Lincoln Financial Group — a 116-year-old company with $380 billion in assets — has picked Ellen Cooper to succeed Dennis Glass as the president and CEO.
Glass, who has been Lincoln's CEO since 2007, plans to become the chairman in May 2022, following the company's next annual meeting.
Current Lincoln Chairman of the Board William Cunningham will stay on the board and serve as the lead independent director, the company said today.
Glass said in a statement that he's thrilled to see Cooper succeed him as CEO. "She is a gifted, experienced executive with a proven track record of success," Glass said.
Cooper said she looks forward to continue Lincoln Financial's long history of providing products that can help Americans plan, protect and invest.
Ellen Cooper
Cooper has been an executive vice president at Lincoln, the company's chief investment officer and the head of the annuity solutions group. She moved to Lincoln in 2012, after serving as the global head of insurance strategy at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
Earlier, she was chief risk officer at Aegon Americans. She got her start as an insurance consultant at Towers Perrin and Ernst & Young.
She has a bachelor's degree from Temple University and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst and Fellow of the Society of Actuaries professional designations.
Dennis Glass
Glass got his start in insurance at Northwestern Mutual and Protective Life. He began working for Jefferson Pilot in 1993, as that company's CFO, then became Lincoln's chief operating officer in 2006, when Lincoln acquired Jefferson Pilot.
