Sam Villano
Executive, Educator, and Entrepreneur
Sometimes, you have to think inside the box. 🍩
[email protected] | (630) 715-8403
Sam Villano is a serial entrepreneur driving success in the financial services marketing and insurance industry.
As Director of Sales and Marketing at Imagine Marketing: A Len Perroots Company, he leads a team of 30 licensed agents, working closely with the CEO to achieve outstanding results. With his expertise as Director of New Business and Operations at Business Financial Solutions, Sam gained a total understanding of agency marketing, spearheading a technology team, training and motivating agents, and helping clients to retire truly tax-free.
Sam's training content and technology solutions played a pivotal role in Business Financial Solutions's impressive growth, propelling sales from the first dollar earned to over $1,000,000 in the second year while ensuring compliance within a highly regulated industry.
In 2020, he founded Sure Solutions, a dynamic firm providing technology and management consulting services to insurance marketers.
In 2016, he founded his first business from his dorm room, Sure Music Services, disrupting the music preparation industry for film and television, showcasing his ability to innovate and navigate new frontiers.
Sam Villano's extensive insurance background equips him to tackle diverse challenges and solve complex problems with ingenuity and remarkable efficiency.
References are available upon request.
[email protected] | (630) 715-8403
My résumé
Director of Sales and Marketing, Imagine Insurance Group, 2023-Present
- Work directly with the CEO to launch a new insurance marketing agency with direct contacts to several top product providers
- Coach a team of 30 agents
Director of New Business and Operations, Business Financial Solutions Agency, 2021-2023
- Built an electronic Financial Needs Analysis and algorithm
- Grew sales from $400k in year one to over $1M in year two
- Possessed a deep understanding of insurance productsand led product design team
- Communicated daily with the CEOand other senior leadership
- Coached a team of 20 direct reports
- Built KPI reporting system
- Developed website including a custom CRM
- Created company handbook, policies and system guidelines
- Created and maintained licensing database and ensured compliance with regulators
- Created training content including guide to the sales system and onboarded new hires
Licenses
Life insurance licensed in FL, MD, MI, NV, TN, TX and VA