About Us
Our Story
The eSpecialty Insurance Marketplace was created to change Specialty Insurance. Our marketplace accesses leading insurance underwriters on your behalf through an efficient and transparent process. With proposals from multiple underwriters, you get a sense of the market and find comprehensive solutions for your challenging, unique, or complex insurance exposures. And our Specialty Insurance expertise helps you evaluate your coverage options, allowing you to balance coverage and cost.
Our vision is an efficient, technology-driven marketplace for Specialty Insurance. Our team is experienced in Specialty Insurance distribution and underwriting, operations, and technology. Specialty Insurance is the segment of the insurance industry that provides insurance coverage for challenging, unique, or complex exposures. Our founders have lived the challenges of applying market-changing technology to this complex market segment and have the passion to find a better way.
We will not change the market overnight, just over time. Working with like-minded underwriting partners, eSpecialty Insurance is changing our clients’ experience and coverage. We look forward to working with you.
What We Do
The eSpecialty Insurance Marketplace connects insureds and underwriters for those lines of insurance which cover challenging, unique, or complex exposures. We apply leading technology to the insurance placement process to increase options, efficiency, and transparency, and to reduce costs, for all organizations. And our expertise helps you evaluate your coverage options, allowing you to balance coverage and cost.
How It Works
Get in Touch
Get started today by providing us with some basic information, and we will put our expertise to work for you!
Competitive Quoting
Our marketplace combines specialty insurance expertise and competitive underwriters. You can expect multiple proposals from top insurers.
Expertise Delivered
We will help you evaluate your options, allowing you to balance coverage and cost.
Not sure which coverage(s) you need? We can help!
Our Process
The eSpecialty Insurance Marketplace is changing the delivery of Specialty Insurance. Our transparent process accesses leading insurance underwriters to provide comprehensive solutions for your challenging, unique, or complex insurance exposures. Our experience with Specialty Insurance markets and coverages is your edge in obtaining comprehensive coverage solutions, and our expertise helps you evaluate your options, allowing you to balance coverage and cost.
We have developed a marketplace process to provide multiple proposals from competitive insurers, along with expertise to help you evaluate your exposures and choose the best combination of comprehensive coverage and cost for your challenging, unique, or complex exposures.
Not all underwriting partners are as streamlined as we are, and there will be hybrid processes for certain coverages and industries, but we are moving Specialty Insurance into the modern age. Depending on the coverage and industry type, we have integrated automated quoting and binding from our insurance markets. For other situations, depending on our insurance markets, parts of the insurance placement process are automated and other parts are not.
Does Specialty Insurance mean more time to get covered? It depends. Effective placement of specialty insurance depends on experience, expertise, and access to specialized underwriters. The process is quick and easy for some coverages because we know what is needed and where to get it done, fast. Or our underwriting partners have developed integrations for instant underwriting. For other more complex risks, the process can take more time. In both cases, we can assess the need, provide a sense of timing, and access specialty underwriters on your behalf.
Our Team
Bob Sargent
President, CEO & Founder
Bob started eSpecialty Insurance to address friction in the Specialty Insurance distribution process. Bob has many years of experience helping clients address challenging, unique, or complex exposures. Bob is driving the integration of technology into the Specialty Insurance process to improve the customer experience, and results. Bob has founded, operated, and invested in innovative insurance organizations for many years. Bob spends his spare time he has supporting entrepreneurs and enjoying outdoor recreation in Utah with friends and family. Bob has degrees from Middlebury College (BA) and Tuck School of Business (MBA).
Kelsey Kelly
COO & Founder
Coming from a family with a long history in insurance, Kelsey understands the pace of change, the importance of client service, and the complexity of insurance. Kelsey has a background in startups and operations and is responsible for operations at eSpecialty Insurance. Prior experience includes running early-stage business initiatives at innovative companies, including Overstock, Bain Capital, and Morgan Stanley. Kelsey has degrees from Dartmouth College (BA) and Tuck School of Business (MBA) and spends her spare time outdoors with her family in the mountains of Utah.
Join Our Team
Do you value a fast-paced, flexible, entrepreneurial environment with a great team? Do you have a growth mindset, a positive personality, and thrive working in teams? Do you want to work with people and create innovative solutions?