Mark Bagnall was a pioneer when he and his wife, Lynn, moved their family 28 years ago to Ahwatukee, then little more than a dusty seedling of the vibrant community it has become.
He was a pioneer as well when he set up his business, Bagnall Co., here in 1995. He saw his human resources consulting firm as filling a need in the industry for a company that “put the customer as the highest priority.”
And as Bagnall prepares to retire next month, he’s pretty sure the company to which he sold his firm in December 2016 will continue the pioneer attitude that established his legacy.
In part, that’s because his daughter, Cynthia Walter, plays a key role in the company’s new owner, Arthur J. Gallagher, a 90-year-old Fortune 500 corporation that made Bagnall the first benefit consulting firm it acquired in Arizona.
Walter is now area president of Gallagher Benefit Services, a division of Gallagher with 12 employees in the state and 22,000 worldwide.
The careers of father and daughter have been intertwined for more than a decade, an outgrowth of a deeply personal relationship that dates back far longer than that.
A product of Kyrene schools in Ahwatukee as well as a member of Mountain Pointe High School’s first graduating class, Walter speaks affectionately of her father both as a person and a businessman.
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