Guy is a vice president and account executive in our Surety Department, responsible for the overall surety needs of his clients.
Guy specializes in surety bonds for Alaska Native Corporations along with general and specialty contractors, and his clients are active throughout the United States. In addition to maximizing his clients’ available bond credit, Guy’s tenure in the construction industry makes him a valuable resource for a range of business issues that his clients face, including market and project risk analysis and mitigation, contract negotiation, and internal business issues like perpetuation, estimating, and cost account systems. His prior experience as a bond manager at a leading surety company makes Guy a strong, adept client advocate in negotiations with underwriters. His current surety clients include companies with annual revenues ranging from $25 million to over $5 billion.
Guy began his surety career with Safeco in 2001 as a contract surety underwriter. He held several positions of increasing responsibility, culminating as bond manager. In that position, he managed contractors with nationwide operations headquartered in Alaska, Washington, and Hawaii. Guy received his B.A. from the University of Washington’s Michael G. Foster School of Business.
Guy is an active member of the National Association of Surety Bond Producers (NASBP), having served six years on the board of directors. He is an instructor within Parker, Smith & Feek’s University Series, and is a frequent guest speaker within the construction and surety industries.
Jana is responsible for building client loyalty and providing friendly, timely, and accurate service to all surety clients and company representatives by working with our account executives. She receives, submits, prepares, and executes all bid bonds, performance and payment bonds, license and permit bonds, indemnity agreements, and bond applications. She facilitates the underwriting process and communication between the surety company and the client by seeking underwriter approval on bonds where lines of authority are not in place or bond needs are outside of authority granted.
Jana demonstrates a knowledgeable record of working in the construction and surety industry; she possesses a strong leadership ethic and reliable knowledge of construction processes and surety products. She is skilled in contract management, business process improvement, customer service, and strategy.
Jana joined Parker, Smith & Feek in 2009 and has successfully completed the Level 1 and Level 2 National Association of Surety Bond Producers (NASBP) William J. Angell Surety Schools. Prior to that, she worked for a local homebuilder for ten years in their land development department and managed the retirement of financial obligations, such as surety bonds, cash deposits, and credits/latecomer agreements, as they related to the development and purchased lots for a master-planned community and associated off-site road improvements. She also managed the design, construction, and closeout of a $700k neighborhood park and managed, coordinated, organized, and monitored all activities required to implement a companywide sensitive area mitigation compliance program.
Jana is an active volunteer at her children’s elementary school. She has lived in Washington her whole life; she enjoys hiking, cooking, road trips, and her family’s annual elk hunting/camping trip.
