Team Member Level: Partners

More Than a Business

Get a taste of the Integrity life and discover the people who are making it great.

October 13, 2020

Sean Ruggiero

Sean Ruggiero is President of Advanced Market Sales and a Managing Partner at Integrity Marketing Group. Sean’s focus is on helping consumers, agents and agencies with retirement readiness through the use of evolving Fixed Index Annuities. He provides his agents with expansive education, training and software to help them better serve Americans. His expertise includes..

October 6, 2020

Beverly Shackelford

Beverly is a Managing Partner of Integrity Marketing Group and Founder of Leads2Success, The Assurance Group’s affiliated lead generation company. Not long after giving birth to identical twin daughters, Brooke and Brittany, Beverly joined her husband, Ed Shackelford, in supporting the growth and expansion of their newly formed insurance agency. Beverly continues to be actively..

Ed Shackelford

Ed is a Managing Partner of Integrity Marketing Group and Founder of The Assurance Group. After spending seven years working long hours in North Carolina’s textile industry, Ed sought out a better future for his young family and secured his insurance license. Not long after, Ed founded Piedmont Brokerage which subsequently became The Assurance Group,..

September 21, 2020

Doug Price

Doug Price is President and CEO of Insurance Administrative Solutions and a Managing Partner at Integrity. Doug has more than 30 years of experience in all aspects of the life and health insurance industry, serving in several capacities including actuarial consulting, administration and insurance company operations. After graduating high school, Doug entered the U.S. Army..

August 17, 2020

Alison Gilliam Harville

Alison is the Director of Marketing for Southern Insurance Group and a Managing Partner at Integrity Marketing Group. She was born and raised in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. She attended Middle Tennessee State University where she received both Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Business Administration degrees. Alison has worked at Southern throughout her career and..

Mark Gilliam

Mark is the President and CEO of Southern Insurance Group and a Managing Partner at Integrity Marketing Group. He was raised in Centerville, Tennessee. He first entered the insurance industry in 1980 and by 1985 had earned a position as a regional sales director responsible for recruiting agents in multiple states. After building his team..

Emily Gilliam

Emily is CFO of Southern Insurance Group and a Partner at Integrity Marketing Group. She was born and raised in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. After moving to Nashville to work in finance, she met and married Mark Gilliam. They returned to her hometown of Lawrenceburg where they began their insurance business in 1981. During the last 40..

August 12, 2020

Frank DeJiulio

Frank is Founder and CEO of ASB Financial and a Managing Partner at Integrity. Frank has been helping Florida seniors protect their assets since 1986. With his expertise in Medicare, long-term care, life insurance and annuity investments, he has consistently been a top 5 National Producer as both a Branch Sales Manager and Regional Sales..

August 4, 2020

John Wetmore

John is a Managing Partner with Integrity Marketing Group, as well as Executive Board Member with Family First Life Agent Force, where he leads and mentors actively growing producers and agencies across the country. Up until 2013, he was an accountant crunching numbers, before getting into insurance and building a nationally acclaimed agency. John’s passion..

July 20, 2020

John Hockaday

John is COO and Principal of New Horizons Insurance Marketing and a Managing Partner at Integrity Marketing Group. After serving clients himself for many years, John realized the need to expand. In 1981, he and Jeff Sams became co-founders of Sams/Hockaday & Associates, which they grew to a staff of more than 30 agents. That..

Jeff Sams

Jeff is CEO and Principal of New Horizons Insurance Marketing and a Managing Partner at Integrity Marketing Group. He began his journey in the insurance industry in June of 1981 while attending Millikin University. Two years later, he became Managing General Agent with Standard Life, then Regional Director and finally National Marketing Director in 1988…

June 27, 2020

Andy Albright

Andy Albright has been successful as an entrepreneur, business owner, author and motivational speaker. He co-founded The Alliance in 2002, and quickly helped it grow into one of the largest and most successful insurance marketing organizations in the United States. As the top seller with numerous insurance carriers, The Alliance posts $100 million in sales..