About Mike Schmisek

Mike Schmisek is the founder, President and principal agent of Premier Mountain Insurance, an independent insurance agency serving Jefferson County and the Denver metro area from its office at 7991 Shaffer Pkwy in Littleton, Colorado. Mike started Premier Mountain Insurance in October 2019, after eleven years running one of the most successful Farmers Insurance agencies in Colorado. Before insurance, he built a career in business management and leadership. He was drawn to the industry for the same reason he has stayed in it: the depth of the relationships built with long-term clients, and the chance to make a real difference for a policyholder at the moment it matters most. His first agency, the Mike Schmisek Insurance Agency, opened in 2008 on a straightforward idea — build an agency around the client, not the sale. It worked. The agency earned repeated awards and distinctions for both the quality of its book and the speed of its growth. But a captive agent can only offer what one company sells, and Colorado's market changed faster than any single carrier could answer. Going independent let Mike do what he had wanted to do all along: represent the client instead of the carrier. Many years later, Premier Mountain Insurance places personal and commercial coverage through more than two dozen carriers, with a licensed team handling everything from a first home purchase to contractors' liability and workers' compensation. Mike still writes business himself, and still believes the job is the same one it was in 2008 — find people the right coverage at a fair price, then be there when they need it. Mike was born and raised in Fargo, North Dakota. After a brief stint in Woodbury, Minnesota, he moved to Highlands Ranch, Colorado with his parents in 1994 as a high school student, back when Highlands Ranch Parkway had just been paved and the town had two restaurants. He graduated with honors from Highlands Ranch High School in 1997 and went on to Colorado State University in Fort Collins, earning a degree in Political Science with a minor in History in 2001. Mike lives in the foothills of south Jefferson County with his wife, three daughters, and dog. Outside the office he can be found camping, hiking, fly fishing, mountain biking, or in the CrossFit gym.

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