Experience

Athene

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chief Product Officer

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  West Des Moines, Iowa, United States Executive leader responsible for all aspects of product management across a variety of organic channels at Athene. Responsibilities span a variety of product lines including retail annuities, pension group annuities, funding agreements and flow reinsurance. Drive product development for the retail channel by managing the expanding product development pipeline to enable growth in emerging product and channel opportunities. Collaborate with marketing and sales to monitor the… Show more Executive leader responsible for all aspects of product management across a variety of organic channels at Athene. Responsibilities span a variety of product lines including retail annuities, pension group annuities, funding agreements and flow reinsurance. Drive product development for the retail channel by managing the expanding product development pipeline to enable growth in emerging product and channel opportunities. Collaborate with marketing and sales to monitor the competitive landscape and innovate new products. Oversee experience studies and organic pricing, and work to integrate those teams across multiple locations. Encourage accountability across teams with a focus on: • Product development: Work across legal, sales and marketing teams to generate innovative product ideas for the market. • Product pricing: Develop and maintain pricing methodology to ensure that Athene makes an adequate return for the assumed risks. • Product management: Develop actuarial assumptions, manage pricing and guide institutional project management. • Product lifecycle: Guide products to market from ideation to execution to marketplace sales.

• Senior Vice President, Head of Product

  • Jan 2017 - Aug 2022

  West Des Moines, Iowa, United States Led product development for the retail channel. Designed, priced and managed product. Collaborated across teams on decisions concerning marketing, messaging and sales. Worked with marketing and sales teams throughout the entire product lifecycle. Also responsible for product illustration system, articulating the product for advisors and consumers to ensure clarity.

• Vice President, Product Management

  • Sep 2013 - Dec 2016

  West Des Moines, Iowa, United States Led team in ongoing product pricing, renewal rate setting, assumption development and renewal rate setting in support of growing fixed indexed annuity product line.



Aviva

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director, ERM and VP Product Management

  • 2009 - 2013

  West Des Moines, Iowa, United States Liability expert on risk management team responsible for developing and implementing risk management program to become compliant with Solvency II. Switch to product management team to pricing fixed indexed annuity product line.