Angela Ripley
INSURCON by BIGiOK Presentation Topic: “Big I National Resources” - IIABA Incoming Chairman
Angela Ripley (CIC, CRM, AIS, LUTCF), Big “I” Chair-Elect, VW Brown Insurance Service (Columbia, Maryland) is president of VW Brown Insurance Service in Columbia, Maryland. She began serving as Big “I” chair-elect in the fall of 2024 and will be installed as chair at the Big “I” Fall Leadership Conference in 2025.
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Bringing more than 25 years of experience as an independent insurance agent, Ripley has held numerous positions at the national level for the Big “I,” including Big “I” Government Affairs Committee chair and Board of Directors member. She has also served as Maryland state InsurPac chair from 2011-2020 and was chair of Big I Maryland in 2014.
She has served on several agency advisory boards and was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the National Association of Registered Agents & Brokers (NARAB) Board. Additionally, she served a three-year term on the Federal Reserve Board’s Insurance Policy Advisory Committee (IPAC), the 21-member committee to provide information, advice and recommendations to the Federal Reserve Board on domestic and international insurance issues. Ripley is also vice chair of the Insurance Roundtable of Baltimore.
Ripley joined VW Brown in 2000 after working with Erie Insurance Group. She received her Bachelor of Science in business administration with a concentration in marketing and advertising from Frostburg State University. She resides in Maryland with her husband Graydon and their two daughters.
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