Carlo Abbruzzo is the President and Senior Employee Benefits Consultant of Abbruzzo & Associates Insurance Agency. He began his career at Sentara and Optima Health System as a Medicare Marketing Manager in 1990 and was later promoted to lead a new Group Sales Department. In 1995, he joined a consulting firm that specialized in providing services to municipalities, school systems, and large maritime employers. He founded Abbruzzo & Associates in 2000. As a member of professional organizations, he has received awards for his excellence in the field and has served on advisory boards. He is actively involved in his community through his church and coaching youth sports.

1. Carlo Abbruzzo is President and Senior Employee Benefits Consultant for Abbruzzo &
Associates Insurance Agency. He began his career at Sentara and Optima Health System, the
premier integrated health system in Virginia as a Medicare Marketing Manager in 1990 and was
then promoted to lead a newly established Group Sales Department a year later. Mr. Abbruzzo
left the health care conglomerate five years later to join the consulting firm of B&W Benefits
Planning Company which specialized in providing Consulting Services to Municipalities, School
System and large maritime employers. He founded Abbruzzo & Associates in July 2000. He is a
graduate of Temple University.
Carlo is actively involved with employers in designing, implementing and overseeing strategic
program design, cost containment strategies such as alternative funding mechanisms for both
self-insured and fully insured benefits, consumer driven health plans, and wellness and
population management programs to name a few. In addition, he also works with national benefit
plans helping to design strategies to maximize efficiency such as pooling arrangements,
consolidation of local plans and utilizing international based plans when necessary.
As a member of the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) which represents
20,000 professional health insurance agents, brokers and consultants, he was recognized by The
Leading Producers Round Table and has qualified to receive the Association’s prestigious
Golden Eagle Award. The Golden Eagle Award is the highest recognition bestowed upon an
individual who has demonstrated professional excellence in in his field. He has served on
Congressman Glenn Nye’s Health Care Advisory Board in 2010 during the Congressmen’s two
year tenure. A Board Member since 2009 of the Eastern Virginia Association of Health
Underwriters (EVAHU), Mr. Abbruzzo served as the Legislative Chairman where he actively
meet with Virginia’s Congressmen, Senators and their aides. He’s been active in several other
capacities such as the HUPAC Chairman for two years and currently serves as their Media
Relations Chairman. Additionally, Carlo serves his local community as an active member of his
church and coached his three boys in youth sports with a focus on soccer.