founded valencia place at country club plaza kansas city missouri u.s. 1966 1966 founder jack lockton headquarters kansas city mo u.s. number of locations 64 locations in 17 countries key people david m. lockton chairman john lumelleau president and ceo mike hammond international chairman glenn spencer chief operating officer henry bond chief financial officer products insurance risk management and employee benefits revenue 2014 global revenue 1 126 000 000 number of employees 5 300 website www.lockton.com lockton companies inc. is the world s largest privately held insurance brokerage firm providing insurance risk management and employee benefits solutions . in addition to its kansas city missouri headquarters lockton operates 64 locations in 17 countries . lockton currently employs more than 5 300 associates worldwide . the company was founded by jack lockton in 1966 and has since become the world s 10th largest insurance brokerage firm . 1 lockton serves a wide array of industries with services that include risk management casualty surety professional indemnity and more . for 46 years lockton posted extraordinary organic growth with global revenues reaching more than 1 billion in fiscal 2013 . contents 1 entities 2 history 3 community involvement 4 awards 5 references 6 external links entities edit lockton benefits group lockton s employee benefit s team works closely with insurance carriers and administrators to create comprehensive and integrated benefits strategies for clients . the lockton benefits group provides services including compliance executive benefits health and welfare health risk solutions retirement and more . lockton affinity lockton affinity an affiliate of lockton companies meets the insurance needs of affinity groups franchises professional organizations and associations of all sizes . lockton affinity offers a variety of insurance product options and programs . products include general liability professional liability property workers compensation directors & officers liability commercial auto specialty coverage excess health plans and more . 2 lockton global is a partnership of brokers who provide risk management and employee benefits consulting to multi national companies . 3 history edit in 1966 jack lockton 1942 2004 founded lockton insurance . he had just graduated from the university of missouri kansas city in 1964 with a degree in economics . prior to founding lockton insurance jack lockton worked as an underwriter for a surety bonding company where he specialized in serving contractors . lockton company started when jack partnered with his parents to share office expenses and have the money to hire office help . he was able to persuade big name people in the industry to leave their established jobs to come work with him including gary hambright who had worked with jack at his previous job . in 1976 jack s brother david m. lockton joined the company as lockton s ninth employee . david later served as president then ceo . since 2003 david has served as the company s chairman . lockton began expanding their business across the country after establishing an office in denver in 1979 and gaining success . they focused on finding a great business leader in the area recruiting them to start an office and taking off from there . this is still their model today . 4 in 2006 lockton expanded globally with the acquisition of alexander forbes international risk services making it the world s largest privately owned broker . 5 community involvement edit lockton is known for being exceptionally involved in their community . they have taken part in numerous fundraisers and service project for more than 30 different organizations . lockton has contributed to various charities organizations and projects including 6 united way of america habitat for humanity american cancer society goodwill industries march of dimes children s bureau insurance industry charitable foundation ronald mcdonald house the children s place mda solace house sunshine kids the salvation army the ymca special olympics younglife toys for tots susan g. komen for the cure phoenix house american diabetes association the humane society junior achievement leukemia and lymphoma society harvesters cystic fibrosis foundation boys and girls club awards edit 2014 earned sixth consecutive best places to work in insurance honor 7 lockton mexico earned the socially responsible company award from mexico s philanthropy center and the alliance for corporate social responsibility . 8 lockton mexico named a great place to work for the fourth year in a row by the great place to work institute . 8 lockton companies earned a spot in ubm tech s informationweek elite 100 its annual ranking of the most innovative u.s. based users of business technology . 9 lockton denver recognized as having the best campaign event by mile high united way . 10 lockton companies named one of top 100 healthiest workplaces . 11 2013 awarded with innovation award from vmware inc. 12 received impact award from the kansas city business journal for its enterprise analytics initiative . 13 lockton thailand received the prime minister s insurance award for outstanding non life insurance broker . 14 earned one of the best places to work in insurance spots for the fifth year in a row . 15 lockton st. louis earned a spot on the top 50 workplaces list made by the st. louis post dispatch . 16 lockton dallas received best places to work in north texas from the dallas business journal . 17 lockton mexico awarded the value based health award by the institute for health and productivity management . 18 lockton denver earned partner in philanthropy award for community service from the denver business journal . 19 lockton kansas city earned spot as one of the top 5 insurance agencies by the kansas city business journal . references edit this article includes a list of references but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations . please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations . january 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message top insurance brokers lockton cos. l.l.c. . lockton affinity . lockton global . lockton a lot of things we just made up as we went along . lockton to acquire forbes international creating biggest private broker . retrieved 9 december 2013 . making a difference . lockton earns sixth consecutive best places honor . a b lockton recognized as socially responsible corporate citizen and great place to work . top 6 digital innovators in p & c . lockton denver recognized for community service . lockton companies named 2014 healthiest workplace . choice hotels international lockton companies and metro health hospital recognized by vmware . impact awards lockton cos. inc. . lockton thailand receives outstanding broker award . best places to work in insurance 2013 lockton cos. l.l.c. . lockton st. louis named top workplace . 2013 dallas business journal best places to work lockton cos. llc . lockton mexico recognized for its culture of health . dbj names partners in philanthropy 2013 . external links edit lockton official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title lockton companies & oldid 712914424 categories companies based in kansas city missouriinsurance companies of the united statesprivately held companies based in missourihidden categories articles lacking in text citations from january 2009all articles lacking in text citations navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a 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