Our Team

Lance Abbott is the CEO and Co-Founder of BevCap Management, LLC, a captive program manager established in 2008 and headquartered in McKinney, Texas. BevCap Management was originally formed to manage BevCap Captive Group and now manages multiple P&C and Medical Benefits captive programs. Lance has experience managing captives in Hawaii, North Carolina, Arizona, Vermont, Utah, Nevada and Grand Cayman.

Lance was elected to the Executive Committee for Captive Insurance Companies Association (CICA) and served a two-year term as Chairman from 2020-2022. He currently sits on the board of directors for BevCap Captive Group, Beyond Risk Holdings, HatterasRe, and The Lamar Improvement District.

Lance is a proud Texas Longhorn alum and enjoys spending time in the mountains of Colorado and fishing along the Texas coast with his family.

Lynn’s insurance career started at a commercial agency in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1991. Upon moving to Dallas in 1994, she started with Sammons & Ellis, Inc., where she was an account executive and commercial lines manager servicing large commercial accounts with an emphasis on commercial construction. In 2000, she moved to KMC Insurance Services, Inc., where she was vice president and manager of the commercial department. She also serviced a book of large commercial construction accounts, primarily scaffolding and crane risks. In 2005, she started work at a large brokerage firm in Dallas—Maclean Oddy & Associates—as a senior marketing associate. She was responsible for the marketing of new business with excess and surplus lines carriers. Lynn started with BevCap Management when the agency was started in 2008. She is responsible for the day-to-day servicing of BevCap Captive Group and other various accounts, and she also handles accounting and other office management duties.

Lynn graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science degree in advertising with a minor in marketing. Lynn also holds the Accredited Customer Service Representative designation. Lynn lives in Frisco with her husband, Kevin, and their son, Cale.

Alex Caffee joined BevCap Management July of 2023 as an Account Coordinator with 3 years’ experience in the healthcare industry. Alex began her career with Hunt Regional Healthcare in 2020 and served as a Scheduler. Alex was born and raised in Midland Texas, and currently lives in Rockwall Texas with her husband Cameron. Alex loves going to the movies, reading, and going golfing. She also enjoys getting to spend time with her friends and family.

Amanda joined BevCap Management in May of 2024 as a Commercial Account Manager. Amanda’s insurance career began in 2010 in Anchorage, Alaska at a local independent agency. She currently holds her General Lines Agent – Property & Casualty license. Amanda, her husband, and their 4 children moved to Abilene, Texas in 2014.  In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, reading, watching movies, gardening, and traveling.

Angela joined the BevCap team in January 2020 and is currently an Account Executive on the health care team. She has worked in the healthcare industry for over 5 years and has 5 years experience with the Social Security Administration. Angela holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska. She also holds a Texas General Lines-Life, Accident, Health and HMO license. Angela was born and raised in Nebraska, but has been calling Mckinney home for 20 years now. In her free time she enjoys spending time with her husband, children, and grandchild. She also enjoys spending time at the lake, loves to play golf, and travel. include playing sports and watching movies.

Ben Raun is an accomplished insurance professional with over 15 years of experience. Ben spends time with clients developing comprehensive risk management programs to help mitigate, transfer and finance risk more effectively. Serving as a risk advisor for his clients, he has worked with many different industries including transportation, technology and manufacturing. His insurance expertise includes captives, self-insured retentions, large deductible programs as well as traditional programs. Ben’s pursuit of further industry education has earned him the CPCU, ARM, AIS and AINS designations from The Institutes. Ben lives in MN with his wife Megan and their three children, Abigail, Mabel & Linus. He enjoys coaching basketball, fishing, hunting and spending time at the family cabin.

Blake joined BevCap Management in May 2022. He is a recent graduate of Butler University in Indiana with two degrees in Actuarial Science and Statistics, with a focus on Insurance. As a Program Analyst at BevCap Management, Blake supports the various Captives and Specialty programs we have under management for both Property & Casualty and Healthcare. Blake recently moved to Dallas. His favorite hobbies include playing sports and watching movies.

Connor joined BevCap Management in March 2022 as a Healthcare Benefits Underwriting Analyst.

Originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Connor attended Temple University's Fox School of Business Risk Management and Insurance Program. Most recently, Connor was an analyst for a consulting firm in South Florida where he worked on mid-large sized self-insured groups. Connor is passionate about cost containment and pricing transparency within healthcare.

Connor currently resides in Miami, Florida and is an avid Philadelphia sports fan - mainly Sixers and Eagles. Go Birds!

Courtney Cooper joined BevCap Management in July 2022 as Lead Underwriter, Medical Stop Loss Insurance Services. Courtney has over 16 years’ experience in the stop loss & captive industries. She also served as the team information resource for organ transplants in her previous role as a captive underwriter at QBE.

She resides in Indianapolis, IN with her husband and two cats named Vonnegut and Sasha.

Danny is the Vice President of Dealer Risk Services at BevCap Management, where he focuses on consulting Auto Dealerships on their overall risk management strategies and managing their group captive, Dealer Management Group. With over 13 years of experience in the insurance industry, Danny brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to his role.

Growing up in a small town in Central Illinois, just outside of Springfield, Danny developed a strong work ethic and a passion for community. He pursued his higher education at Eastern Illinois University, where he played football and earned a Business Marketing degree.

Danny began his insurance career at Federated Insurance’s training program in Minnesota, where he was trained on various types of business insurance, including Auto Dealerships. After a year of training, he moved to Tennessee to sell for Federated Insurance, specifically working with Auto Dealerships. His career path then took him back to Central Illinois, where he joined an independent agency as a middle market producer, continuing his focus on Auto Dealerships for three years.

Seeking new challenges, Danny moved to Scottsdale, AZ, with Nationwide Insurance as a Sales Manager, managing agency and broker relationships in Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming. He later relocated to Austin, TX, where he served as a Field Sales Manager for Nationwide Insurance, overseeing agency and broker relationships in Central Texas.

Embracing the innovative side of the industry, Danny joined an insurtech in Austin, helping to launch a Personal Auto MGA. He then gained experience with Berkley Aspire, a WR Berkley Company, as the Central Region Distribution Executive, in the direct-to-retail E&S space.

In June 2024, Danny joined BevCap Management as the Vice President of Dealer Risk Services, leveraging his extensive experience to provide top-tier risk management consulting to auto dealerships.

Currently residing in Austin, TX, Danny has called the city home for the past six years. Outside of his professional endeavors, he enjoys college football, spending time outdoors, hunting, fishing, music, concerts, and spending time with family and friends.

Dan Markovich joined the BevCap Management Stop Loss Insurance Services team in June, 2023 as AVP | Lead Underwriter. Dan has over 30 years of stop loss underwriting experience and has spent the past 10 years underwriting group captive programs for AIG, QBE, Crum & Forster and Zurich.

Dan resides in Brownsburg, Indiana (a suburb of Indianapolis). He is an avid Chicago Bears and Blackhawks fan. He and his wife enjoy travling to Portland, OR where their son and daughter live.

Holly joined BevCap Management in August 2020 as an account manager with over 25 years’ experience in the insurance industry, primarily focused on marketing and servicing commercial lines accounts for retail agencies and wholesale brokers alike. She graduated with a B.A. degree from Goucher College in 1993 and has been continuously licensed since 1996, currently holding a Property & Casualty General Lines Agent license, as well as a Managing General Agent License in Texas.

Holly has been active in industry associations, serving as various committee chairs and officers, including President of the Dallas Association of Insurance Professionals with over 100 members in 2000-2001. She has earned several insurance designations, including Accredited Customer Service Representative in 1996, Professional Insurance Woman of Texas in 1998, Associate in Risk Management in 1998, and Certified Insurance Counselor in 1999, which she has maintained for over 20 years.

Holly is a Dallas native and a proud mom to daughter, Kathryn.

Jeff joined BevCap Management in September 2019 as executive vice president. Jeff brings over 25 years of professional experience in employee benefits. Jeff’s extensive background in health insurance will further enhance BevCap Management’s capabilities.

Jeff joined the BevCap team from Holmes Murphy & Associates (HMA) in Dallas, Texas, where he spent the last two years advising clients with their employee benefits programs. Prior to his time with HMA, Jeff spent 22 years with Aetna in Dallas, Texas, as sales director.

Jeff serves as the treasurer for the Dallas Chapter of Worldwide Employee Benefits. He’s also active in St. Gabriel’s Catholic Church and Knights of Columbus. Jeff and his wife live in McKinney, Texas, and he is the proud father of three children.

Jeff joined BevCap Management in 2023 as Executive Vice President of BevCap's healthcare captives and BeyondRe Managing General Underwriting Company. Jeff is regarded as a subject matter expert in the self-insurance industry, representing at numerous industry conferences and virtual events, including SIIA, SPBA, HCAA, and many others. Jeff is a graduate of Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia (B.S. Accounting) and member of various industry trade associations. Jeff proudly served in the U.S. Air Force as a telecommunications systems specialist (Shaw AFB, SC & Zweibrucken AB, Germany) and was honorably discharged as an NCO in 1983. He and his wife Becky reside in the Charlotte, NC area and he is the proud father to six children.

Jill is a dedicated safety professional with over 13 years of experience in commercial risk and safety management across various industries, including manufacturing, retail, transportation, healthcare, and hospitality. Passionate about building relationships, analyzing data, and finding creative solutions, Jill excels in developing and implementing effective risk control strategies.

In her role as a Risk Control Consultant at Travelers Insurance Company, Jill was responsible for delivering comprehensive risk control services to national accounts. She conducted detailed analyses of losses, performed onsite risk assessments, ergonomic studies, and industrial hygiene monitoring to identify and mitigate potential hazards.

Prior to her time at Travelers, Jill served as a Corporate Safety Manager at 84 Lumber Company, where she oversaw safety programs at the retail locations, truss plants, and construction sites.

Jill holds a Bachelor of Science in Safety Management from Slippery Rock University.

After graduating from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Mays Business School in 2010, Katie quickly joined BevCap Management. Katie is the program manager for Independent Innovative Captive Insurance Company (IICIC), a homogenous group captive for independent tire dealers across the country. Katie also serves as a risk advisor for her clients across multiple industries like wholesale distribution, automotive service, gambling, farm and ranch, and oil and gas. Katie also serves as an advisor to the BevCap Captive Group’s Risk Committee. Katie currently holds both her general lines-life, accident, health and HMO, and property and casualty agent license.

Katie is a member of the Junior League of Dallas and previously served on the Young Alumni Advisory Council for the Texas A&M Association of Former Students.

Katlyn joined the BevCap team in January 2020. She grew up in Frisco, Texas and attended Liberty High School. She graduated from Texas Tech University with a Bachelors in Human Sciences. She brings 7 years of personal lines insurance and adjusting experience.

Katlyn resides in Van Alstyne and is a proud mother of two daughters, Ellie and Teagan. In her free time she enjoys wake surfing and time with family and friends.

Kayla Denison joined BevCap Management in May 2018 as a healthcare account executive with over six years of experience in the health insurance industry. Kayla began her career with the Gallagher Organization in 2012, where she served as an account manager. She currently holds her Texas general lines-life, accident, health and HMO agent license. Kayla was born and raised in Prosper, Texas, and currently lives in Nevada, Texas, with her husband, Danny, and their son, Wesley. She loves the outdoors and enjoys spending time with her family and friends.

Kody joined BevCap Management in February 2024 after spending the previous 5 years as a producer with Milliman, a global provider of actuarial and related services, where he consulted with broker partners to help employers analyze their healthcare financials, evaluate alternative funding arrangements, and bring a startup ICHRA (Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement) platform to market.

Kody currently lives in Omaha, Nebraska with his wife and young family. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with family, watching the Dallas Cowboys and Huskers (it’s been tough), going to the gym, or reading self-help/sales material. He is a big Zig Ziglar fan and hisfavorite quote is “You can have everything in life you want if you will just help other people get what they want”.

Kelley joined BevCap Management as an account executive in June of 2023. Kelley is bringing with her 30+ years’ experience in the health insurance industry on both the carrier and the broker side. Before joining BevCap Management, Kelley was on the broker side for 26 years. Prior to her time on the broker side, she spent 7 years with Aetna and 2 years at a local hospital in their insurance department.

Kelley received her Registered Employee Benefits Consultant (REBC) designation to elevate her creditability as a professional. The field of employee benefits continues to evolve with all the new government regulations, new coverages, and new techniques to control benefit cost.

Kelley is a member of the National Association of Benefits and Insurance Professionals (NABIP, previously known as NAHU). She has served several positions on the local board and the State of Oklahoma board. This year, Kelley was the President for the local board and will be the Chair for the Legislative Committee and will be Vice-President of the State of Oklahoma board. Kelley was nominated by her peers and received the Oklahoma City Association of Health Underwriters (OKAHU) Health Insurance Person of the Year Award in 2019 and the Oklahoma State Association of Health Underwriters (OSAHU) Health Underwriter of the Year award in 2022. The nominees are evaluated by their activities and service to NAHU’s local, state, regional and national efforts. Kelley was nominated by her peers for her dedication to the organization.

Kelley was born and raised in Oklahoma. She is the proud parent of three children, Aaron, Levi and Brittan. She enjoys reading, gardening, traveling and spending time with friends and family.

Lee Anne joined BevCap in August of 2017 and is the Senior Vice President of Benefits and Health Operations. Lee Anne oversees the operations of both health captives offered by BevCap Management in addition to administering the implementation of new, innovative cost saving opportunities that encourage employee utilization of their health benefits.

Lee Anne began her career at Mutual of Omaha in the claims processing center. She was then chosen to manage the implementation of their HMO in the DFW area. In 2000, she joined the Gallagher Organization and served as a senior account executive. As an account executive, Lee Anne is experienced in all aspects of employee benefits and consistently delivers a high level of service on which her clients rely. In addition to providing sound advice and guidance on daily issues, her responsibilities include vendor liaison, legislation and compliance, and assisting with project management. Lee Anne is responsible for marketing, preparation of proposals, implementation of new plans, and managing and coordinating the open enrollment process. Lee Anne currently holds her Texas general lines-life, accident, health and HMO agent license.

Lee Anne was raised in Prosper, Texas, and now resides in Gunter, Texas, with her husband, Kevin, and their teenage daughter, Karsyn. She also has two sons, Ryan and Justin. Lee Anne loves participating in Camp Gladiator Fitness and spending time with her family.

Leslie joined the BevCap team in March 2022. She brings 6 years of the health insurance industry as well as working in the medical field.

Leslie resides in Flower Mound, TX the same town that she was born and raised in. She is a proud mother of two sons, Taylor and Tripp, and one daughter Blakely . In her free time, she enjoys watching her boys play sports, girl time with her daughter and spending time with family and friends.

Leslie joined BevCap Management in 2011 after spending the majority of her career in advertising and marketing in account management/supervision, both on the client side and at regional and national ad agencies.

At BevCap, Leslie plans and manages all group meetings and events, from BevCap's annual Best Practice Worksop to the board and executive meetings for BevCap Captive Group, Sharefield and HatterasRe. Leslie is passionate about helping her clients and providing an exceptional level of service for them. She is the interal board liasion for BevCap Captive Group and works closely with the Captive Manager on board administration.

Leslie received her BBA in Marketing from Texas Christian University and resides in her hometown of McKinney with her husband Jeff. She's the proud mom of three daughters. Outside of work, Leslie loves spending time with her family and friends, cooking, watching college football, decorating, gardening and traveling.

Lindsey LeDuc joined BevCap Management in December 2021 as Vice-President, HatterasRe Operations. In her primary role, Lindsey oversees the client experience in the HatterasRe healthcare medical stop loss captive and program. Lindsey joins a growing team at BevCap where she will leverage her two decades of experience in healthcare self-funding in captives and related employee benefits. Prior to joining the BevCap Management team, Lindsey was a Specialty Health Practice Leader with responsibility for healthcare innovation, best practices and cost containment strategies. Lindsey has also held various client leadership roles with strategic oversight for a diverse clientele while maintaining the highest level of service standards.

On a personal note, Lindsey was born and raised in Arvada, Colorado, and she currently resides just outside of Denver with her husband, Jared. They enjoy taking walks and hikes and watching movies and cooking at home

Mandi Garcia joined BevCap in August 2023 as Commercial Lines Account Manager. Mandi has been in the insurance industry for over 19 years. She has a strong background in Commercial Marketing and Account Servicing from a large array of client base. Mandi currently holds her General Lines Agent – Property & Casualty and Life, Accident, Health & HMO licenses.

Mandi, her husband, Adam and their daughter, Abby are originally from South Texas and moved to Abilene, TX 11 years ago. Mandi is a huge animal lover and has 3 dogs and one cat. When Mandi is not working, she and her family love movie time, board & VR games, enjoying the outdoors and NFL – Especially the Cowboys!

Michelle joined BevCap Management as an account manager in June of 2012. Michelle’s insurance career began in 1996 at Sedgwick of Texas, Inc., in Dallas, servicing large commercial accounts. She has over 20 years of experience in commercial lines marketing and servicing.

Michelle holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and earned her Certified Insurance Counselor designation in 2002. She has served as corresponding secretary as well as chairperson for various committees of the Dallas Association of Insurance Professionals. Michelle lives in McKinney with her husband, Mike, and their son, Daniel.

With more than 15 years of experience in the industry, Misty joined BevCap Management in September 2016 as a personal lines account manager. While she was obtaining her degree at Texas A&M Commerce, Misty began her insurance career in 2001 after being recruited by a small-town independent agency in East Texas. At this agency, she focused primarily on producing and servicing personal lines and gentleman farmer accounts and went on to become office operations manager. When she relocated to the McKinney area in 2008, she was welcomed to Powter Insurance, where she began gaining knowledge of captive program infrastructure as well as servicing small commercial accounts. Eventually, Misty went on to take a position with Baldwin Cox Agency, LLC, where she took on the role of personal lines division manager and oversaw department operations, produced and managed a substantial book of business, and specialized in landlord property coverage for property investors.

Misty holds a degree in arts and sciences from Texas A&M Commerce and obtained a property and casualty insurance license in 2002. Misty also attended The National Alliance Producer School in 2014. Misty is a new resident to Leonard, Texas, with her husband, Steven; their daughter, Avery; and their fur baby, Honey.

Patti joined BevCap Management in October 2022 as an Administrative Assistant. She came to BevCap after working for many years at Creekwood United Methodist Church as Office Manager. Patti is the proud mother of one daughter, Mary, who is currently in graduate school at Texas Tech.

Paula joined BevCap Management in May 2023. Paula has 36 years of insurance experience on both the retail agency side and the wholesale broker side. Paul has worn many hats throughout her career - from Account Management to Marketing Manager, Account Executive and Associate Broker. Paula loves this business and enjoys learning everything about it. She currently holds her ACSR, CISR and CIC designations.

Paula was born and raised in EL Paso, Texas and moved to Dallas 30+ years ago. She currently lives in Plano and has two Children, Ashley and Zachary. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her two granddaughters, Harper-Ann (7) and Sloane (3).

Richelle began her career with Beyond Risk in August 2022 as a Senior Accountant primarily supporting BevCap Management’s stop loss insurance services team. She was promoted to Policy Admin Manager, Stop Loss Insurance Services in August 2023 where she supervises RFP set-ups, policy administration, premium accounting, and various financial reporting.

Richelle was born and raised in the Philippines and graduated with a BS from University of Florida in 2005. She currently lives in Jacksonville, FL with her husband Mike, and she is the proud parent of Kylie (16), Brooke (16), Layla (1) and her fur-baby Pepper. She enjoys cooking, reading, watching movies, traveling, and creating memories with her family.

Sharon has been in insurance for over 12 years and has most recently worked on a generalist/large construction book. She is originally from Louisiana and moved the DFW area in 2020. She now resides in Anna, TX.

She enjoys going to wineries, movies, the beach and watching her son play soccer for his academy team sting. Her and her husband, Walt, are about to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary, and her son, John-Paul, is 8 and will be going into 3rd grade.

Stacy has been in the insurance industry for over 25 years and has worked as both a commercial lines and personal lines account manager. In 2005, she began working with independent agents helping them to grow their business by providing marketing and training services as the internal operations manager for CoVerica Agency Alliance in Dallas, Texas. Stacy joined BevCap Management as an account manager in March of 2015.

Stacy earned her Certified Insurance Counselor designation in 2010, Certified Insurance Service Representative designation in 2006, and Accredited Customer Service designation in 2004.

Steve McFarland joined BevCap Management in May 2022 as Managing Principal, Medical Stop Loss Insurance Services. Steve has over 30 years of stop loss and captive insurance industry experience, including global medical programs in Europe and Latin America. Before joining BevCap, Steve served as Managing Director of MSL Captive Solutions and Vice President, Underwriting & Specialty Markets for QBE, a large medical stop loss captive insurer. Prior to recent positions Steve led AIG as a Regional Director of Underwriting and Vice President of Specialty Markets where he developed and led AIG’s stop loss captive business growing it from start-up to one of the industry’s largest captive blocks of business.

Steve and his wife reside in the Indianapolis area. They are both active cyclists and recently became first time grandparents.

Steven joined BevCap Management in October 2023 as Vice President of Business Development. Steven comes to BevCap Management from the private aviation business, where he spent his time selling, servicing, and retaining members. Steven plans to transfer this skillset to continue driving and retaining new business at BevCap Management.

A graduate of Vanderbilt University, where he also played baseball, Steven resides in Carmel, Indiana, with his wife Dana and two children.

Active members of Venture Christian Church. The Rice family enjoys outings to local parks, and when able to get away for a few hours Steven likes to play golf with friends.

Will Slocum joined BevCap Management as Executive Vice President, Healthcare Captives Division in November 2023. Before joining BevCap, Will worked on the retail broker and cost management solution sides of the industry, He has deep expertise in helping employers with self-funded and alternative-funded medical plans to actively manage claims spend. He also has extensive knowledge of the direct contract and reference-based pricing markets, gleaned from many years of working within that specific industry vertical. Will, his wife Pam, and two adult boys reside in Shreveport, Louisiana.