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Self-made entrepreneur Ed Shackelford is the CEO and founder of The Assurance Group. Since 1988, Shackelford evolved a dream that began in his garage into a nationally recognized company in the marketing and sale of insurance products.
About Ed Shackelford – The Founder & CEO of The Assurance Group
Growing up in a family that worked in the textile industry, and in central North Carolina, an area known around the world for its textile plants, Ed Shackelford was destined to spend his working life in the mill.
Well, you would think so.
Ed took his first job in a textile plant as a “fixer” while still a junior in high school. He worked second shift – 3:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Ed’s grandfather, Ray Stafford, happened to be the “head fixer” at the textile plant and would surely teach his young grandson all of the tricks required to keep the loud and dangerous machines running. Ed would learn to fix machines – machines that knitted socks.
