Doug Wolff to Succeed Mike Kiley as Security Benefit CEO
What You Need to Know
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Security Benefit Corp. is making a change at the top.
The Topeka, Kansas-based annuity issuer says Mike Kiley, the chairman and CEO, will pass the CEO title to Doug Wolff in June.
Kiley is planning to continue to serve as the company’s chairman.
Wolff has been the president of the company’s Security Benefit Life arm since 2011.
Security Benefit was founded in 1892. Guggenheim Partners, a private equity firm, acquired the company in 2010, in the wake of the 2007-2009 Great Recession.
Guggenheim brought Kiley in to turn the company around, and Kiley hired Wolff.
While Kiley was the CEO, Security Benefit worked to be an innovator in the annuity market. The company was the first to use custom index account options in non-variable indexed annuities, and it was one of the first companies to offer fee-based annuities through RIAs.
The number of employees increased to about 2,000, from 500 in 2010.
Assets under management increased to $50 billion, from $13 billion, over that same period.
Eldridge Industries, an investment firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut, acquired control of Guggenheim in 2017.
Wolff said in a comment that he has confidence in the people Security Benefit has in place and plans to continue the company’s trajectory of growth.
Transamerica
Transamerica — a Baltimore-based arm of Aegon ——has hired Jamie Ohl to be president of its individual solutions division and a member of the Transamerica management board.
Ohl will take over from Blake Bostwick.
She will lead all aspects of Transamerica’s individual life and annuity business lines, including wholesale and retail distribution for life insurance, annuities and mutual funds.
Ohl was previously the president of Workplace Solutions at Lincoln Financial Group. She oversaw the company’s retirement plan services and group protection benefits businesses.
