Leadership

Jeff Svennes understands the challenges growers face because he has been a farmer his entire life. He experienced a couple of disasters years in the 80s and it would have been devastating to his business if it wasn’t for crop insurance. Jeff started selling crop insurance to help protect his neighbors. His business kept expanding until the founding of PRM in 2017. To this day, Jeff is passionate about protecting growers because he personally knows how much a loss can hurt.

Don Preusser has over 30 years of executive and operational leadership of Property/ Casualty Insurance Companies. Don has a broad background in Agriculture including prior to PRM, serving as President of John Deere Insurance Company and member of John Deere Financial where he led the effort to integrate precision farming technology into crop insurance.

Tommy Jones has over 35 years in agriculture, including 28 years with John Deere in multiple roles in North America and Australia growing Deere’s financial services business. During his time with Deere, one role was sales and marketing for Deere’s crop insurance division where they developed the first industry integration of precision field data directly to required crop insurance reporting.

Gary has almost 25 years of experience in the crop insurance industry and provides a unique perspective that few others share. From his personal lifelong involvement with farming and his early years as an agronomist to his years in crop insurance roles in Marketing, Claims, and Compliance, Gary understands the industry and what is important to growers. One of Gary’s strengths is his ability to communicate with all stakeholders, and he believes strongly in ensuring all parties understand the policies as well as the regulations governing them.

Heidi brings over 20 years of experience in project management, product development, data analytics and management, compliance, and risk management within the insurance sector. She oversees the compliance program for PRM to promote awareness of and compliance with company values, applicable laws, regulations, and policies, in addition to implementation and oversight of governance programs and risk management practices.

Kerry is a cutting-edge leader in the agriculture industry with over a decade of experience in the areas of Agent Training & Development, Business Operations Management, Information Technology, and Underwriting. Her experience across a variety of core departments and work with a diverse client base has led to expertise in many areas of staff learning and development along with the advancement of her team-building and interpersonal communication skills. With a commitment to results, Kerry has successfully developed and implemented cost-effective and high-impact agent training programs and tools throughout the country, while gaining an in-depth knowledge of state specific policies and procedures during her time as Director of Training & Software Support at AgriLogic Insurance Services, Inc

Landon’s professional and educational passions are finance and economics. Landon has worked in finance for 10+ years providing invaluable education, experiences, and growth that helps him serve PRM and its stakeholders. Landon is passionate about formal and informal education, sports, and his family. Landon has degrees in Economics and Finance from Liberty University.

Ryan Jones is an expert storyteller and data wonk. He started his career as a broadcast journalist producing news for a Nielsen top 10 market. Ryan transitioned into marketing to become Creative Director for one of the largest advertising agencies in the South. There he led teams of producers, graphic artists, web developers, social and SEO experts to shape powerful messaging for Fortune 300 companies. Ryan crafts all marketing and communications for PRM to help farmers understand crop insurance. He has an M.B.A. from the University of Colorado and an M.S. in Business Analytics from the University of Iowa.