Mike Hesse Named Chief Life Underwriter for MMSD

Our underwriting team plays an important role in collaborating with you to enable families to protect their loved ones. 

To improve our underwriting operating model, we are establishing two new roles to delineate between production and governance/risk management.

Life Underwriting
We are creating two new roles: Chief Life Underwriter – MMSD/Direct to Consumer (DTC) and Chief Life Underwriter – MMFA. The leaders in these roles will report to Tricia Walker, Head of Digital Operations, and will be responsible for all day-to-day life underwriting operations and production for their respective channels, including all escalations, all authority limit decisions and oversight of all of our large cases.

Mike Hesse will take on this new role of Chief Life Underwriter – MMSD/Direct to Consumer (DTC). Previously, Mike was Head of MMSD Underwriting, and he brings decades of experience with both direct carriers and reinsurers.

Governance and Risk Management
We have also created a new Head of Life Underwriting – Risk Management role, responsible for our underwriting risk-management framework and governance, including our non-medical guidelines. This leader will be responsible for identifying potential new underwriting programs to drive top line sales and producer/customer satisfaction. We are looking to fill this role as soon as possible.

We realize you have a choice when working with carriers and we appreciate the opportunity to help you grow your business.