AIL Tennessee - Brett McCannell
Regional General Agent
Brett MacCannell started with AIL on Thanksgiving Day 2002 and was promoted to Supervising Agent just 6 months later. By September of 2003 he was promoted to Master General and then in March of 2004 to Regional General Agent in London Ontario. His passion for the growth of AIL has led Brett from coast to coast and across international borders. Brett began in British Columbia, and had significant influences in Ontario and Alberta, Canada before jumping to the USA and running operations in Alaska and Tennessee. He is currently responsible for the entire state of Tennessee and North Carolina.
When asked for examples of how AIL products have changed client’s lives, Brett relates the following experiences: “I'll never forget a wonderful lady named Carol and her husband who I spent hours with at their home helping them with their benefits. Sadly Carol called a few months later to share with me her diagnosis of breast cancer, although she fought hard through her illness, Carol eventually lost her battle. The silver lining for me personally was the funeral being paid for, for her husband, and her paycheck protection that continued on after she was gone." Before joining AIL, Brett has always been an entrepreneur sharing stories of building a wooden wagon to haul around a lawnmower when he was 12 years old for his own lawn care business. He has an honors degree in Urban Planning/City Design and a minor in Journalism/Business Management from the University of Western Ontario.
Brett finds his inspiration from his family who are very close to him, and ultimately his mother who passed away in January 2007 after a long and courageous battle with cancer. "My mother and father taught me so well how to treat others with respect and admiration and that helps a great deal in the business environment. People just want to be treated fairly, and given a chance in life. Who am I to take that away from them?"
Brett now lives in Nashville, TN with his spouse Danielle and Boston Terrier Shasta where he enjoys cycling and camping, and the great outdoors.
