Dan McMillan (Credit: The Standard)
StanCorp Financial Group Inc. has promoted Dan McMillan to executive vice president.
The Standard is a Portland, Oregon-based subsidiary of Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company of Tokyo, and the parent of Standard Insurance Company.
McMillan has been vice president, insurance services group, for Standard Insurance Company and The Standard Life Insurance Company of New York. He manages the companies' individual insurance operations.
McMillan will continue to manage the insurance services group, and he will also oversee the company's asset management group.
The asset management group includes The Standard's Investment division, StanCorp Mortgage Investors, StanCorp Real Estate, and the company's retirement plans and individual annuities businesses.
Scott Hibbs, The Standard's chief investment officer, has been running the asset management group. He will continue to lead that group and will report to McMillan, The Standard says.
McMillman has a bachelor's degree from Linfield College. He holds the Associate Life & Health Claims professional designation.
He serves on the Group Insurance Executive Council at the American Council of Life Insurers and the board of Lines for Life. He previously served on the board of the Council for Disability Awareness.
In other personnel moves news:
Unqork, New York, has hired Dan Murphy to be its first chief financial officer.
Unqork runs a system that life insurers and other companies can use to make their computers do new things without knowing how to use computer programming languages, such as C, C++ or Java.
The company says it now has about 120 employees and has hired 81 people since March.
Murphy previously was a CFO and chief operating officer at Namely, a company that provides human resources services through web.
