Davies names new National Account Executive as it plans for growth and expansion into new territories

Davies, the leading specialist professional services and technology firm, today announces that Kelby Armistead has been appointed to the role of National Account Executive for the Davies Claims Solutions (DCS) core service line.

As National Account Executive, Armistead will assume a business development role throughout the southwest region, including Texas and Oklahoma, reporting directly to Glenn Backus, Chief Business Development Officer. Armistead brings five (5) years of professional sales development service expertise, including software technology sales working with insurance brokers, and consulting other customers throughout the sales cycle.

In recent months, Davies has made a series of key appointments naming Matt Button as CEO of its North American Claims Solutions arm, as well as announcing James Heath as Group Chief Risk Officer, and Jeff Chang as General Counsel in a move to further strengthen its global leadership team as it continues its expansion into new territories and to add new domain expertise.

Globally Davies has more than 3,700 colleagues, with operating centers across the UK, Ireland, Bermuda, the US and Canada. The business delivers professional services and technology solutions across the risk and insurance value chain, including excellence in claims, underwriting, distribution, regulation, customer experience, human capital, digital transformation & change management.

Glenn Backus, Chief Business Development Officer of Davies said: “Kelby has the proven business development track record meeting and exceeding revenue goals, and will be an excellent asset to our current Sales & Marketing Team tasked with meeting aggressive revenue goals for our business.”

Kelby Armistead added: “Having worked with and led various sales teams to successes in the past I very much look forward to working alongside Glenn & the team during and beyond this next phase of growth.“

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About Davies
Davies is a multi-award-winning specialist professional service and technology business. Davies delivers operations, consulting, and technology solutions across the risk and insurance value chain, including excellence in claims, underwriting, distribution, regulation, customer experience, human capital, transformation & change management. Following the acquisition of Keoghs, Davies’ core service lines will include: Claims Solutions, Legal Solutions, Insurance Services, and Consulting & Technology (incorporating the specialty consultancy, Ember, and SaaS platforms; ServiceTick & Veriphy). Davies has a 3,750 strong team of professionals across the UK, Ireland, Bermuda, the US and Canada with headquarters in the City of London, UK. Davies Claims Solutions (DCS) is the North American core service line of Davies, headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. DCS provides end to end solutions for property, liability, workers’ compensation, auto claims, and more with desk-led technical claims handling, field adjusting, and appraisals, and supply chain solutions. With TPA offices and field adjusters located strategically throughout the US and parts of Canada, we continue to build an industry reputation for delivering best in class technical capability, customer experience, and settlement outcomes. For six (6) consecutive years, our staff named Davies Claims Solutions a Best Places to Work in Insurance by Business Insurance magazine. For more information, visit www.davies-group.com.

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