Our Story

A Message from our Founder

After my father accepted a Regional Sales Manager position with his company, our family moved from Pennsylvania to Atlanta, Georgia in 1965. I have always said I “peeked early” in my life, becoming the Student Counsel President of my class and Captain of the Patrols in the 7th grade.

I graduated from Chamblee High School, now a Magnet School, in 1974 and went on to graduate from Georgia Tech in 1978. I started my insurance career in August 1978 with Moye Financial Associates, Inc., an insurance agency in Atlanta, selling individual life insurance. As I grew my clientele, I started selling group insurance to small and medium sized companies in the early 80’s. I worked at Moye Financial for 19 years and with the owner’s blessing, I incorporated and started Bachman Insurance Services, Inc. in May 1997. I was able to transfer all my clients to my new company and started to build my agency with two employees.

In 2002, I purchased my first office building from a client and at that time, I had four employees. Just before the recession in 2007-2008, I sold that building and moved into new office space to expand and we grew to about eight employees, mostly focused on group insurance with a clientele of about 100 company accounts. We continued to grow our agency and in 2010, we rebranded our company as BIS Benefits, Inc. A few years later, one of our clients suggested as a tag line for BIS, “Best in Service” because they were very impressed how we had served their employees. In 2016, we changed that tag line to “Best in Servicing” because, as a faith-based company, we wanted to convey the ”extra mile” effort in working with our clients. By 2018, we grew to 16 employees and moved into a larger building in Roswell that I purchased and completely renovated. Also, in 2018 I took on two partners, Brian Durham and Drew Holley who are now, Vice-Presidents, and extremely gifted in their roles.

For years, many of our clients asked us to consider taking over their Commercial Insurance because they were impressed with the work we had done with their group insurance over the years. After much time, research, and effort, in January 2022, we incorporated and launched BIS Risk Services, LLC which is a Property & Casualty agency. We hired Jesse Couch, an 18-year veteran in Commercial Insurance sales who is now, one of the partners in our new firm. In total, between the two BIS companies, we employ 24 staff, working with 450 corporate clients. Regarding industry recognition, we have received “Best Places to Work” and “Healthiest Places to Work” from the Atlanta Business Chronicle for the past four years. With our current capabilities, we are a “One Stop Shop” for our clients regarding all their insurance needs and are contracted with the top insurance carriers in the industry.

After 44 years in this industry, I can still say I love this business and we are truly serving our clients with excellence!