State Farm® Insurance Agent Ben Carr

My name is Ben Carr and I was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. I graduated from the University of Virginia with a major in Chemistry and Minor in Economics. I was the class of 2003. I have been a State Farm Agent since January of 2019. Before becoming an agent I worked in Auto, Fire, and Catastrophe claims for 15 years with State Farm.

My team and I are here to assist you with your Auto insurance, Home insurance, Condo insurance, and Motorcycle insurance needs. We also provide Small Business insurance for entrepreneurs. We have select policies for those who wish to insure their Scooters, Electric Bikes, and ATVs as well. We provide a wide range of Financial Services, Retirement planning, and Financial Products. For additional life planning needs, we provide Life Insurance and Health Insurance as well.

The agency is licensed in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Oregon. The office is located in San Francisco, California but we service the surrounding Bay Area including but not limited to the North Bay (Sausalito, Mill Valley and San Rafael), East Bay (Oakland, Richmond, Concord, Walnut Creek, and Vallejo) and South San Francisco. We currently have team member who speak English and Spanish.

My mission is to uphold the commitment to our policy holders and become the first option for our customers insurance and financial services needs. he strength and success of my agency is intrinsically tied to our ability to embrace diversity and inclusion. By extracting from the full range of diversity and employing the tenets of inclusion, my agency creates a culture which is positioned to leverage varying human resources in achieving strategic goals for our customers.

My agency plans to meet these objectives by (1)  Improving focus on customers - by better understanding their needs, operating in their communities, assessing and educating them on their risks, and improving perceptions through positive relationships; (2)  Managing the business effectively by gaining access to untapped markets, increasing exposure in growing demographic groups, better understanding how to promote product lines, and improving productivity and effectiveness through ensuring employee satisfaction; (3)  Developing employees to their full potential by creating an environment that values creativity and expression, providing diversity training to improve communication and cooperation, offering career and personal opportunities to advance both hard and soft skills, and attracting and retaining qualified and dedicated employees.

Harnessing the talents and ideas of a diverse workforce allows my agency to achieve unsurpassed creative problem solving. An engaged workforce with access to development opportunities places the agency in a better position to mobilize new ideas in meeting the ever-changing needs of customers. There is no better way to accomplish this than through an informed understanding of the unique cultures and communities in which we operate.