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Boston, Ma, Us

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Serve as an advisor to Brewer Lane Ventures (BLV) management to support their investment activities. BLV is a venture capital company focused on insurtech and fintech opportunities. It invests in ambitious companies creating the future of financial services across insurance, asset and wealth management, banking and lending, and payments. In addition to investing in exceptional entrepreneurs, BLV shares its industry knowledge and relationships to support company founders in building market-leading fintech and insurtech companies.

New York, Us

Serve as an advisor to Brella’s Board and management team. Brella’s mission is to build a world where health hardship doesn't mean financial hardship. Millions of Americans face financial hardship because of a serious health issue. Brella provides financial support to help people on their way to recovery. For employers and their employees, Brella provides supplemental insurance which provides more comprehensive coverage with a single, simpler product which pays quickly and easily for moderate, severe and catastrophic medical conditions.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Serve as an advisor to the Owl.co Board and management team. Owl.co specializes in customer insight engines that help financial institutions make better decisions. By connecting to tens of thousands of trusted data sources, Owl is able to instantly aggregate and synthesize millions of data points to learn more about customers and entities. Using this core technology, Owl offers three enterprise products revolving around: automated customer onboarding, enhanced due diligence, and advanced fraud detection. These solutions allow highly-regulated institutions to use disruptive technologies without sacrificing security or integrity of sensitive data. All this is done using zero-knowledge protocol, which basically means no one at Owl can see or access any sensitive customer data. Owl.co is already working with leading organizations like Toronto Stock Exchange, Fairstone and top 10 banks / insurers across North America

New York, Ny, Us

Serve as an advisor to the Chiefofstaff.com Board and management team. Chiefofstaff.com offers collaborative strategy execution software for enterprise executives. The technology provides a real-time, crowd sourced diagnostic view of strategic plan and operating plan implementation across all businesses or subsidiaries with the direct accountability of front line managers. By creating a social network focused on plan execution, it engages the business team and empowers them to handle complexity while staying aligned with and focused on priorities.

Brant Point provided management advisory support and expertise to help insurance companies retool strategies, drive growth, and improve profitability. With experience in managing change, building teams, and achieving results, Brant Point supported companies in their efforts to innovate and to strengthen their insurance business models.

Boston, Ma, Us

Serve as an advisor and provide consulting support to management. New Vantage Partners has served as a trusted advisor and consultant to Fortune 1000 business and technology leaders since 2001. It is the preeminent boutique management consulting firm focused exclusively on leading data-driven business transformation. its clients include leading financial services, healthcare, life sciences and media companies. The firm is differentiated in being a team comprised exclusively of senior industry leaders with decades of experience leading data-driven initiatives for blue-chip companies. New Vantage thought leadership perspectives appear in leading publications, including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review and the MIT Sloan Managment Review.

Radnor, Pa, Us

Serve as the Interim Leader of Workplace Solutions consisting of the Group Protection (GP) and Retirement Plan Services (RPS) businesses while the recruitment of a new leader was underway. This role was primarily responsible for the execution and implementation of the business strategies and plans of GP and RPS.

Radnor, Pa, Us

Led a $4 billion plus revenue employee benefits benefits business where he was responsible for the strategy, operations, distribution, and P&L for a fast growing and successful market leader. Initially he was charged to turnaround the profit trajectory of the business. After significant restructuring, he successfully returned the business to balanced profit and revenue growth while positioning it to successfully capitalize on the expanding and profitable employee benefits marketplace. In 2018, he led the successful acquisition of Liberty Mutual's benefit business which doubled revenue thus significantly Increasing scale, expanded market reach to employers of all sizes and created one of the largest disability and leave management product lines in the industry. This new, more powerful benefits business was then positioned to continue its run of profitable growth with market leading products, capabilities and services.

New York, New York, Us

Established more operational and financial discipline for the international business portfolio, improved results, and designed and implemented a new international strategy. Reported to the Chairman and CEO and responsible for leading a $2 billion plus portfolio of businesses in eight countries (10% of NYL total revenues) with more than 8,000 employees and 90,000 agents. Subsidiaries in Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mexico and joint ventures with foreign partners in India, China, Thailand and Argentina. Served as the senior New York Life executive on the Boards of the India, China, and Mexico entities.• Quickly established more disciplined sales channel, product, pricing, compliance, and cost control management.• Recruited and assigned new talent to key positions throughout the business portfolio.• Created more performance accountability and compensation alignment to key objectives.• Significantly enhanced the career distribution channel in Mexico by investing in a new managing partner model.• Significantly improved profitability despite the global financial crisis and portfolio restructuring. Increased annual profits for the four years ending 2011 to $338 million versus $61 million for the four years ending 2007.• Supported a strategic review and restructuring that resulted in a reduction of the company’s international footprint. Divested China, Korea, Hong Kong, and Thailand operations in the first quarter of 2011 to three different buyers. Also divested India and explored strategic options for Taiwan. Restructured holding company costs, reducing the annual expense run rate by more than $60 million.Led the transformation to NYL Enterprises with a business portfolio consisting of the remaining international business and two domestic businesses (AARP Direct Distribution Life Insurance, and Group Membership Association) with combined revenues of more than $4 billion.

Hartford, Ct, Us

Led the Group Benefits Division’s operations and enhanced business performance. Responsible for all aspects of this 3,300 employee business including full P&L, distribution, product, underwriting, claims, and service.• Doubled premium revenue (to $4.1 billion) while tripling net after tax profit (to $340 million) over five years• Re-engineered the pricing and underwriting processes to improve sales and profit results.• Fully integrated business operations to eliminate internal market silos and improve the sharing of knowledge and processes. This created more seamless, consistent, and effective broker / customer service / sales interactions.• Introduced a significant cultural shift through the use of more discipline and performance metrics that improved employee engagement and accountability, creating a more focused and cohesive team.• Invested in the claim management function’s infrastructure to enhance risk management.• Revised sales compensation programs to better align with business objectives within a new compliance regime.• Led the successful 2003 acquisition and rapid integration of CNA’s group business, increasing the size of The Hartford’s Group Benefits Division by 50%.• Significantly advanced The Hartford’s competitive market share position, becoming #1 in group disability and #3 in group life sales by 2006.

Springfield, Massachusetts, Us

Revitalized the individual disability income business following a difficult merger (with Connecticut Mutual) in the prior year.• Developed and implemented a restructured, innovative business plan, improved execution, and created an energized, more entrepreneurial team.• Directed a comprehensive integration and re-engineering effort to position the business to grow and improve profitability, with a focus on people, process and technology.• Dramatically enhanced the quality of underwriting and claims risk management, service, product, and distribution.• Improved GAAP financial reporting and management information. Implemented a disciplined monitoring process.• Reversed a five year trend of declining sales. Achieved compound growth of 15% per year. Improved market share from fifth to second in the industry.• Over four years, tripled pre-tax profit to $100 million with return on equity in excess of 15%.

Built a strong track record of success as a P&L leader and financial executive.Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (1995-1997)• Integrated the individual and group brokerage distribution channels to better capitalize on market opportunities• Led, along with the CEO, the integration following the acquisition of Paul Revere by Provident Life & Accident. Executive Vice President and Chief Actuary (1987-1995)Directed business plans and responsible for overall P&L of the individual life, annuities, reinsurance, and Canadian lines of business. Developed broad and deep expertise in the individual and group disability businesses. Responsible for all actuarial functions for all lines of business.• Successfully marketed 7.5 million company shares as a member of three person “road show” team (along with President and CFO) for the Paul Revere Corp. IPO in over 20 cities in North America and Europe (1993).• Led a strategic review of the annuities business, resulting in an increased investment in new sales while maintaining after-tax return on equity in excess of 20%.• Revitalized Canadian operations which led to a doubling of pre-tax profits to $32 million from 1992 to 1994. Vice President and Actuary (1983-1987)Second Vice President/Actuary (1974-1983)

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