Managing Partners
Luke Quaccia
520 Lake Cook Road
Suite 600
Deerfield, IL 60015
Phone 847.317.8700
Fax 847.317.1641
email: lquaccia@ft.newyorklife.com
Luke was born and raised in Oakdale, California. He has been married to his wife Michelle for 7 years after meeting her in Peoria, IL. They have two children Grace Elizabeth and Jack Anthony. Luke graduated from Stanford University with an economics degree in 1997, played three years of minor league baseball in the St. Louis Cardinals farm system, and came to New York Life in 2000 to begin his career as an agent in the Stockton GO in California. After qualifying for Executive Council three times, Luke transitioned into a role as partner in 2003 and then to Managing Partner in 2009.
“I love the fact that from the start, my career path at New York Life has been in my control. I started as an agent and loved the impact that I could have on the families I worked with. As a partner, I get to have that opportunity for impact everyday with the agents I work with.”
In addition to helping people,
Luke believes that keys to success at New York Life are a passion for winning, being coachable, and the ability to adapt rapidly.
“You have to have a passion to continually get better. A coach of mine at Stanford used to say that a player was either getting better or getting worse, but no one ever stays the same. This career is a definite reflection of that. The sooner an agent can adapt, address their weaknesses, and attack them the quicker their business will grow. Getting out of your comfort zone is the first step to any meaningful growth. Most of the time it is a function of being able to separate what you may like best, from what is best for you.”
 Van Ewing II, MBA
500 W. Madison
Suite 1725
Chicago, IL 60661
Phone 312.454.2299
Fax 312.454.2277
Email: vewing@ft.newyorklife.com
Van is a graduate of Howard University where he received a Masters of Business Administration in Finance and Banking in 1998. After graduating Howard, Van joined Texaco, Inc, located in Westchester County, New York. After completing the two-year management rotational program he was appointed to Director of Corporate Development of the Fuel and Marine Marketing division and written up in Forbes magazine as a 29-year old executive of the huge multinational Oil and Gas Company. Mr. Ewing resigned after a six-year tenure at ChevronTexaco Inc. with his last role being Director of Mergers & Acquisitions/Strategic Initiatives. Van is married to Dionne and they reside in downtown Chicago with their two dogs, Miles and Zsa Zsa. Van lives by the simple motto offered to him by his wife,"If it can be done, then I can do it.”
“New York Life has afforded me the balance of life issues that I always struggled with during my prior 8-year corporate career.”
Van enjoys the flexibility and learning/ development atmosphere of New York Life. As an agent, he was able to help a lot of families. In his current role as partner, he is able to recruit, develop and train agents to do much of the same on a larger scale.
Luke and Van are Managing Partners for New York Life's award winning Chicago Northshore General Office. As Managing Partners they oversee the operation and activities of one of New York Life’ s largest producing agencies, with over 111 agents throughout the greater Illinois area.
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