WHO WE ARE
About Reliance Global Group
“It is very fulfilling to know that our combination of Insurance and technology is making a real difference to the industry.”
Reliance Global Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: RELI, RELIW) is an insurtech company combining advanced technologies, with the personalized experience of a traditional insurance agency model. Reliance Global Group’s growth strategy includes both an organic expansion, including through 5minuteinsure.com, as well as acquiring well managed, undervalued and cash flow positive insurance agencies.
RELI’s focus is to pursue an aggressive growth strategy of acquisitions in insurance brokerages and other financial service companies.
Our Companies
Ezra Beyman
Chairman + CEO
Mr. Beyman brings nearly three decades of entrepreneurial experience in real estate and ten years in insurance. His portfolio of commercial and residential properties at one point consisted of more than 40,000 residential units, as well as several insurance companies. In 1985, he founded his first mortgage brokerage, which rapidly grew into the third largest licensed mortgage brokerage in America by 2008. He also expanded to real estate acquisition, having grown his portfolio to over three billion dollars.
Alex Blumenfrucht, CPA
Chief Financial Officer
Prior to joining Reliance, Mr. Blumenfrucht served as an Audit & Assurance Professional at Deloitte & Touche, LLP where he successfully led audit teams on both public and privately held corporations. He brings extensive experience in internal controls, financial analysis and reporting for both private and publicly traded companies.
Yaakov Beyman
Exec. Vice President
Insurance Division
Mr. Beyman oversees the overall insurance operations of Reliance, including strategy and developing/implementing operational tools. He holds insurance licenses in most of the continental United States, and is involved heavily in marketing, maintaining state of the art technological models, financial management and distributions, and entity creation and maintenance.
Mark Sisson
Chief Financial Officer
US Benefits Alliance
Mark has over 20 years of experience working as a broker in the health and life insurance industry. Over the course of that time, he founded Employee Benefits Solutions, LLC in 2003, My Family Health Insurance, a General Agency in 2013, and The Referral Depot in 2014. In 2018, he sold his businesses to Reliance Global Group and now plays an active role in agency acquisitions, national agent recruitment, and alignment of key insurance carrier partnerships.
Moshe Fishman
Director of Insurtech
Mr. Fishman brings a unique perspective to the insurance sales process. Prior to starting his own insurance agency, Mr. Fishman was a recognized guru in the travel industry leveraging the technology in the travel sector. This tech savviness has been applied into the insurance and financial services industries with the founding of Fishman Insurance Agency as well as Tekeno Financial. Mr. Fishman is one of the driving talents of Reliance’s 5MinuteInsure.com insurance comparing and purchasing platform.
Jonathan Fortman
V.P. of Acquisitions
Prior to joining Reliance, Mr. Fortman has spent the last 18 years operating, owning and expanding his families multiple line insurance agency at Fortman Insurance Services. Along with being a principal of the agency, he also specializes in sales, retention, growth and service for the agencies large book of Employee Benefit clients. He brings an extensive level of agency management experience as well as providing growth strategies for newly acquired agencies.
Julie A. Blockey
General Manager
CLU, ChFC, RHU, REBC, CASL
As an agent in Montana for the past 35 years, Julie has learned to appreciate the diverse needs of businesses and families. She strives alongside her staff to find the best solution for every possible need. She welcomes the opportunity to be of service to those she works with.
Joel Markovits, CPA
Chief Accounting Officer
Joel brings over 9 years’ experience with financial reporting in both the public and private sectors. Prior to joining Reliance, Mr. Markovits was a senior manager at KPMG LLP, where he led some of the larger and more complex audit engagements, including serving as lead audit senior manager on a global $16 billion (annual revenues) enterprise reporting on both US GAAP and IFRS standards. He was also a data & analytics specialist and technology leader at KPMG for its largest US Business Unit overseeing the development and deployment of technological capabilities that enhance data analyses and audit processes. Mr. Markovits is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New Jersey since November 2013.
Leadership
Ezra Beyman
Chairman + CEO
Alex Blumenfrucht
Chief Financial Officer
Yaakov Beyman
Exec. Vice President
Insurance Division
Joel Markovits, CPA
Chief Accounting Officer
Moshe Fishman
Director of Insurtech
Jonathan Fortman
V.P. of Acquisitions
Julie A. Blockey
General Manager
CLU, ChFC, RHU, REBC, CASL
Mark Sisson
Chief Operating Officer
US Benefits Alliance
