Wes Covington
• Partner, Bryant, Patterson, Covington & Idol, Durham
• Member of original DAN board in 1980
• DAN corporate counsel, 1980-2000
• Board member and corporate counsel, Accident and General Insurance Company
• Partner, Insurance Management Resources International and Traveler’s Emergency Network

Peter Bennett
• DAN Chief Executive Officer since 1980
• Board member and president, Accident and General Insurance Company, Grand Cayman • Duke University anesthesiology professor 1972-present
• Partner, Insurance Management Resources International and Traveler’s Emergency Network
• 2001 Pavlov Award, Russian Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2002 Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Ernst & Young of the Carolinas
• 2002 Reaching Out Award of the Diving Equipment and Marketing Association,
• Co-Editor, The Physiology and Medicine of Diving, one of scuba’s scientific bibles