Protective Life Corporation Unifies Protection & Retirement Divisions
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As Protective continues its business transformation, unifying these divisions will enable the company to better serve customers and distributors, capitalize on cross-divisional opportunities, prioritize and align resources, and streamline operations – all with a focus on enabling growth. The newly combined division will continue its focus on helping people achieve financial security through both protection-focused insurance products and the products that protect and grow retirement assets, guaranteed income and efficient wealth transfer.
“Bringing these businesses together as one operating unit will enable us to more effectively create scale while also improving focus in our product and distribution strategy,” said
Throughout his 20-year career with Protective, Seurkamp has worked in various positions throughout the company’s retail life and annuity business, most recently serving as SVP, President of the Retirement Division. In this role, he led all aspects of the division, including product development, sales and operations. Moving forward, he’ll expand these responsibilities across the combined division. Seurkamp will continue to report to Harrison.
Wagner, who joined Protective in 2011, most recently served as SVP, Chief Distribution Officer for Protective’s Retirement Division. With previous roles leading external and internal sales teams for both protection and retirement, Wagner brings a wealth of experience that will serve him well as he leads the distribution strategy for the unified division.
Byrd, who joined Protective in 2009, most recently served as SVP, Operations, primarily focused on the Protection Division. Throughout his career with Protective, Byrd has worked in numerous operations roles, building extensive experience and expertise in customer experience, process improvement and automation, making him well positioned to lead this critical team. Both Byrd and Wagner will report to Seurkamp.
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Protective has helped people achieve protection and security in their lives for 117 years. Through its subsidiaries, Protective offers life insurance, annuity and asset protection solutions and is helping more than 14.4 million people protect what matters most. Protective’s more than 3,800 employees put people first and deliver on the company’s promises to customers, partners, colleagues and communities - because we’re all protectors. With a long-term focus, financial stability and commitment to doing the right thing,
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