{"id":10592,"date":"2022-07-11T13:41:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T17:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/uncategorized\/christopher-watkins-discusses-career-toweriq-acquisition-in-insurance-business\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T16:38:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T21:38:49","slug":"christopher-watkins-discusses-career-toweriq-acquisition-in-insurance-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/news\/christopher-watkins-discusses-career-toweriq-acquisition-in-insurance-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Watkins Discusses Career, towerIQ Acquisition in Insurance Business"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Christopher Watkins, EVP, Chief Information Officer, talked about his early career, technology and ReSource Pro, and the company\u2019s acquisition of insurtech towerIQ.<\/p>\r\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\r\n<p>In a recent feature by Mark Hollmer, Christopher Watkins, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at ReSource Pro, shared his insights on the intersection of technology and business, reflecting on his journey from a young IT prodigy to a key leader at the New York-based company. Watkins emphasized ReSource Pro\u2019s focus on enhancing client-facing technology and highlighted their recent acquisition of towerIQ, an insurtech designed to streamline workflows and improve data capture for complex commercial accounts. Watkins noted this acquisition as a crucial step in accelerating the company\u2019s mission of integrating digital capabilities across its global operations.<\/p>\r\n<p>With over 6,000 employees and a client base of more than 1,000 carriers, brokers, and MGAs, ReSource Pro continues to prioritize technology-driven solutions, including robotic process automation and policy tracking services. Watkins\u2019 leadership marks a forward-looking strategy, as the company grows both organically and through strategic acquisitions like towerIQ, aimed at boosting productivity and optimizing data for clients.<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><em>This is a summary of an article originally published by Insurance Business Magazine.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p id=\"h-read-the-full-article\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancebusinessmag.com\/us\/news\/technology\/resource-pro-exec-marvels-at-intersection-of-technology-and-business-412490.aspx#:~:text=ReSource&amp;text=ReSource&amp;text=ReSource&amp;text=ReSource&amp;text=ReSource\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Watkins, EVP, Chief Information Officer, talked about his early career, technology and ReSource Pro, and the company\u2019s acquisition of insurtech towerIQ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"news-category":[41],"insurance-segment":[27,28,29],"services":[31],"type-of-content":[40],"resource-type":[226],"class_list":["post-10592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","news-category-acquisitions","insurance-segment-carrier","insurance-segment-mga-wholesale","insurance-segment-retail","services-technology","type-of-content-news","resource-type-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 15:16:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10592"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18781,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592\/revisions\/18781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10592"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=10592"},{"taxonomy":"insurance-segment","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insurance-segment?post=10592"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=10592"},{"taxonomy":"type-of-content","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type-of-content?post=10592"},{"taxonomy":"resource-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-type?post=10592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}