AARP's Hansen Joins IMSA Board of Directors.

BETHESDA, Md. -- The Insurance Marketplace Standards Association (IMSA) is pleased to announce that AARP Group Executive Officer Christopher Hansen has joined the organization's Board of Directors.

"We are pleased to have Chris join IMSA's Board," said Timothy F. Kneeland, President of Life Investors Insurance Company of America, a member of the AEGON Group and IMSA Chairman. "He brings an important perspective to IMSA's work as the premier standards-setting organization for the life insurance marketplace.

"AARP is an important voice on issues affecting consumers and the financial services marketplace. We welcome his participation in IMSA's important work to promote a healthy competitive marketplace where consumers can make sound and appropriate decisions about their financial and insurance well being," Kneeland added.

"I am proud to serve on the Board of Directors of this important organization," Hansen said. "IMSA plays a critical role in developing and deploying standards. IMSA's work helps protect the interest of the nations' consumers."

Welcoming Hansen, IMSA President & CEO Brian Atchinson said, "The distinguished leaders representing many interests that serve on IMSA's Board of Directors provide valuable guidance and direction to IMSA. Thanks to the diversity of our Board, IMSA can better serve the marketplace - including consumers, companies and those selling the products - by ensuring that standards of conduct are high for the way that insurance products are marketed and sold to consumers."

Atchinson provided the following background on Hansen:

Christopher Hansen is AARP's Group Executive Officer for State and National Initiatives. His responsibilities include government relations, advocacy, management of AARP offices in every state, public outreach on key programs, and volunteer management and support. He assumed that position in mid-January 2003, after serving as the organization's Senior Managing Director of Government Relations and Advocacy since March 2002. Before coming to AARP, Mr. Hansen worked for 16 years for The Boeing Company as Senior Vice President, Government Relations. Prior to his work with Boeing, Hansen spent 11 years with General Dynamics, where he was Director of Government Relations Operations.

IMSA is a nonprofit, independent association and the premier standards-setting organization for the life insurance marketplace. Companies that qualify for IMSA membership commit to maintaining high ethical standards and to being fair, honest, and open in the way they advertise, sell and service life insurance, annuity products, and long-term care insurance in the individual market. For more information about IMSA and a list of IMSA-qualified companies, visit www.IMSAethics.org.