Blake Y. Stock is Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner of the Combined Group it’s affiliates and subsidiaries (“Combined”) and is responsible for strategic and operational affairs of the organizations. Stock joined Combined in May 1992 as Corporate Controller, then Chief Financial Officer. In January 2002 Stock was appointed as Chief Executive Officer and in January 2006 named as Managing Partner

Combined is a program administrator widely recognized as best in class providing distribution and administration of casualty insurance coverages and services through it’s 1,600 agency plant in the South and Southwestern United States. Stock is responsible for placement of Combined’s Texas nonsubscription (“Opt-Out” insurance) facilities in manuscripting coverage forms and establishing the carrier/reinsurer markets. Combined has underwritten over $1.2 billion of workers compensation equivalent nonsubscription premiums and administered over 42,000 nonsubscription claims for Texas employers since October, 1989. In 2002 the organization began it’s web-based electronic aggregation initiative of QuoteExpress which provides producing agents an Internet rate, quote and bind platform for multi-carrier markets. QuoteExpress has achieved substantial production levels and outstanding carrier profitability.

Stock is a Board of Director member for both the Texas Association of Business, an association representing over 25,000 Texas businesses, and the Texas Alliance of Nonsubscriber, an association of the state’s leading nonsubscribing employers. Stock Chaired the 2005 Legislative Committee Nonsubscribers Task Force for TAB and is an active member of the Nonsubscribers Executive Committee.

In 2001 Stock became an executive member of the Texas Surplus Lines Automation & Technology Committee founded to establish SLSOT standards for the Electronic Forms Technology platform which provides electronic filing functionality to excess and surplus agencies.

In addition to his professional roles, Stock is Founder and President of Share A Smile Foundation a 501(c)(3) Organization founded in 2002 to treat children with vascular birth anomalies. This organization, in partnership with The Fogelson Craniofacial Surgery Center for Children and Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, provides medical services to children in need