Flood insurance firm grows 366%, hits $7M in sales

An opportunity to build a startup insurance firm into a national brand, shortly after leading a bank to a lucrative sale, is the just-right fit for this move-fast entrepreneur.

  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 9:38 a.m. May 8, 2020
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Cutline. Trevor Burgess invested $2 million in St. Pete-based Neptune Flood Insurance in 2018. Now he’s CEO of the firm, with $7 million in revenue in 2019.
Cutline. Trevor Burgess invested $2 million in St. Pete-based Neptune Flood Insurance in 2018. Now he’s CEO of the firm, with $7 million in revenue in 2019.
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In the summer of 2016, Trevor Burgess scored the entrepreneurial victory of a lifetime. Arkansas-based Bank OZK had acquired the bank Burgess had invested in and run for eight years, St. Petersburg-based C1, in a $402 million deal.

 

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