Meet Your 2023 Board

Matt Swallows, CIC, CRM is the president of the Swallows Agency in Livingston, Cookeville and Smithville, and serves as Vice President of Region II and President-elect . He earned a degree in Finance from Tennessee Tech University and started his insurance career with Aetna in 1999. In 2001 he started with Swallows Agency, and has since earned his CIC designation (2007) and his CRM designation (2010). In addition to his work with Insurors, Matt served as the Mayor of Cookeville from 2010-14, and has served on the Cookeville Regional Medical Center Board of Directors and the Cookeville/Putnam County Chamber. He is the current Chairman of the Putnam County YMCA. He is married to Kelly Swallows, who is the VP of Operations for the agency, and they have two children, Channing and Xavier.

Sain VP Region I

Bobby Sain is President of Bolivar Insurance & Real Estate and serves as Vice President of Region I. Bobby graduated from Bolivar Central High School and attended University of Mississippi. He later received an Associate Degree from Jackson State Community College. After JSCC, he went to work with his father at Bolivar Insurance & Real Estate. Bobby attended and completed several insurance educational classes including Hartford Insurance School for personal and commercial insurance, Hartford, CT. Bobby has always been active in his community where he enjoyed coaching baseball and supporting all Bolivar sports. In his spare time, he loves playing golf and music. He served as one of the youngest City Councilman in Bolivar at age 21 and in 2005 Bobby ran and was elected Mayor, City of Bolivar. In his term, the city received a grant which helped renovate and bring new businesses to downtown Bolivar. Bobby is presently Vice-Chair of Bolivar Downtown Development Corporation. He is also a board member at Western Mental Health Board of Trustees. Bobby and his wife DaJuan have 3 children, Blake, Chase and Shelby. They are members of First Baptist Church in Bolivar.

Battle Bagley, III, CIC, CPA is a principal agent of Bagley & Bagley, Inc in Fayetteville and has been working in the insurance business since 1987. Before that, he practiced accounting with the firm currently known as Puryear & Noonan, CPAs from 1982 to 1987. He earned his Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Middle Tennessee State University in 1982. Battle is married to Angela and together they have three children, Battle Bagley, IV, Samantha B. Jennings, and John Robert Bagley. He also has two granddaughters, Lilly Beth and Amelia.