Ron Belleville is President and sole stockholder of Belleville & Associates. Ron attended and graduated from Tupper Lake High School and later earned his Bachelors degree in Education at SUNY Potsdam. After teaching for three years, he returned to Tupper Lake in 1974 and immediately became fully licensed in life, health, property and casualty insurance. Ron oversees the daily operation of the business and spends a majority of his time selling and servicing business insurance. Ron is also very active in professional organizations as well as in the community.

In 1986 Ron was elected President of the Independent Agents and Brokers Association of New York after having worked his way up through the chairs and served on many state committees.  From 1987 to 1990 he also sat on the Board of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (Insurance Agents National Organization) as the New York State Representative.  In 1991 Ron was presented the Presidential Citation by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers Association of New York – the Associations highest form of recognition.

On a local level, Ron served for several years as President of Goff-Nelson Memorial Library and was instrumental in the building of the Alberta Moody Children's Reading Room.  He is currently President of the Tupper Lake Country Club Board of Directors and Chairman of the Franklin County Industrial Development Association Board.

John R. Schryver is the Vice-President of Belleville & Associates. He was born in Tupper Lake and joined the agency in August of 1978. John became licensed for life, health, property, and casualty insurance in 1980. At present John is the personal lines manager of the agency and deals mainly with auto, homeowners and other lines of personal insurance products.

 

 

 

 

 

Kathy Tessier is a native of Tupper Lake and graduated Tupper Lake High School in 1981.  Kathy received her degree in Business Management from North Country Community College in 1983.  Kathy joined the staff of Belleville & Associates in 1987 and was licensed in 1989.  After all these years in the Insurance business she still finds every day challenging.  Kathy loves the work, cherishes the people she works with and strives to look out for the best interest of the customers of Belleville & Associates. 

 

 

Julie LaMere LUTCF joined Belleville & Associates in 1994 making the agency truly full service.  Having come from The New England Financial Group where she sold a full range of insurance products in addition to mutual funds, annuities, retirement and employee benefit plans, she brings a strong background in the industry.  Julie continues to advance her education by working on her professional designations.  She is also a recipient of the National Quality Award.  Julie specializes in personal lines products, investments and group health insurance.

 

 

Diana Penney-Smith earned a Bachelor of Science degree from West Liberty State College in West Virginia.  After moving to the Adirondacks in 1989 she became fully licensed in life, health, property and casualty insurance while working at Prudential Financial Services.  Diana joined the agency in 1998 and specializes in selling and servicing all lines of personal insurance as well as servicing commercial insurance accounts out of the Saranac Lake office.

 

 

 

 

 

Jessie (Belleville) Cole joined the staff of Belleville & Associates full time in April of 2002.  She became fully licensed in property and casualty insurance in June of 2003, but is not new to the insurance business.  Jessie started working summers at the agency during Junior High and continued to do so through High School and her early college years.  Jessie graduated from Tupper Lake High School in 1994 and earned her Associates in Business Administration from North Country Community College in 1997.   Jessie recently took over the accounting and system administration functions at the agency.