Ryan Towle, President of Davis & Towle Insurance Group, Will Receive the Library’s 2026 Insurance Professional of the Year Award at a Luncheon Gala on Friday, September 25, at the InterContinental Boston
Ryan Towle is President of Davis & Towle Insurance Group, a leading insurance agency based in Concord, New Hampshire. The agency was founded in 1954 by Ryan’s grandfather Wendell Towle and has grown under both his father Jeffrey Towle’s leadership and now Ryan’s. Over the last ten years, Ryan has been active in mergers and acquisitions and today there are fourteen Davis & Towle affiliated agencies located across New Hampshire serving property and casualty insurance through twelve separately branded agencies rooted in their communities.
“We are thrilled to see Ryan recognized with this honor. Under his leadership, Davis & Towle and our affiliated agencies continue to thrive. Ryan is a strategic, thoughtful leader and an even better person. This recognition is well deserved, and all of us at Davis & Towle are proud to celebrate this achievement alongside him.”
Christopher Nicolopoulos
CEO, Davis & Towle Insurance Group
In 2011, under Ryan’s leadership, Davis & Towle became a founding partner along with three other peer agencies in New Hampshire of Northern United Agency Alliance, which provides aggregation, products, and agency support to numerous independent agencies across New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, and Massachusetts. Ryan has served as managing partner of the alliance since its inception.
Over the last 25 years Ryan has executed a growth strategy that has included recruiting talented employees, providing internal opportunities for high performers and hiring and developing new insurance professionals from outside the industry. Companywide, Davis & Towle employs more than150 people. Ryan initiated an internship program at the agency with many successful participants now working in the agency or elsewhere within the industry. Ryan also expanded and deepened insurance company relationships at the agency to include serving in numerous local, regional and national company councils and agent boards.
Ryan, who holds the Certified Insurance Counselor designation, has been active in the Big I of New Hampshire, serving as Young Agents Committee Chair, Legislative Committee member, Chairman of the Board, and Chair of the Executive Search Committee.
A native of New Hampshire, Ryan still resides in his hometown of Henniker with his wife Beth and their three children. He is a graduate of New England College with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and he has served as a member of the college’s President’s Advisory Committee.
Ryan has been active in many local youth sport leagues and town committees, and served as Treasurer of White Birch Center, which is a local nonprofit organization providing programming for both youths and seniors.
HISTORY OF THE IPYA
The Insurance Professional of the Year Award was first made possible by the establishment in 2001 of the Richard B. Simches Fund. Mr. Simches, who founded Safety Insurance Company, believed that it was important to recognize outstanding individuals in the insurance industry. The award was created by the Library’s Board of Trustees in the tradition of an award bestowed annually from the 1950s through 1996 by the Boston Board of Fire Underwriters.
Since 2002, when the Library first presented this award, members of a broad cross section of the insurance, financial security, risk management, and legal communities have gathered to recognize an individual who demonstrates outstanding leadership and exemplifies qualities that foster commitment to, understanding of, and respect for the insurance industry.
SEPTEMBER 25 AWARD GALA
This year’s award gala will be an opportunity to celebrate Ryan Towle and all he has done for the insurance industry and his community, as well as an opportunity for those attending to connect with colleagues from across New England and beyond.
Details about purchasing sponsorships or tickets, or donating items for the silent auction, will be available in mid-July in the invitation to be mailed by the Library and here on the Library’s website, at which time the purchase of sponsorships or tickets online or by email will begin.
Those seeking additional information, or wishing to donate items for the silent auction, may contact Sarah Hart, the Library’s Event Coordinator, at events@insurancelibrary.org.
Click Here for a Brief History of the Insurance Professional of the Year Award
