Kevin Lea

Director, Digital Product Distribution

I’m Kevin Lea, Director of Digital Product Distribution at Axis Insurance. My focus is on modernizing and digitizing the insurance buying process, particularly for our program business. This wide-ranging role lets me work with and support all of Axis’s practice groups across Canada. 

My insurance career began at the University of Calgary, where I graduated from the Haskayne School of Business’s Risk Management: Insurance & Finance program. After some time as a multi-line commercial claims adjuster at Federated Insurance, I moved over to the broker side of the industry, rising to become one of the youngest partners in history at Rogers Insurance (now Acera). Along the way, I also added the CIP, CAIB and CRM designations to my educational credentials.  

In 2017, I made a key career pivot and co-founded Fuse Insurance alongside my childhood friend, Simon Hlywa, with the dream of building the most advanced digital commercial insurance brokerage in Canada. Along the way, Fuse won multiple awards including the Insurance Business Canada award for Small Brokerage of the Year in 2019, 2022 and 2023, as well as the Insurance Brokers Association of Alberta (IBAA) Small Brokerage of the Year award in 2024.  

I have been fortunate to give back to the insurance industry in many ways. As of 2025, I am currently the Vice President of the IBAA, the Alberta representative on the Insurance Brokers Association of Canada (IBAC) Technology Committee, the Western Canada broker representative on the IBAC AI Working Group, and a member of the Advisory Council for the Insurance & Risk Management program at Calgary’s Bow Valley College. As well, I am proud to be involved with industry charitable initiatives including the Sherre Newell Memorial Golf Tournament, Blue Goose (Alberta Pond), IPC, and WICC. 

Outside of work, I am an avid traveller, from the farthest flung reaches of the planet to my own backyard in Southern Alberta. When I’m not on a plane or in front of a computer, I like to get in a very mediocre round of golf or whip up something tasty in the kitchen.