At Hotchkiss Insurance, we know by safeguarding one's most valuable assets, people and businesses are better able to grow and prosper. We work with you to understand your unique business and deliver tailored insurance solutions and risk management to protect you from life’s uncertainties. With an advisory approach and an ability to reduce complexity, we demonstrate an abiding care for all of those who entrust themselves to us. Whether you know you need business insurance, risk management, employee benefits consulting, personal insurance, surety, or you just want to start the conversation, we've got you covered. Hotchkiss is Texas-based, with main offices in Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Lubbock, and San Antonio. For more than 40 years, we've protected businesses of all sizes and industries. (Including construction, education, restaurants, landscapers, nursery growers, manufacturing, religious institutions, commercial construction, technology, home builders, energy, more) Endorsed by: Texas Nursery and Landscape Association, Texas Irrigation Association Member of: Builder Agent Network, exclusively endorsed by Texas Association of Builders Founders of: Texas Green Industry Safety Group, Texas Home Builders Safety Group Follow us! www.facebook.com/HotchkissInsurance/ twitter.com/hiallc 800.899.3750

USI is one of the largest insurance brokerage and consulting firms in the world, delivering property and casualty, employee benefits, personal risk, program and retirement solutions to large risk management clients, middle market companies, smaller firms and individuals. Headquartered in Valhalla, New York, USI connects over 10,500 industry-leading professionals across approximately 200 offices to serve clients’ local, national and international needs. USI has become a premier insurance brokerage and consulting firm by leveraging the USI ONE Advantage®, an interactive platform that integrates proprietary and innovative client solutions, networked local resources and enterprise-wide collaboration to deliver customized results with positive, bottom-line impact. USI attracts best-in-class industry talent with a long history of deep and continuing investment in our local communities. For more information, visit usi.com.

Frost provides banking, investments, and insurance services to businesses and individuals throughout Texas. Founded in 1868, Frost is one of the 50 largest U.S. banks by asset size. At Frost, everything we do is aimed at making customers’ lives better. We do it by creating and delivering great experiences to them every time they interact with us. Through teamwork, collaboration and a commitment from everyone involved, we’ve succeeded in that goal time and time again. And we’re incredibly proud of the results—technology that helps us serve our customers, industry-leading security that inspires confidence and a quick and agile workforce that serves our customers in ways no other bank can. Frost is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any protected trait including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, ethnicity, disability, or veteran status. For more information on our social media policies, please visit frostbank.com/social.

What makes Lockton stand apart is also what makes us better: independence. Our private ownership empowers our 12,500+ Associates doing business in over 140+ countries to focus solely on clients' risk and insurance needs. With expertise that reaches around the globe, we deliver the deep understanding needed to accomplish remarkable results.

BCI Insurance Solutions, Inc. (BCI) is an Alliant Insurance Services company. We help individuals and businesses achieve peace of mind through our consultative approach to design and implement comprehensive benefit programs as well as Compliance, HR Services, and Technology Solutions. As one of the largest small business focused agencies in the United States, BCI also creates strategic partnerships with other agencies across Texas by making available our wide array of solutions, and specialists, to their clients. Since 1983, BCI has developed relationships with employers, individuals, independent agents, and insurance carriers. Our commitment and consistency has resulted in becoming one of the largest group and individual benefits agencies in the country, and holding elite status with all major insurance carriers. We serve over 6,000 companies and represent more than 100 top-rated insurance carriers. Our group insurance employers range from 2 person companies to businesses with more than 1,000 workers. BCI joined forces with Alliant Insurance Services, a national leader in insurance, employee benefits, and consulting. Alliant, with its vast array of resources and technology solutions, will provide a strong foundation for us to deliver an even higher level of service to our clients and broker partners.

Higginbotham is a single source solution for insurance, financial and HR/employee benefits services. The employee-owned firm was established in 1948 and ranks by revenue today as the nation’s 21st largest independent insurance brokerage. Based in Fort Worth, Texas, Higginbotham serves businesses and individuals through locations across the nation. The firm specializes in tailoring programs to meet each client’s unique needs, and in standing by those programs with their Day Two Services®, which provide proactive customer support through the life of each policy. Higginbotham is a values-driven firm that strives to be family to employees, accountable to clients, teammates to carriers, and generous to communities.

Gallagher, a global insurance brokerage, risk management, and consulting firm, serves communities around the globe, helping clients address risk, protecting assets, and recovering from losses. The products and services we provide keep businesses and institutions running, and enable individuals and families to face their future with confidence. Gallagher provides retail and wholesale property and casualty brokerage, alternative risk transfer services, employee benefit consulting, and actuarial services. Gallagher also offers claims and information management, risk control consulting and appraisal services, human resource consulting, and retirement services. Follow us on social: Instagram: http://instagram.com/gallagherglobal Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/GallagherGlobal Twitter: https://twitter.com/GallagherGlobal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/GallagherGlobal

Brown & Brown delivers risk management solutions to help protect and preserve what our customers value most. Our three business segments—Retail, Programs and Wholesale Brokerage—offer a wide range of insurance solutions to businesses and individuals. We are one of the insurance industry’s most powerful and influential leaders, with a strong, deeply rooted cultural foundation built on integrity, innovation, superior capabilities and discipline. The Power of WE ignites our performance, and while diverse and varied in abilities and experience, we are all connected through our core values, a commitment to our local communities and a shared mission—always doing what is best for our customers. Brown & Brown is proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work®, and we are always actively looking for talented teammates who embrace our culture to join our winning team. Find us on the NYSE as BRO.

Founded in 1933, Stephens is a family of privately-held, independent financial services firms focused on building value for companies, state and local governments, institutions and high-net-worth investors. We are headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, with offices in leading cities across the country and overseas. Since our founding, Stephens has pursued an independent course. We’ve built our firm on long-term relationships and enduring values, establishing an international reputation for vision, integrity and innovation. Free from herd mentality, short-term thinking and quarter-to-quarter imperatives, we’ve always stayed focused on the people who matter most: our clients. As investors and business owners ourselves, we have a unique perspective on the world. We understand the needs and concerns of individual investors, industry leaders and public interest stewards. Because we sit on the same side of the table as our clients, we are able to understand their goals and help build their future in partnership. © 2025 Stephens Inc. | Member NYSE, SIPC Disclosures: https://stephens.com/social-media http://www.stephens.com/

Established in 1970 by Marvin Smith, our company has grown to a full service insurance agency. Currently, Insuramax serves the insurance needs of over 5,000 individuals and families, and over 1,000 businesses. Insuramax is a firm that utilizes a unique business model known as the "Risk Reduction Approach and/or Total Benefits Approach". We focus on an elite client group providing long term risk reducing services that will lower their total cost of risk and improve their profitability. As a result of implementing a specifically designed risk reduction plan our client's operations become more attractive to the insurance marketplace.