Senior Vice President, Employee Benefits Division Account Director
Larry Giusti is Senior Vice President, Shareholder, and Employee Benefits Division Account Director for Harden, one of the Southeast’s leading insurance, risk management, and employee benefits firms. In his role, Larry is responsible for establishing and directing creative benefit solutions for the continuing challenges faced by employers today.
With over 30 years of experience in employee benefits consulting, Larry focuses on health spending, compliance, data analytics, underwriting analysis, and total population management. He leads Harden’s employee benefit teams in identifying and deploying a broad range of innovative strategic plans for improving client overall enterprise value, optimizing employee benefit resources, and creating predictable results.
Larry joined Harden in 1995, bringing his experience as Vice President and Senior Benefits Consultant for Sedgwick Noble Lowndes in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Sedgwick, now Marsh, is one of the world’s largest international employee benefits consulting firms, and they recognized Larry as one of their top benefit consultants, nationally. Larry began his career as a professor at Hiram College, Ohio and Springfield College, Massachusetts.
A graduate of Slippery Rock University, Larry earned both a Bachelor and Master of Science degree in Sports Medicine. He has earned the Chartered Life Underwriters (CLU) and Chartered Financial Consultants (ChFC) designations and is a founding member of the Board of Directors for the National Council of Employee Benefit Executives.
Larry has had involvement as a member of the community, participating in such initiatives as various JAXUSA Partnership committees, Boys & Girls Club Board of Governors, the Gator Bowl Committee, and is a graduate of Leadership Jacksonville, class of 2000. He also was a member of the Board of Directors for JaxCare, an organization providing healthcare to the uninsured and underinsured in our local community.