Personnel Changes: BCG, Delta Dental, Liberty Life, Allianz Life, Securian, Great-West, PCS
July 25, 2011 by Allison Bell
Published 7/22/2011
The Boston Consulting Group Inc. (BCG) has hired Thomas McInerney to be a senior advisor.
McInerney previously was chief operating officer of the global insurance
division at ING Groep N.V., Amsterdam (NYSE:ING), and chief executive officer of
the ING Americas division, according to BCG, Boston.
McInerney has been on the board of the American Council of Life Insurers,
Washington, and of the Financial Services Roundtable, Washington. He now is on
the board of the Dartmouth business school.
He has a bachelor’s degree from Colgate University and a master’s degree in
business from Dartmouth.
In other personnel news,
– Dentegra Group Inc., San Francisco, has hired Tom Leibowitz to be
vice president and chief actuary.
Dentegra is the parent of Delta Dental of California and Delta Dental
Insurance Company.
Leibowitz will oversee 50 actuarial analysts in the companies’ main offices
in California, Pennsylvania and Georgia.
Leibowitz previously was the executive director of the Western region at
Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Calif.
He has a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degrees in mathematics and the
actuarial sciences from the University of Connecticut. He holds the fellow of
the Society of Actuaries professional designation.
– Liberty Life Insurance Company, Greenville, S.C., a unit of Athene
Holding Ltd., Hamilton, Bermuda, has hired Rod Mims to be national sales
manager.
Mims will be based in Wilmington, Del., and will be in charge of sales and
business development for the retail annuity business Athene is building.
Mims previously was national sales manager at Genworth Financial Inc.,
Richmond, Va. (NYSE:GNW).
He has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from East Carolina
University.
– Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, Golden Valley,
Minn., a unit of Allianz S.E., Munich, Germany, has promoted Sherri Du Mond to
head of distribution training.
She previously was vice president of internal sales and sales
development.
She has a bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis.
– Securian Financial Group Inc., St. Paul, Minn, has promoted three
offices.
Kathleen Pinkett was promoted to senior vice president, human resources and
corporate services, from vice president, human resources and corporate
services.
Mark Baltes was promoted to vice president technical services, from second
vice president; and Nancy Swanson was promoted to vice president and corporate
compliance officer, from second vice president.
– Ameritas Life Insurance Corp., a unit of UNIFI Mutual Holding
Company, Lincoln, Neb., has hired David Robertson to be a manager of broker
relationships and sales in Texas and New Mexico.
Robertson, who will be based in Dallas, holds the Chartered Retirement Plans
Specialist and Accredited Retirement Plan Consultant professional
designations.
– Great-West Retirement Services, Greenwood Village, Colo., a unit of
Power Corp. of Canada, Montreal, has hired Daniel Friel to be a third-party
administrator relationship manager for the East region,
Friel, who is based in Boston, previously was a relationship manager
in institutional sales with Daily Access Corp., Mobile, Ala.
– Professional Capital Services L.L.C., Philadelphia, a retirement
plan recordkeeping service, has hired John Resnick to be director of advisor
development.
Resnick has been and will continue to be director of advisor development for
The Advisor Lab L.L.C., Philadelphia, a technology and training firm.
– Allison Bell