BrightServ is lead by a management team and executive advisory board whose members have varied and extensive experience in their respective fields. Their qualifications have helped numerous U.S. companies increase revenues and profits; while increasing client retention and satisfaction.
Howard Rogers Chief Executive Officer Howard is founder and chief executive officer of BrightServ and its parent company, BrightClaim. He oversees both companies’ operations, growth, and strategic direction.
His varied management experience comes from his 20 years in the property- and casualty-insurance industry. This includes serving as executive vice president of one of the largest independent claims management organizations in the United States. While there, Howard’s responsibilities included managing the Catastrophe Service Division, Technical Services Group, Subrogation Recovery, Cause and Origin Investigation Unit, and Class Action Inspection Unit.
Howard’s credentials include earning the Associate in Claims (AIC) designation by the Insurance Institute of America; and serving as former president of the Tennessee Claims Association. He is a 2000 graduate of the Advanced Executive Education Program of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Michael Frank Senior Vice President, Insurance Services
Michael Frank has 25 years of experience in the property and casualty insurance industry. He brings BrightServ an extensive working knowledge of catastrophe management, catastrophe response planning, claims forecasting, large-property loss review, and contents evaluation. He has even developed a successful property direct-repair program for a former employer.
Michael is former vice president of claims for Countrywide Insurance Group/Balboa Insurance Group, where he was responsible for all property claims units. He also worked a decade in various positions for USAA, based in San Antonio, Texas.
Michael’s credentials include earning his MBA; the Associate in Claims (AIC) and the Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designations by the Insurance Institute of America; and Senior Claims Law Associate by the American Educational Institute. He has served as former president, vice president, and secretary/treasurer of the Central Texas Claims Association.
Lee Blaylock Lee brings 17 years of experience in lead management and installation services to BrightServ’s advisory panel. From 1988 to 1995, he held several management positions for Dell Computer. This included sales, product marketing, advertising, direct marketing, product development, and research and development. He spent two years in Germany running Dell’s central European marketing.
After Dell, Lee returned home to Dallas, Texas and served as the business unit manager for Dallas Semiconductor’s iButton division, where he guided revenues from $11 million to $30 million. Lee later worked for Oracle Corporation, where he left as a Practice Director in the Industrial Manufacturing Consulting division. In 1999, he left Oracle where he went on to start Fundu Technologies, an IT staffing firm and Pagosa Technologies, dba ServiceLane, the predecessor to BrightServ that was sold to BrightClaim in 2005. In addition to his role at Fundu and BrightServ, Lee is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Annandale Capital, LLC, an open-architecture investment management business serving both institutional and private clients.
Grover Davis
Grover is vice chairman and chief executive officer of Project Time & Cost, which specializes in total cost management, scheduling solutions, and forensic engineering and consulting. His responsibilities include developing the Atlanta company’s primary goals and objectives.
Grover brings the board 30 years of experience, most of which has been in the claims management solutions industry. He spent 28 years with Crawford & Company, where he last served as chairman and CEO. As chairman and CEO, he was accountable for Crawford’s worldwide operations and class action settlement funds.
Grover is a 1999 graduate of the Advanced Executive Education Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He served on the board of trustees for the American Institute of Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriters until 2003; is a member of the National Association of Insurance Professionals; and recently served on the Sponsorship Donations Committee for the expansion of The High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
Reid Funderburk
Reid is special advisor to the chairman and CEO of BGI Inc., a national leader in electronic sweepstakes game development, publicly traded as bgii. In this position, he coordinates new product and market development.
Reid retired in 2001 as chairman and CEO of BGI Inc., a company he took public in 1994. He has extensive experience developing real estate projects that includes bingo centers, office warehouses, subdivisions, carwashes, and convenience stores. In the early 1980s, Reid started Teletronics, which developed support products and services for the telecom industry. Before that, he started Financial Systems, Inc., a company that specialized in sales, service, and maintenance of bank teller terminals, check proof machines, and check processing equipment. Financial Systems became a division of Banc National Corp., where Reid was CEO and president until 1984.
Reid was president of the Texas Bingo Lessors Association from 1989 to 1999; and is former lead Bingo industry lobbyist to the Texas legislature.
