Paul Hughes has been working with the Professional Employer Organization (“PEO”) industry since 1995 and data management since 2005. He is responsible for the day-to-day operations of both Libertate Insurance Services, LLC and RiskMD, which reports into the overall Ballator Insurance Group family of companies. Having started with Liberty Mutual in 1992, Mr. Hughes went on to become the Regional Sales Manager for ManagedComp out of Boston and started the firm Risk Transfer in the year 2000. Since 2000, he has become the controlling agent on six different workers’ compensation insurance programs for the PEO industry and has underwritten and bound close to $2 billion in premiums.
He is a huge advocate for the PEO industry, having been a founding member of both NAPEO’s Workers’ Compensation Certification Board as well as Cyber Board. Mr. Hughes has advocated on behalf of the PEO industry to the NCCI, various state insurance departments, and the insurance industry in general. He created an industry-specific blog “The PEO Compass, ” which opines to all issues PEO.
Paul Hughes is a graduate of Rollins College and the Crummer School of Business where he obtained his Master's in Business Administration.
