Mark Swarts

President, CEO and Founder Swarts Manning

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Mark Swarts is a Las Vegas native who has spent more than thirty years in insurance, almost all of them in a firm bearing his own name. He started out at a local agency, left to found Swarts & Associates on 1 January 1996, and has run the business ever since as President, CEO and Founder — through a partnership that renamed it Swarts Manning & Associates and on to the present Swarts Manning. The agency now employs close to fifty people across Nevada, California and Utah, is licensed in all fifty states, and runs dedicated commercial, personal, health and benefits, surety and claims departments. Alongside the business he has spent a quarter of a century in the independent agents’ trade associations, including as chairman of the Nevada association and as Nevada’s representative on the national board.

Career Highlights

• Founded Swarts & Associates in Las Vegas on 1 January 1996 and has led the firm for three decades as it became Swarts Manning & Associates and then Swarts Manning.
• Grew the agency to nearly fifty employees across offices in Nevada, California and Utah, with underwriting capabilities across all fifty states and cross-border partnerships in Canada.
• Built out dedicated departments covering commercial insurance, personal insurance, health benefits, surety bonds and claims, so that the firm could serve a client’s whole risk programme rather than a single line.
• Served as President of the Independent Insurance Agents of Southern Nevada and Chairman of the Nevada Independent Insurance Agents’ Association.
• Sat on the board of directors of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America as Nevada’s representative, and served on the InsurPac Board of Trustees.
• Works with some of the most recognised businesses in Las Vegas, including insurance programmes for public-private development partnerships.

Professional Journey

Swarts grew up in Las Vegas and began his insurance career at a local agency there — his own account does not name it. What he took from that period was a conviction that serving clients well in this business required genuine technical depth rather than salesmanship, and that becoming an expert in insurance and risk management was the prerequisite for everything else.

He left to start his own firm, Swarts & Associates, on 1 January 1996. The agency grew steadily on the back of that technical reputation, establishing itself as a dependable adviser to the Las Vegas business community rather than simply a placer of policies. Not long after founding it, Swarts brought in a close friend, Justin Manning, who became a partner; the firm was renamed Swarts Manning & Associates, and Manning today serves as its chief operating officer and co-founder.

Three decades on, Swarts Manning employs nearly fifty people across offices in Nevada, California and Utah, holds licences in all fifty states, and maintains Canadian partnerships for cross-border programmes. Its leadership has a family dimension: Dylan Swarts is a commercial broker, chief financial officer and shareholder, and Tim Shank is a senior commercial broker, chief revenue officer and shareholder.

Outside the agency, Swarts has been deliberate about industry service. He has been involved with the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America — the Big I — for more than twenty-five years, serving as President of the Independent Insurance Agents of Southern Nevada, as Chairman of the Nevada Independent Insurance Agents’ Association, as Nevada’s member of the national board of directors, and as a trustee of InsurPac, the association’s political action committee.

Education

No education was established for this profile. Swarts Manning publishes a detailed biography for him covering his career, industry service and family, and it names no school or degree; no other source was found that does.