2026 Executive Committee Award & President's Award

Executive Committee Award

The Executive Committee Award recognizes an individual that demonstrates invaluable expertise and contributions to the Executive Committee and all IRES Committees. Bob McManus demonstrated his dedication through various IRES Committees and the Executive Committee.

Bob led the Education Committee and has worked to ensure informative educational opportunities are offered to members on a regular basis. Additionally, Bob coordinated with the Accreditation and Ethics Committee to allow for continuing education credit hours to be counted for on-line webinars. Bob, we thank you.

President's Award

President’s Award recognizes individuals who demonstrate exceptional dedication and contribute significant service to IRES' mission of enhancing consumer protection and professional ethics in insurance regulation. Chris Heisler has demonstrated his dedication and is helping to bring financial transparency to the Committee Chairs.

Chris has worked with the IRES Foundation school to understand how they share monthly financial information with Committee chairs. He has also worked closely with Miller Wenhold, IRES’ Administrator, to incorporate a process to share the financial status of each IRES committee with the applicable chair to help ensure the accuracy of the expenditure applications. These changes allow IRES to have a clearer picture of its financial position and to more accurately track expenses for each IRES Committee. In addition, Chris co-chaired this CDS with Brett Bache and Craig Leonard. This award is a small thank you for all Chris has done this past year for the betterment of IRES. Chris, we thank you.