22nd percentile
Serial founder and CEO building a captive self-insurance firm for SMBs
Credibility
Operator · 34th percentile
- Current founder and CEO of Utopia Risk and Insurance Solutions, founded in 2023.
- Past founder of Glass Insurance Agency, which he owned from 2017 to 2024.
Relationship Matrix
Most Complimentary
Founder score
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Current founder and CEO of Utopia Risk and Insurance Solutions, founded in 2023.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Past founder of Glass Insurance Agency, which he owned from 2017 to 2024.
- 0%Probability of being accurate (0%)Co-founded a hardware and software product (Fiber Optic Lights for Jeep) with a family member, launched January 2025.
What you likely need
You're building Utopia Risk and Insurance Solutions as a self-insurance and captive strategy firm in Sacramento, with a background spanning agency ownership and consulting. Events that connect you with other insurance-adjacent founders, small business operators, and commercial real estate investors would accelerate your client pipeline and positioning. Roundtables focused on alternative risk financing (831(b) captives, self-insurance structures) and founder-to-founder deal flow would be especially high-value for where you are right now.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA founder roundtable with other insurance-tech and insurtech entrepreneurs in the Western US to share distribution strategies and client acquisition playbooks.
- positioningA dinner with commercial real estate investors and operators in Sacramento to position Utopia Risk as the go-to self-insurance strategist for REI portfolios.
- tacticalA tactical workshop on 831(b) micro-captive and self-insurance structures with CPAs, wealth advisors, and business owners who are your ideal referral partners.
- introsA networking happy hour with construction and manufacturing business owners in the Greater Sacramento area who are underserved by traditional commercial insurance.
- introsAn early-stage founder dinner for solo-founder CEOs running sub-10-person companies to share operational challenges and swap warm intros to service providers.
- positioningA positioning workshop for founders in professional services (insurance, consulting, finance) on how to build a content-led brand that converts LinkedIn followers into clients.
- tacticalA meetup for hardware-plus-software product co-founders to share lessons on manufacturing, distribution, and early customer acquisition for physical products.