Bio
Christopher A. Illman is CEO of Robertson Ryan & Associates a National, Milwaukee based Top 50 US Insurance Agency with over $500M in premium and 400 Associates.
Previous to this, Chris was CEO of OneTouchPoint, a fast growing, leading Marketing Services/Communications company headquartered in Hartland, WI.
OneTouchPoint is majority owned by the Private Equity Firm, ICV Capital and is a key company within ICV’s Platform Portfolio of Companies.
Chris is a co-investor with ICV Capital and was responsible for managing all strategic business activities, directing more than 800 associates to serve the needs of its customers. Chris had full P/L responsibility and manages all Sales, Operations, HR, Finance and Administration.
OneTouchPoint has revenues exceeding $150M with operating locations in Milwaukee, WI, Cincinnati, OH, Denver, CO, Austin, TX, and Tempe, AZ. Chris was responsible for all of OneTouchPoint’s business activities including strategic direction and growth strategies which resulted in more than doubling the company in size in the past five years.
Chris has extensive Private Equity M&A experience as an investor and operator. Chris helped lead a successful exit of OneTouchPoint with Huron Capital to ICV Capital as part of its next growth chapter.
Chris is also a Private Investor and sits on the Board of Morgan Dempsey, an Institutional Capital Management Company located in Menomonee Falls, WI.
Previous to OneTouchPoint Chris was WW Managing Director of Sales for Gartner eMetrix. Chris was responsible for worldwide revenue and business development for Direct Sales, Alliances and Channels for a software startup venture of publicly held Gartner, Inc. focused on Business Performance Measurement. Chris led the creation of the division’s core offering and built the company’s professional, customer focused and consistently high performing sales organization within Gartner.
Chris also spent 15 years at Xerox Corporation, where he progressively rose through the ranks to become GM, Upper Midwest Operations for Xerox Business Services, responsible for sales, operations, finance and administration of a $200M and 250 employee business.
Chris has held various, progressively responsible executive sales and management positions and has extensive experience in business development, operations and building winning sales teams. Chris has had numerous experiences in merger and acquisitions in both the public and private company sectors. Chris holds the distinction of finishing #1 in the country in five different sales and management roles while at Xerox Corporation.
Chris earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He resides in Delafield, WI with his wife Cathy and has three daughters, Sydney 27, Madeline 22 and Sophie 17.
