Business Brief

ANE (Agency Network Exchange LLC), Monmouth Junction, has added Neal Stanley as the first independent member of the ANE Board of Directors and has elected Raymond Pavese as chairman of the board.

Stanley has more than 30 years of experience in the management and direction of insurance companies and agencies. He recently retired as chief operating officer for United Valley Insurance Services, Inc., an agency cluster in California. He joined United Valley in 2002 as executive vice president to manage its Retail Agency and to lead the Agency Acquisition Program.

Stanley has served on the Board of Directors of various industry organizations and is an active member of the State Bar of California.

A founder of ANE, Pavese began his career at the Prudential Life Insurance Company after graduating from Roger Williams University in 1986. Within a year, he joined his father at the Pavese-McCormick Insurance Agency in New Jersey, where he expanded the agency footprint from Middlesex County to thousands of clients throughout the state. He bought the agency with Michael McCormick from their fathers, and today it is one of the largest in central New Jersey with clients across the Mid-Atlantic region.

He is a past president of the Middlesex County Independent Insurance Agents, Exchange Club of New Brunswick, the Brunswick Bank and Trust Advisory Board, and the Executive’s Association of New Jersey, one of the oldest and most prestigious networking organizations in the state.

For more information, visit ane-agents.com.