Matt Modleski
Stovall Grainger, Modleski, Inc.

Matt Modleski knows what high performance is; he flew as a Demonstration Pilot on the United States Air Force Thunderbirds.  Matt enlisted in the Air Force at the age of 17 with dreams of one day flying fighters.  He began his career as a jet engine mechanic and then served as an air traffic controller before attending flight training.  Let his tumultuous 15 year journey to the Thunderbirds inspire and motivate your team to dream big, select a strategy, and then commit to achieving those dreams.

Matt retired from the Air Force in September, 2000 and began speaking to help others use the following formula to achieve high performance both personally and professionally: Strategy + Inspiration/Motivation + Leadership = High Performance

Van Mueller, LUTCF, is a Registered Representative with The Wisconsin Agency of New England Financial Services.  January 23, 2008, marks Van’s 35th year as an insurance agent.  He is an active member of MDRT having qualified for Court of the Table in 1990 and Top of the Table for the last seventeen years. 

Van has served as an LUTC moderator in the past and is looking forward to doing so again.  He also served as President of the Milwaukee Association of Insurance & Financial Advisors for the 1998-99 year.  In the past, Van has served as Membership Chairman for both Milwaukee and the State of Wisconsin.  Van also served on the Annuity Advisory Panel, the Middle Income Task Force, the Sales Idea Committee, and the Program Development Committee for MDRT.  Van is currently serving his second 2-year term on the Top of the Table board. 

Van was awarded the Milwaukee NAIFA Distinguished Service Award for 2003.  He has also qualified for the National Sales Achievement Award, the National Quality Award, the Health Insurance Quality Award, and has qualified many times for the National Association of Health Underwriters Leading Producers Round Table.

Van supports many industry organizations.  In addition to membership in the National Association of Insurance & Financial Advisors and Million Dollar Round Table, he is a member of the Association of Health Insurance Agents.  He is also a member of the Society of Financial Service Professionals, an Emissary Contributor to IFAPAC and a diamond Knight of the Million Dollar Round Table Foundation.

Van has spoken to groups all over the country as well as all over the world, including being a main-platform speaker at MDRT in 1998 in Chicago and the Main Platform Speaker at the 2001 Top of the Table Meeting in Maui, HI.  Van was a Main Platform Speaker at the 2003 NAIFA meeting in Kansas City and the 2005 NAIFA meeting in Baltimore.  He was a speaker at MDRT and at the NAIFA Convention for 2006, and again in 2007.  He will be a main platform speaker for the MDRT Experience in Tokyo, Japan in April of 2008.  He has also written many articles for various publications. Van believes that the next decade will be “ The Greatest Time Ever ” for Insurance and Financial Service Professionals!!!