In keeping with the tradition of the Oscars, the Grammys, and other significant events, IdeaStar’s Vice President of Insurance Technologies Mike Wise (L) was awarded The 2006 Employee of the Year by President Jim Fisher (R).

The award is given annually to the IdeaStar employee who made the most of opportunities and had a stellar year. Mike, responsible for selling IdeaStar’s online insurance services, joined IdeaStar over three years ago. That first year he didn’t sell anything. But times have changed, and last year Mike had over $1 million in sales.

“I really like going out and selling for all you guys,” he told the IdeaStar staff. “It’s especially easy when I get to tell people about our resident PH. D. and how smart he is, that we have one of the top guys in the country programming quote engines, and we have a whole team of great, great professionals just waiting to Web enable insurance systems.”

Two other employees, Jane Hudeck and Scott Largent, were awarded clocks for five years of service. Thanks Jane and Scott!

How does the employee of the year celebrate? He cooks the staff corned beef for lunch.

And then, of course, he does the dishes.

Brent Williams and Steve Harrison enjoyed the lunch, along with everybody else at IdeaStar.

Yum. Thanks Mike!

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