Kevin Tawil

And we realized we have tens, well, we have 23,000, but we have so many employees who are hourly employees.

And

If they have a traumatic or problematic or big issue in their lives, then they might not have the money to pay for it.

It could be additional healthcare costs for that person or somebody in their family.

It could be a death in the family and just being able to bury them.

I mean, there are events in people's lives where they just need financial help.

So we created this fund and the company seeded it and...

Eventually, employees can deduct from the paycheck and put into it.

And then it's managed by a group of managers who get applications from people who have issues.

And we gift and donate money to these individuals on a regular basis.

It's really helpful.

We've got thousands of employees in the Philippines.

And whenever there's a hurricane there, a lot of people are displaced and put out of their homes and have to rebuild their lives.

And we use the Compassion Forward Fund for that as well.

So it really helps build community and connection within the Asurion network.

It's something we think is pretty innovative and helps tie that team feeling together.

We try to promulgate this to companies.

We've got an evangelist who will go out to other companies and describe Compassion Forward and how it works with the hopes that other companies do this as well.

We benefited greatly from being attached to the wireless industry, obviously, where the number of customers with wireless handsets grew from 10 million when we started in 1995 to ultimately over 300 million.

And when we started out, there were scores and scores of wireless companies that were set up almost by MSA.