Aspen Cove Insurance Staff

The person behind the scenes that helped Aspen Cove Insurance come to fruition is Trent Ferguson.

Trent Ferguson, Benefits Manager
Trent worked for Linsco as a Financial Consultant in which he provided financial and insurance services to clients. He also worked for World Group Securities in which he was the marketing director, a Branch Office Supervisor, and a Senior Associate.

Trent’s licenses include Life, Health, Disabilities, and Securities #6, 63, and 26. Trent graduated from BYU with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 2002.

Craig Allred, CEO
Craig Allred is one of the co-founders of Employer Solutions Group and Aspen Cove Insurance. He has over 13 years of business experience. His experience, coupled with his unique understanding of the benefits and advantages of co-employment, makes him a uniquely qualified authority in his field. He is current president and owner of two additional successful small businesses.

Craig served as CEO for 5 years at A+ Benefits. He implemented long-term objectives that resulted in a sales increase of 47% and a net income of 312%. Craig studied business finance from Brigham Young University and studied accounting at Utah Valley State College.

Dee Henderson, Vice President of Human Resources
Dee’s experience prior to coming to Aspen Cove Insurnace included over 5 years of human resource experience. Dee spent 2 ½ years in the United State Marshals Service as their senior employee relations’ specialist. His responsibilities included developing performance based compensation systems, coaching team members to achieve objectives, management of employee relations budget, create resolution and grievance process to resolve employee concerns, investigate and make recommendations in cases of alleged employee wrongdoing, write Human Resources vision and objectives, prepare, write and conduct disciplinary delegation training, manual and course.

Dee also worked as a Presidential Management Intern at NASA where he trained office staff in the use of computer programs, audited and assured compliance with office software licensing agreements, and developed NASA’s Human Resource Strategic Plan & Vision Statement. Dee has earned a Masters Degree of Public Administration from BYU; he has also achieved a Bachelor of Arts, History, also from BYU.

Garth Allred, Vice President of Finance
Garth previously served for 8 years as the chief financial officer/controller for the group of Traco companies, involved in manufacturing and importing from the Pacific Rim. He oversaw the financial growth of the Traco companies from 1 million in sales in 1990 to 10 million in sales in 1997. Traco was awarded “Company 392” of the Inc. 500 award in 1992 as one of the 500 fastest growing privately held companies in America. Garth received the Utah 100 award from Governor Leavitt for Traco as one of Utah’s top 100 privately held growth companies, during 1996.

Prior to Traco Garth was the controller for LanFix, Inc., and has spent the last 15 years consulting with small business community in the accounting and taxation areas. Garth received a bachelors and masters degree in Accounting from the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University.