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Austin Madison joined the MJ team in 2025 as Market President – Tennessee, to launch MJ’s expansion into the fast-growing Tennessee market with a Nashville-based office. With nearly two decades of experience in the employee benefits and insurance space and a sterling reputation throughout Middle Tennessee and nationally within the insurance industry, Austin leads MJ’s development, growth and expansion into one of the nation’s most desirable and competitive business environments.
With deep experience running benefits management at some of the nation’s top-ranked private and publicly traded brokerage firms, Austin was drawn to MJ for the company’s people-first corporate culture; its superior resources, technology and data tools; and its commitment to balancing best-in-industry revenue growth and healthy profit margins with its clients’ and employees’ wellbeing.
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