National ABEN Day 2025

Sue Keegan Related Seminars and Products

Director of Education

Big I NY and Big I CT.

Sue Keegan is a graduate of the University of Akron with a Baccalaureate degree in political science and Syracuse University with a Masters in Business Administration with a concentration in marketing.  She worked in the claims business for 27 years all with the same carrier, Kemper.  She both handled and managed personal automobile, commercial automobile, general liability and product liability claims.  She is the current Director of Education for Big I NY and Big I CT.  She resides in Camillus, NY.

Brian Hutson, CIC, CRM Related Seminars and Products

Vice President

Assured Partners

Brian began his career in 1992 with Given/Woods Insurance Agency. He studied Insurance and Risk Management at SMU and graduated in 1994. In 1996 he left Given/Woods and started his own agency. He later merged his agency with Given/Woods when Glenn Woods retired. He sold the agency to Assured Partners in 2018 and continues to work at Assured Partners.

R. Bryan Tilden, CIC, CPCU, CLU, ChFC, ARM, AAI, CRIS Related Seminars and Products

President

Tilden and Associates

R. Bryan Tilden, CPCU, CLU, ARM, ALCM, ChFC, CIC, SCLA, is a National Lecturer and Expert Witness in the field of insurance. Prior to starting his own firm, he was the Director of Technical Affairs and Director of Education for IIANC. Since entering the insurance business in 1974 as an Account Executive, he has worked for major brokerage firms on Fortune 100 accounts around the nation. He specialized in large retention programs, utilizing the international insurance marketplace.

Tilden has been active in insurance education as a grading panel member for the Insurance Institute of America and the American Institute for Property Liability Underwriters. He has taught in every state in the US and also teaches in Bermuda and Europe. He has served on the Education and Technical Committees for the IIANC and worked with the State of North Carolina on pre-licensing and continuing education.  In 1988, IIANC presented him with the Ernest F. Young Education Award, and in 1989 Agent of the Year. He has taught in schools for both the PIA and IIA, been a speaker at RIMS and CPCU meetings, and has spoken at various conventions. He is a National Faculty Member for the Society of Certified Insurance Counselors.

An active volunteer in rescue services, Tilden is an internationally certified technical rescue instructor. In 2013, he received the Higgins and Langley Memorial Rescue Award for a Swiftwater Rescue Incident. He is a member of the International Association of Arson Investigators along with their NC Chapter, and teaches arson investigation courses.