Hylant Appoints Mike Nixon To Lead Southeast Michigan Employee Benefits Operation

TOLEDO, Ohio, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hylant, one of the nation's largest privately owned insurance brokerage firms, announced today that Mike Nixon, senior vice president, will lead Hylant's Southeast Michigan Employee Benefits operation and will also join the company's Employee Benefits Executive Committee. Lisa Hawker, executive vice president of Hylant, made the announcement.

In Mike's new role, he is responsible for further integrating the former AGIS Birmingham, Mich., office with the existing Hylant Southeast Michigan operation. He is based in Hylant's Detroit, Mich., office. As a member of the Employee Benefits Executive Committee, he will continue cultivating alignment and setting the strategic direction for all of Hylant's growing employee benefits operations along with the other members of the committee.

"Mike is a results-driven leader with an intimate knowledge of the ever-changing employee benefits landscape," said Hawker. "The addition of his insights, expertise and experience to the Employee Benefits Executive Committee and to our Southeast Michigan operation will help us to continue to evolve both our product offerings and client experience."

Prior to joining Hylant, Nixon was the President of AGIS's Michigan operations and has coordinated regional expansion initiatives for more than 10 years, including those in Indianapolis, Tampa and Jacksonville, Fla. He is a published author and frequent public speaker who serves on the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Statewide Advisory Board and the Guardian Life Insurance Company National Broker Council.

About Hylant
Hylant, a four consecutive year winner of Best Places to Work in Insurance (2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012), was founded in 1935 and is a full-service insurance brokerage with 14 offices in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, and Florida.  As a member of the Worldwide Broker Network, Hylant offers complete risk management services, employee benefits consultation, loss control, healthcare management and insurance solutions for businesses and individuals.  Hylant is one of the largest privately held brokerage firms in the United States and serves a wide variety of clients locally, nationally, and internationally.  For more information, please contact Tammy Cameron at [email protected] or visit hylant.com.

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