Highland Capital Brokerage Principals

Christopher D. Heyn
Managing Principal, Atlanta
E-mail:  cheyn@highland.com
Website:  http://www.insouthfinancial.com

Christopher D. Heyn serves as managing principal of the Atlanta office of Highland Capital Brokerage. Mr. Heyn entered the insurance industry in 1972 in the Property and Casualty agency business.  As a partner in the firm C. W. Heyn and Associates, he gravitated toward the life insurance field.  In 1980 he became a full time career agent with Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company.  In 1992, Mr. Heyn entered the independent brokerage general agency business as president and managing partner of INSouth Financial Group, which was a founding  member of The R. E. Lee Group, US/LP.  Mr. Heyn serves as a member of the board of directors of The Atlanta Society of Financial Service Professionals and is a member of the board of directors of The Link Counseling Center.  He earned his Chartered Financial Consultant and Chartered Life Underwriter degrees from The American College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.  

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Eleanor I. Johnson
Managing Principal, Northwest offices and Hawaii
E-mail:  ejohnson@highland.com
Website:  http://www.relee.com

Eleanor Johnson is a Certified Public Accountant and is the managing principal of the Seattle, San Francisco and Honolulu Highland Capital Brokerage offices.   Ms. Johnson began her insurance career with an M Group office in 1983, where she specialized in the executive benefit market.  In 1988, she became the Assistant General Manager of the Seattle ManuLife Financial branch and doubled production within 18 months.  Ms. Johnson joined the Seattle R.E. Lee office as Associate General Agent in 1991 and was named Vice President of R.E. Lee International, Ltd. in 1997.  She is an active member of several professional organizations and charitable planning boards, and has served as the chair of the country’s 2nd largest estate planning conference in October 2000.  Ms. Johnson is well known and respected in the estate planning community and is a frequent speaker nationally and regionally on a variety of estate and business planning topics.  

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Robert E. Lee
Managing Principal
Website:  http://www.relee.com

Robert E. Lee serves as a managing principal of Highland Capital Brokerage.  Mr. Lee entered the insurance industry in 1954 and began his sole operation in 1960 in Seattle, Washington.  Between the years of 1964 and 1991 he formed offices throughout California, Hawaii, Texas, Hong Kong and Indonesia.  In 1992 he played an instrumental role in forming the R. E. Lee Group with offices throughout the United States. The combined operations control more than $50 billion of insurance.  Mr. Lee resides in Seattle.  

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