Alison Wynne is the Practice Leader in the Aviation Division of Brown & Brown. Prior to joining the Brown & Brown team, she was an aviation insurance broker for Hays Companies. Hays became a member of the Brown & Brown family in 2018. Prior to Hays, she managed an aviation specialty brokerage in the Twin Cities. She holds a BS in Aviation Science Administration from Western Michigan University – College of Aviation and is an active Instrument Rated Private Pilot. Her experience in the industry includes the placement and servicing of insurance for airlines, corporate flight departments, aviation products liability, EMS operations, charter operators, fixed based operators, airports, flight schools, aerial applicator, commercial rotor wing and governmental entities.Her professional experience also includes work as a flight dispatcher at Western Michigan University College of Aviation, an internship at Gerald R. Ford International Airport, and as a service representative at a full-service fixed base operation in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is an active member of several national and regional aviation associations and is currently serving on the Brokers Committee for the Aircraft Builders Council and was voted by a group of her peers to be on the Executive Board of the Minnesota Business Aviation Association (MBAA). Alison is currently serving as the President of the MBAA. Notably, her term officially marked the first time that a regional chapter of the National Business Aviation Association has had an all-female Board of Directors since its inception in 1947