The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents' new president said she intends to work at raising the independent agent's profile and improving an industry reputation damaged by business practice scandals.

Donna Pile, the first woman president of the Alexandria, Va.-headquartered PIA, and managing partner of Lexington, Ky.-based A.G. Perry Insurance Agency, has plans to do a lot of traveling and hold meetings with agents and carriers during her one-year term as president, which began Oct. 1.

Foremost on her itinerary will be seeking to find ways to raise the profile of independent agents in both the carrier community and translate the good will customers hold for their individual agents into raising the reputation of the industry.

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