baseball. He has summited Mt. Whitney and Half Dome, which is pretty impressive.
Hallie has over 20 years of insurance experience and is working with Curt Zimmerman. Hallie is known for her love of the outdoors. She likes to trail run, hike, camp, and garden. It could be said that Hallie is a lover of pets given her collection of varied pets: a kitten, dogs, possums, grey squirrels, and the occasional duck and mallard that hang out in her swimming pool.
Welcome back Ralph and Hallie!
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Earlier this month, Blue Shield recognized D&D as their top Medicare Producer for Northern California.
We want to recognize Catherine Lumsden and Linda Hoang-Chao for their tireless work in this area. Thank you very much ladies for your incredible work. We’re proud of these two and their accomplishments at D&D!
We’d like to acknowledge Linda Doust, who is retiring after nearly 11 years as one of D&D’s Customer Service Representatives in the San Luis Obispo office. Linda, we are grateful for your years of dedication to our team and our clients and wish you all the best in your retirement!
Thank you to all who celebrated with us at San Luis Obispo Golf & Country Club.
We’re excited to announce that we have a new family member amongst us in Fresno. Rene Sanchez will be working with Dirk and team in the P&C Marketing Department.
Prior to joining the DiBuduo & DeFendis family, Rene Sanchez worked for over 15 years at Van Beurden Insurance Services, Inc. and their subsidiary, Inter-Pacific Insurance Brokers, Inc. During his tenure he earned the trust to be responsible for workers compensation claims as a consultant, MGA program broker/manager, and E&S broker/underwriter/manager, and Commercial Lines Marketing Manager. He also worked for State Compensation Insurance Fund for 6 years as a Workers Compensation Claims Adjuster / Workers Compensation Claims Liaison. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Business Administration from St. Mary’s College of California in 1994. He has been designated a PWCA (Professional Workers Comp. Advisor) and CWCA (Certified Workers Comp. Advisor)
He married his beautiful wife, Luisa Parra-Sanchez, on December 16, 2000. They have two daughters. Evania is 19 and is a Freshman who plays volleyball at CSU Dominguez Hills. His youngest daughter, Sofia, is 16 and a Sophomore at Clovis North High School. She also plays volleyball for her school and Valley Volleyball Academy. His wife is an MFT and has been working for the County of Fresno Children’s Behavioral Health Division for the last 24 years.
Rene enjoys spending his free time enjoying quality time with his wife and daughters. His family loves to take vacations in Mexico to enjoy the food, culture, and beaches!
Please say hello to him at the Fresno office, thanks!
Wishing you all the very best on your birthday and in the year ahead. From all of us!
We invite you to join us for the Easter Hunt & Luncheon on Thursday, April 6th!
Reminder that this Friday for St. Patrick’s Day we will be playing Bingo! See below for more information.
