Dan Sheehan to Succeed Groh as Genworth CFO: Personnel Moves

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Genworth Financial says it's naming Dan Sheehan to succeed Kelly Groh as the company's chief financial officer.

Groh says she's leaving to move to California, to be closer to her parents. She's been Genworth's CFO for five years.

Sheehan has been the Richmond, Virginia-based company's chief investment officer since 2012.

Sheehan has a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard University and a master's degree in finance from Babson College.

He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst professional designation.

Sheehan started out as an auditor for the Massachusetts Laborers Benefit Fund.

He then worked for a Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts-based arm of Sun Life Financial arm.

He began working for what is now Genworth, what was then part of General Electric, in 1997, as a risk manager for real estate investments.

In related news, Genworth is naming Brian Haendiges to become Genworth's chief risk officer. Groh has been the interim chief risk officer since January.

Haendiges previously was senior vice president of U.S. pricing and product management at MassMutual. He oversaw pricing and profitability for MassMutual's U.S. portfolio, including life insurance, disability, long term care, annuity and retirement products.

Haendiges has a bachelor's degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries.

In other personnel moves news:

Equitable, New York, has hired Connie Weaver to be chief marketing officer (CMO).

Weaver previously was the CMO for TIAA.

Before that, she was the CMO at The Hartford, and she also has served as the CMO at AT&T.

Weaver has a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland.

She serves on the boards of the University of Connecticut Foundation, the Connecticut Science Center, and the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts.

Penn Mutual, Horsham, Pennsylvania, has named Ati Bailey to be the company's chief audit executive.

Bailey previously was an assistant vice president for internal audit.

He has a bachelor's degree in computer science from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

He holds the Certified Information Systems Auditor professional designation.

Farm Bureau Financial Services — an arm of FBL Financial Group, West Des Moines, Iowa — has hired Angelina Dietz-Robinson to be a wealth management advisor.

Dietz-Robinson has $172 million in assets under management.

She will be based in Farm Bureau's office in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

Before she joined Farm Bureau, she worked as an advisor for State Bank, Powell Financial Group, and TIAA.

She has a bachelor's degree in business from the University of North Iowa, and she has been the mayor Nashua, Iowa.

She is the current president of the United States Women of Today organization.

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