Trevor Baldwin
Analyst · Wells Fargo. Please go ahead
Thank you, Bonnie, and good afternoon, everyone. And thank you for joining us for our first quarter of 2022 earnings call. I will share brief remarks, followed by Brad, who will cover select financial and business highlights from the quarter, and then Brad, Kris and I will take questions. I want to start by thanking the amazing colleagues and partners at BRP. Q1 was a record quarter with broad-based performance across our business, highlighted by organic growth of 16%, the highest first quarter organic growth rate we have achieved since our IPO, supported by double-digit organic growth across all four segments and total revenue growth of 59%. We generated these results while investing significantly in the people and technology that we expect will drive accelerating innovation, growth and profitability through 2022 and beyond. To highlight the growth and transformation we have achieved in recent years, in the first quarter of 2022 alone, we delivered more than 175% of the revenue we generated as a firm for all of 2019, the year we went public. Adjusted EBITDA for this quarter was more than 150% greater than the adjusted EBITDA we earned in all of 2019. The MGA of the Future demonstrated strong growth of 42% during the quarter. We continued to execute multifamily, now with over 1 million renters policies and master certificates in force, while also making continued progress in new products with our de novo homeowners product now live in six states. On April 29th, we closed on the Westwood Insurance Agency transaction, a strategic partnership we announced in the first quarter. Westwood represents our largest partnership to-date and more than doubles our Main Street segment by adding embedded distribution and a team dedicated to serving new home buyers across America through our relationships with many of the top homebuilders’ across the country. Separately, through our MGA of the Future platform, we entered into a program administrator agreement with QBE, the seller of Westwood to assume operation of QBE’s roughly $200 million builder sourced homeowners book of business. This agreement fast tracks MGA of the Future homeowners’ growth with a preferred outperforming book of business. In summary, we believe BRP is now one of the industry’s leading tech-enabled personal lines brokerage and MGA businesses as measured in aggregate by policies in force, revenue, profitability and loss ratio performance. Looking into 2022, our reputation as a destination employer is also being validated on the organic hiring front. During the quarter, organic hiring continued to accelerate evidenced by our welcoming of more than 370 new colleagues. Our total headcount now stands at over 3,300, up from over 2,800 at the end of 2021 when including new colleagues from Westwood. On the partnership front, we have added approximately $82 million of annualized revenue against our 2022 goal of $100 million to $150 million of acquired revenue. Our partnership team continues to pursue partnerships that closely align with BRP’s culture, enhance our go-to-market capabilities and elevate our reputation as the premier home for our industry’s top professionals. On that topic, we are excited to announce the addition of Rich Tallo as our Chief Marketing Officer. Rich brings over 20 years of insurance industry experience, most recently as the Executive Vice President, Marketing and Communications for Chubb, where he deployed world-class marketing and communications programs. Rich will lead our marketing communication strategy across the firm, delivering programs designed to drive profitable growth and long-term recognition for BRP. Lastly, there is certainly been some volatility in the world and broader financial market since our last call took place in early March. Against this backdrop, we are fortunate to be in the enviable position of having a growing and diversified business and an extremely resilient industry. And while we are now currently prepared for a recessionary economic environment later this year, the strength of our franchise and underlying performance of our business has informed our increased outlook for 2022 organic growth which Brad will detail. With that, I will now turn the call over to Brad.