Auto Insurance Services New York NY John Russo is the President of KJE Insurance Services. He founded the firm in 2008 after serving in the Marines and working with The Island Financial Group. John is also the President of the New York City chapter of the National Marine Corps Business Network. A native New Yorker (Long Island to be precise) with business offices in New York City and Jericho, John knows the city and its suburbs. "Because I live and work here, I understand the New York area’s unique business environment and housing market," John says. When he is not working, John loves hiking, biking, and kayaking with his wife and two daughters. His favorite hiking spots are Pine Meadow Lake in Harriman State Park, Schunemunk Mountain in Orange County, North-South Lake in the Catskill Forest Preserve. John and his wife Kathleen actively support the American Heart Association Heart Walk, and the JDRF One Walk to raise money to transform the lives of the millions of people living with Type I diabetes. As our way of saying thank you to his clients, John started a "Help Our Community" referral program. John says, "We love supporting the charitable efforts in our community, so we’ve tied referrals and charitable giving together with our support of the Pajama Program." The program helps children who face losing loved ones, foster care placement, inadequate or unsafe housing, homelessness, violence in the home, or whose families struggle to make ends meet..