New title agency network recruits COO

TAMPA -- Mike LaRosa has joined Florida Agency Network as the independent title agency network's new chief operating officer.

“Having the caliber of person and operator like Mike LaRosa join us was never something we could have imagined years ago,” says Aaron Davis, CEO of Florida Agency Network, in a release. “Mike brings 16 years of industry experience, and the operational expertise of running of the largest title insurance underwriters to the Florida Agency Network.”

LaRosa has been with First American Title since 1999, starting as an associate counsel in Tallahassee, and moving to Tampa a year later as a vice president and counsel. There, according to a release, he spent six years in the company's partnership division, establishing affiliated business arrangement title agencies with mortgage, builder/developer, and real estate professionals in the region.