Aflac has picked Virgil Miller to succeed Teresa White as president of its Aflac U.S. unit in January 2023.
White plans to retire in March.
Miller has been the deputy president at Aflac U.S. since earlier this year. Before that, he held titles such as chief administrative officer and chief operating officer for Aflac U.S.
Aflac
Aflac is a Columbus, Georgia-based insurer best known in the United States for the Aflac Duck, and for individual life, health and disability products sold at the worksite.
The company also has large cancer and medical insurance operations in Japan.
Virgil Miller
Miller has been working for Aflac since 2004. On his way up through the ranks, he served as president of the Aflac individual benefits division. He also has been vice president of client services.
Miller has a bachelor's degree in accounting from Georgia College, a master's degree in business from Wesleyan College and a doctorate from Gammon Theological Seminary.
He served as a U.S. Marine and is a veteran of Operation Desert Storm.
He serves on the board of America's Health Insurance Plans. He was named one of Columbia Business Monthly's 50 Most Influential Individuals for 2019 and to Savoy's list of 2020 Most Influential Black Executives in Corporate America.
Security Benefit
Security Benefit — a Topeka, Kansas-based insurer — has hired Michael Dolaher to be director, financial institutions.
Dolaher will work to distribute fixed, non-variable indexed and variable annuity products through banks and other financial institutions.
He previously was a strategic relationship manager at Simon Markets.
He has worked in sales and relationship management roles at The New England Life Insurance Company, Fidelity Investments, Sun Life U.S., Genworth and Pacific Life. He also spent a year working as a national accounts manager at Security Benefit.