Regional President, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.

Firestone has been in the insurance industry for more than 30 years. He joined Gallagher in 2001 when it acquired a multiline regional insurance brokerage at which Firestone was a principal. He oversees more than 600 retail property and casualty brokerage employees in the Illinois-based company’s Southwest region. Gallagher, a Fortune 500 insurance broker that provides insurance brokerage, risk-management and consulting services, announced a multiyear global partnership with the Special Olympics in 2020 to help scale Special Olympics sports around the world and was recognized by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation as a 2020 Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality.

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