The individual advisory boards offer insights on the business challenges facing companies to help organizations better understand and leverage different aspects of the association’s member benefits program. The executives chosen to join the four advisory boards are leaders in their respective fields who have agreed to share their expertise and experience to help shape the future focus for LIMRA and LOMA.
Life Insurance Advisory Board Gallery
Dennis Martin
(Chair)
President, Individual Life and Financial Services, OneAmerica Financial
Dawn Behnke
(Vice-Chair)
Executive Vice President, Consumer Markets,
Pacific Life
Ryan Beasley
Executive Vice President, Individual Division, Ameritas
Jerry Blair
President, Sammons Life Insurance Group, Sammons Financial Group
John H. Bultema
President & Chief Executive Officer, Columbus Life Insurance Company and The Lafayette Life Insurance Company, part of Western & Southern Financial Group
John Carroll
Senior Vice President and Head of Insurance and Annuities – U.S. and Canada, LIMRA and LOMA
Kathryn Cox
Senior Vice President & President of the Protection Division, Protective Life Corporation
Andrew DeMarco
Head of Individual Life Solutions, Transamerica Life Insurance Company
Neil Drzewiecki
Head of Life Products, MassMutual
Kristin Ferguson
Senior Vice President, Individual Solutions, Securian Financial Group
Michael Ferik
Senior Vice President, Head of Individual Markets, Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Scott Goldberg
President, Consumer Division, CNO Financial Group
Jason Handal
Vice President, Risk Products, Northwestern Mutual
Thomas Harris
President, Life Insurance and Annuities, Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company
Tim Heslin
President, Life Insurance, Corebridge Financial
Salene Hitchcock-Gear
President, Individual Life Insurance, Prudential
Mark Holweger
President and Chief Executive Officer, Legal & General America
Hector Martinez
Head of Life Insurance, Equitable
Sarah Mineau
Vice President, Life/Health & Investment Planning Services, State Farm
Cathy Preston
Vice President, Individual Markets, RBC
Achim Schwetlick
Executive Vice President and Head of National Life Group’s Customer Innovation Group, National Life Group
Steve Sanders
Senior Vice President and Head of Protection Segment, F&G Annuities & Life
Holly Snyder
President, Nationwide Life, Nationwide Financial
Steve Sperka
Vice President, Solutions Design Implementation and Support, Thrivent
Mindi Work
Executive Vice President, Life Division and Emerging Solutions, Symetra Financial Corporation