Late last week, Acrisure, which combines people and high tech to deliver an array of products including insurance, reinsurance and  cyberservices, announced the formation of the Acrisure Protection Group.

The group is designed to be a full-service finance and insurance (F&I) and property and casualty (P&C) brokerage, training, compliance and consulting specialist, and producer of anti-theft hardware, dedicated to the shifting needs of U.S.-based auto dealers.

The partners forming Acrisure Protection Group and looking to serve a national network of approximately 3,000 active dealers across 50 states include:

—SWDS Holdings (Irvine, Calif.) – F&I

—Dealer Protection Group (Irvine, Calif.) – P&C

—F&I Solutions Group (Benton, Ky. / Milwaukee) – F&I

—IPS Agency (Georgetown, Ky.) – F&I

—RAM (Wayland, Mass.) – F&I

—Team Northland (Eau Claire, Wisc.) – F&I

In May, Acrisure announced it will begin to unify the company under a single brand that offers multiple financial products and services to millions of businesses and individual clients.

Further, the company will organize by geographic region and operating platforms led by existing Acrisure Partners. Officials said Acrisure Protection Group is the first example of a platform to form in this model.

It is led by Vernon Leake, who previously ran SWDS Holdings, an Acrisure artner based in Irvine, Calif. Prior to joining SWDS, Leake was CEO and co-founder of Century Automotive Service Corp., a MAPFRE company.

SWDS is among the agencies rebranding to Acrisure Protection Group.

“Our goal is to provide services and solutions that our clients want and need. Forming platforms under the Acrisure flag is a significant part of our future as it means we will be better organized to meet those needs,” Acrisure co-founder, chairman and CEO Greg Williams said in a news release. “Under Vernon’s leadership, Acrisure Protection Group will bring our clients deep, nationwide expertise in the automotive industry.”

Leake added, “With driven-focus for product innovation, compliance expertise and results-driven training, we are laser-focused on the customer and better aligned to meet their needs.

“We’re excited to embrace the Acrisure brand and together, as Acrisure Protection Group, redefine how our dealer clients measure success and grow their bottom line,” he went on to say.

 To learn more about Acrisure Protection Group, visit https://www.acrisurepg.com/.