IBAO is proud to announce that its 68th President, Mr. Peter Burns, BES has been appointed to the Insurance Brokers Association of Canada (IBAC)
Peter is a community guy. He is dedicated to countless local causes, various sponsorships and volunteer’s on board committees. IBAO CEO Randy Carroll points out that “his ongoing contributions to the insurance industry in Ontario are incredible to watch and we are all excited to see these contributions extend to the industry as a whole”.
Peter has been a part of our industry since the early 1990’s. He graduated from University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Environmental Studies and worked in the community newspaper business. In fact, he was one of the founders of the Tillsonburg Indepenent, a community newspaper now owned by Sun Media.
Peter began his career in insurance when he joined Anderson & Benner, a small, three-person Insurance and Financial Services Brokerage in Tillsonburg. Shortly after, he served on the Board of Directors for the Oxford County Insurance Brokers Association for ten years, five of those being spent as President. In 2005, Peter was elected to the IBAO Board of Directors and in 2010 was elected to the role of President of this same board. He has chaired Education, Membership, Broker Management & Long Range Planning in the past for IBAO and served on the IBAC BIP committee.
Today, Peter is the President of Burns, Demeyere & Associates in Tillsonburg, Ontario.
Mr. Carroll said, “We are pleased to have Peter as our Ontario representative on the IBAC Board for the 2011- 2012 term. It will be exciting to see Peter bring his insight and knowledge to the national level.”