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Baxter (Bret) Maffett & John O'Connell
Co-Owners
info@cmsmith.com
Baxter (Bret) Maffett
President, Insurance and Retirement Services
bmaffett@cmsmith.com
Baxter (Bret) Maffett is a co-owner of the C.M. Smith Agency, Inc. He joined C.M. Smith in 1983. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Middlebury College in 1972 and a Masters of Business Administration from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College in 1975.
Bret holds the following professional designations: Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU), Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC), and Certified in Long Term Care (CLTC). He is a life and qualifying member of the Million Dollar Round Table, a member of the American Society of Chartered Life Underwriters, the National Association of Life Underwriters and the Estate and Business Planning Council of Hartford.
Bret is actively involved with a number of community organizations and industry groups. He serves as vice-chairman of the Advisory Board for Jefferson House (an affiliate of Hartford Hospital) and on the Saint Francis Hospital Foundation Board.
Bret Maffett is a Registered Representative of Tower Square Securities, Inc. and is licensed in CT, CA Insurance Lic. #0786399 State of Domicle CT, MA, MD, MN, MO, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VA and VT for the sale of securities products.
He is also a registered representative of MML Investors Services, Inc. member SIPC (www.sipc.org)Supervisory office, 76 Batterson Park Road, Farmington, CT 06032 - (860)674-1800 for the sale of variable life and variable annuity products only and is licensed in CT, AZ, CA Insurance Lic. #0786399 State of Domicile CT, Washington, DC, GA, IL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MN, MO, NH, NJ, NY, PA and VT.
John O’Connell
President, Employee Benefits
joconnell@cmsmith.com
John O’Connell is a co-owner of the C.M. Smith Agency, Inc. He joined the firm in 1986. An alumnus of Trinity College, Class of 1981, he has earned industry designations as a Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS) and a Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU). He is a member of the International Foundation of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists, the American Society of Chartered Life Underwriters, the National Association of Life Underwriters, the Connecticut Benefit Brokers and the Benefit Advisors Network, where he serves on the Board of Directors.
O'Connell served on the board of the VNA Health Care, Inc. from 1994-2002, and was chair from 1999 to 2002. He also served on the Board of Renbrook School in West Hartford from 1998-2006 and was chair from 2003-2006. John currently serves as co-chair of “Setting the Course, the Endowment Campaign for Renbrook School.”
John brings strategic perspective through his service on the boards of several local institutions. He served on the Financial Committee of the Connecticut Health First Authority, an entity authorized by the Connecticut General Assembly to evaluate and recommend health care reform initiatives for Connecticut.
John is active in other community and industry organizations, including service as a Corporator of Hartford Hospital and a Corporator of Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center.
John holds life and health licenses in the following states: CT, AL, AR, AZ, CA, DC, FL, GA, IL, IA, KY, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA and WI.
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