Team up: Outsourcing, insurance pros join forces

Outsourcing veteran Daneen Gurney has been lured out of retirement by the chance to launch her own professional employer organization with Ryan Clegg, owner and operator of Clearwater-based Clegg Insurance.

For much of her career, Gurney worked for Oasis Outsourcing, which at one point was the nation’s largest privately held PEO, which is essentially human resource outsourcing. She started out as a sales rep and eventually became vice president of strategic partnerships before the West Palm Beach-based company was sold to Paychex last year for $1.3 billion.