Pannell will manage and develop relationships with potential
acquisition candidates.

Pannell has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from
California State University and a master’s degree in business administration
from Southern Methodist University.

In other personnel news:

– New York Life Insurance Company, New York, has
hired Chris Ashe to be senior vice president and chief financial officer of
retirement income security.

Ashe previously was vice president of financial and strategic planning
at Prudential Annuities, a division of Prudential Financial Inc., Newark, N.J.
(NYSE:PRU).

Ashe has a bachelor’s degree in business management from Rutgers
University and a master’s degree from Georgia State University. He holds a
Chartered Financial Analyst professional designation.

– Liberty Life Insurance Company, Greenville, S.C.,
a unit of Athene Holding Ltd., has hired Alison Denis to be director of
marketing.

Denis, who will work in the company’s Wilmington, Del., office, founded
and led Edgehill Consulting L.L.C., Princeton, N.J., a marketing consulting
firm.

Denis has a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College and a master’s degree
from New York University.

– Forethought Financial Group, Indianapolis, has
hired Brenda Gempler to be senior vice president of national
accounts.

Gempler, who will be based in Minneapolis, previously was managing
director for the bank channel at Transamerica Capital, San Francisco, a unit of
AEGON N.V., The Hague, Netherlands.

Gempler has a bachelor’s degree in business and marketing from the
University of St. Thomas and holds the Certified Financial Planner professional
designation.

– Alliant Insurance Services Inc., Newport Beach,
C.A., has hired Peter Rosky to be assistant vice president of the company’s New
York office.

Rosky previously was a vice president in the Western Springs, Ill.,
office of USI.

Rosky has a bachelor’s degree in history from Montclair University,
Montclair, N.J.

– Alavere Health L.L.C., Washington, has named Dr.
Fiona Wilmot to be a vice president in the evidence-based medicine
practice.

Wilmot previously was the medical director at Blue Shield of
California, San Francisco.