Rachel C. Ybarra, CPA

Co-founder

Rachel C. Ybarra is an Executive Director of External Affairs Operation at AT&T. With twenty years of progressive financial management experience, she currently has responsibility for the allocation of strategic economic and financial resources for the organization.  Through her tenure at AT&T she has held many positions including, Controller (1996-2001), Director of Commissions (2001-2003), Associate Director of Finance (2003-2007), Director of Finance and Operations (2007-2014).

Rachel’s experience ranges from corporate financial planning, development of commissions plans, technology systems, processes and policies, to the development of corporate wide contribution and lobbying systems, corporate wide implementations and organization consolidations and reporting.   

​Rachel holds a Bachelors of Business Administration in Accounting and a Masters in Professional Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin, and is a graduate of Southern Methodist University – Cox School of Business Corporate Executive Education — Hispanic Leadership Development Program. Rachel also completed a Financial Valuation and Analysis Program at the Center for the Advancement of Value Investing held by Dr. George Athanassakos in Toronto, Canada. 

E. Duane Heady

Co-founder

For more than 25 years, Dallas-based Duane Heady has enjoyed his role as an insurance industry innovator and entrepreneur providing executive leadership to several regional insurance companies and their affiliates. Recently serving as Chief Operating Officer for Imperial Management Corporation (IMC), Duane’s responsibilities included overseeing the direction, coordination and administration of the holding company’s activities in Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. Duane also led the successful operational results for Imperial Fire & Casualty Insurance Company, RAC Insurance Partners and ABC Insurance Agencies.  

Prior to joining Imperial in 2006, Duane was the co-founder and Executive Vice President of Concord Insurance Service, a property & casualty insurance agency group.  Over a twelve-year period and under Duane’s leadership, Concord expanded from one to 26 Texas locations and increased annual premium volume from $1 million to $28 million. The company achieved such growth because of the management’s emphasis on direct marketing, targeted advertising, strong underwriting results and an uncommon commitment to its employees.  In 1999, Duane negotiated the sale of Concord Insurance Service to Mercury General Corporation, a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange, and remained Executive Vice President until 2001.