A repeat winner of the SouthCoast Media Group’s award for Best Insurance Agency, Sylvia Group uses SPS – the SG Protection System – to empower businesses and individuals with performance-based insurance, benefits and financial planning programs. SPS makes our clients active participants in managing risk and containing premiums, resulting in coverage that is both customized and cost-effective. Our areas of business insurance expertise include medical device and other forms of manufacturing, property management and development, municipalities and other nonprofit organizations, construction companies and contractors, and the food and hospitality industry. Our personal insurance products include the basics of home, auto and life, as well as specialty coverages such as cyber, watercraft and valuable items. In addition to making a difference for our clients, we make a difference for our community as a whole by actively supporting and serving many of southern New England’s most reputable and effective nonprofit organizations and institutions. We make a difference for our employees, too, providing competitive wages and benefits, state-of-the-art training and education, ample community service opportunities and an office environment that proves a workplace can be fun as well as professional. In 2020, Sylvia Group became an Alera Group company, enabling us to combine the local, personal service for which we're known with the scope and resources of a national firm.

At Starkweather & Shepley, we embrace the entrepreneurial spirit of our clients. It is within this spirit that we can confidently facilitate an effective relationship to assist our clients in managing and reducing their ultimate cost of risk. Our teams of professionals possess the requisite intellectual capital to properly analyze operational, financial, and strategic risk – to best protect your bottom line. www.starshep.com Media/Press Inquiries - Stefan Petrella, Spetrella@starshep.com

Ironside Insurance Group was founded in 2012 in downtown Boston’s financial district and has grown to become an insurance industry leader. By forging strong relationships with our professional partners and clients that are rooted in honesty and integrity, we have built a reputation for providing the best service and experience available. While we continue to always hope for the best, insurance affords us with the ability to prepare for the worst. Our customer-first mentality aims to help protect our clients’ families, assets, businesses, and overall financial futures. It’s not easy to consistently exceed expectations but our team does just that, every day. The insurance industry is changing and we are constantly adapting and improving right along side to make sure we are able to offer our clients customized solutions to their individual needs. Currently serving MA, NH, RI, ME, CT, NJ & PA, our agency is equipped for the modern era of all things insurance.

Alera Group is a growing leader, reimagining the complex risk management, insurance and financial services delivery experience through intentional collaboration connecting clients to holistic solutions that protect and grow all they value most. Working collaboratively across specialties and across the country, Alera Group’s team of more than 4,400 colleagues offer unique solutions, personalized services and proactive insights to help ensure each client’s business and personal success. By harnessing the power of purposeful collaboration, our colleagues deliver clear, holistic solutions to the most complex business and personal challenges.

We help employers manage the current risks and future costs of their health care plans by utilizing self-funding as their most cost effective and transparent health insurance option. An advocate for your plan and its beneficiaries, we help preserve plan affordability while maintaining quality provider access and care. Extensive service offerings and an experienced team allow us to manage every aspect of your health plan – from design and administration to proactive cost control through work-site health and wellness programs and disease management solutions. Diversified Group gives your company the tools and data it needs to gain control over health care expense. Plan members get financial protection and information they can use to maintain good health and a clear pathway to quality care. Diversified Group is a third party administrator based in Marlborough, CT. The Diversified Group of Companies... Your Solution to Health Benefits.

KTP Advisors™ is an advisory firm specializing in retiree health benefits. Our areas of expertise include group Medicare plans, healthcare exchanges and pharmacy benefits. While our primary focus is on the Labor market, the firm’s clients include Taft-Hartley funds, municipalities, corporations, universities and other institutions. KTP’s professionals combine expertise in retiree health benefits, pharmacy benefits, finance, and risk management with an acute understanding of the environment in which our clients operate. KTP leverages this experience and insight to help clients manage their benefit plans as efficiently as possible in order to Keep The Promises they have made to their stakeholders, whether they are employees, retirees, shareholders, or taxpayers. We enable vital promises to be kept. KTP is the exclusive retiree health benefit advisor to the Delaware Valley Health Care Coalition (DVHCC) comprising over 250+ Funds and 3+ million individuals. At KTP we believe advisors should be: • Exclusively focused on the client’s goals and objectives • Fiercely independent and free from conflicts of interest • Completely transparent regarding methods and amounts of compensation

Hi, we’re HUB. We advise businesses and individuals on how to reach their goals. When you partner with us, you’re at the center of a vast network of risk, insurance, employee benefits, retirement and wealth management specialists that bring clarity to a changing world with tailored solutions and unrelenting advocacy. So you’re ready for tomorrow. About Hub International Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Hub International Limited (Hub) is a leading full-service global insurance broker providing property and casualty, life and health, employee benefits, investment and risk management products and services. From offices located throughout North America, Hub’s vast network of specialists provides peace of mind on what matters most by protecting clients through unrelenting advocacy and tailored insurance solutions. For more information, please visit hubinternational.com.

Patriot is a national agency specializing in Employee Benefits, Property & Casualty and Personal insurance solutions. Backed by growth equity investors GI Partners and Summit Partners, Patriot is among the fastest-growing insurance services firms in the United States.

At Smith Brothers Insurance we serve as your family confidant and business’s enterprise risk manager. We’ve been in business for over 50 years, as an independently operated, Top 100 Broker, working towards our purpose of Helping Others. We use our consultative approach and personalized service to understand and manage your risk, protect your assets, and help you achieve your goals.

At Starkweather & Shepley, we embrace the entrepreneurial spirit of our clients. It is within this spirit that we can confidently facilitate an effective relationship to assist our clients in managing and reducing their ultimate cost of risk. Our teams of professionals possess the requisite intellectual capital to properly analyze operational, financial, and strategic risk – to best protect your bottom line. www.starshep.com Media/Press Inquiries - Stefan Petrella, Spetrella@starshep.com

Cross Insurance is a family owned insurance agency with over 40 branches throughout the Northeast. Established at the kitchen table of Woodrow Cross in 1954, today we have become one of New England’s largest independent insurance intermediaries. In 2023 and 2024 we were named the 2nd Largest Insurance Broker in Massachusetts. Since our founding, we have successfully acquired over 150 operations, increasing our footprint on the Northeast. With over 1,100 employees and counting, our experienced team is ready to provide insurance options for you. - 27th Largest Broker of U. S. Business, Per Business Insurance report ’20 - 2nd Largest Insurance Broker in Massachusetts, per Boston Business Journal ’22, '23, and '24 - Official Insurance Broker of the New England Patriots, Gillette Stadium, the Boston Bruins, the Boston Red Sox, and New England Revolution Four generations later, Cross Insurance is still family owned and operated. Cross Insurance is headquartered in Bangor, Maine.

Family run, independent insurance agency serving Worcester County and the Blackston Valley for over 80 years offering personal and commercial lines of insurance coverage.