Meet Our Dedicated Agents
Our Team
Don Carper | Annabell Hilton | Claudine Manning | Craig Labrecque | Emma Kennedy | Holly Tonnesen | Janet Tuttle | Kaitlyn O’Brien | Lisa Estall | Ronda Carper | Stacy Valcourt
Don Carper
Head Honcho
(603) 345-6376
dcarper@davistowle.com
Don is the active partner/owner of Davis & Towle Walnut Hill. After starting the business with his father in 1987, the agency eventually became the family business they were shooting for; his mother, wife, and now the employees encompass his family philosophy.
An entrepreneur at heart, he began his business career owning a bike shop in Portsmouth, NH with his sister and close friend. In search of a new challenge, he then moved onto the insurance world where Don Carper Jr. had been for years as an executive for AIG owned companies. Sitting at the kitchen table armed with a phone book and the products of just one carrier, he began the grind to what has become one of his pride and joys in his life.
His others are his two boys, Donnie (24) and Bug (22) whom who enjoyed traveling with for their sports and continues to spend a lot of time with on the water, talking cars or on the beach, as they all begin adulting. Nevertheless, Don remains as connected to to the business as he was in the beginning. He is easy to reach 24/7 to address quote requests and attend to the needs of his clients.
Annabell Hilton
(603) 557-3769
ahilton@davistowle.com
Annabell has over 15 years’ experience helping businesses with their commercial insurance needs. Diversity is the key to her success. Her extensive business experience – in a variety of companies like GE & GM to small companies in diverse industries like high tech electronics, oil & gas, automotive, architecture, building trades, advertising & design – has prepared her to adapt quickly and bring a fresh perspective to problem solving for her insurance clients.
Claudine Manning
Personal Lines Guru
(603) 261-2539
Claudine grew up in Nashua, NH and now shares her original family home with her husband and two kids. She graduated from Southern NH University in 1994 with a double bachelor’s degree in Business and Business Education along with a certificate in education. She began her insurance profession in 1996 at Davis and Towle Walnut Hill and continues her career as a Personal Lines Account Manager.
Emma Kennedy
Preserver of Coverage
(603) 732–1130
ekennedy@davistowle.com
Emma, being a new face to the insurance world, has thrown herself into learning everything she can as thoroughly as possible. When she comes across a new situation, she reaches out to multiple sources and uses every opening as a learning opportunity. A recent transplant to New Hampshire, Emma spent most of her life growing up homeschooled in Michigan where she learned how to make genuine personal connections with nearly every person she met from a young age. A graduate of Kellogg Community College at only 17 years old, she has continued working hard to create a steady career for herself and to help her community in any way that she can.
When she isn’t reading up on a new subject, she is spending time at home. Just relaxing with her loving husband, fluffy chinchillas, and hyperactive miniature Australian shepherd
Holly Tonnesen
Personal Lines Account Manager
(603) 261-2543
A Personal Lines Account Manager at Davis & Towle Walnut Hill LLC since December 2012, Holly entered the insurance industry in 2010 as a receptionist at Walnut Hill Insurance Agency.
Janet Tuttle, BA, ACSR
Commercial Green Thumb
(603) 732-1129
JTuttle@davistowle.com
Janet Tuttle has 20+ years’ experience in the insurance industry. She attends to the insurance needs of our commercial accounts as a dedicated account manager. Tuttle enjoys reading and spending time at the beach with her husband and has been a resident of Hillsboro NH for 29 years.
Lisa Estall
Personal Lines Miracle Maker
(603) 261-2538
Lisa joined Davis & Towle Walnut Group in May 2022. Her past work lives include providing customer service in retail and freelance writing, where she concentrated mainly on celebrity news and lifestyle topics. While she was living in New York, she was the writer and co-editor of a magazine based in New Hampshire. Little did she know she would move to the Granite State two years later!
Lisa is into health and fitness and loves helping people. Now immersed in insurance, she is happy to assist you with your home and auto needs.
Ronda Carper
Confusion Control Officer
(603) 261-6379
Ronda is the Benefit Lines Manager at Davis & Towle Walnut Hill, in order to fulfill the one stop shop when it comes to our customer’s needs. She transitioned from a contract counselor in the mental health field and began working for the agency in 2004 to continue offering health insurance along with ancillary lines to their commercial customers. She helps companies traverse the world of benefits which is no easy task, but Ronda adds value by making employee benefits less daunting, and more approachable.
She puts her Masters in Clinical Mental health to work on a daily basis. Even though Don brought her into his world of insurance, (ha) she is still married to him after 25 years and obviously has a great sense of humor! She loves helping people in her job, along with spending time with family, especially their two boys (and fiancés) along with their 5 dogs.
Stacy Valcourt
Guardian of the Unexpected
(603) 672-8264
I’m Stacy. I’ve lived in NH most of my life. I’m married to Shawn, my amazing and loving husband and together we have one big hearted and very energetic son Mason. I started my insurance career in 2001 selling accident insurance door to door (not the best job), then in 2002 I joined the Walnut Hill Insurance family, which has grown into my Davis and Towle Walnut Hill family where I am a Commercial and Personal lines Account Manager. When I’m not glued to a computer I’m wishing for a good beach day. I just may be addicted to coffee and I hate spiders. That’s me in a nutshell!