Acquiring an Agency

Communication is the name of the game in the challenging coastal insurance market—and Kelley Carter, a communication and business major, has applied that wholeheartedly.

Gonyo has worked every role in an independent agency—from working the front desk to producing—before starting her own agency at 32 years old with “minimal money in a tiny little office,” she says. Today, Blue Line Insurance has four branches and 15 employees, 14 of whom are women.