Allianz Life Announces New Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Healthcare Risk Management Division.MINNEAPOLIS -- Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. (Allianz Life(R)) today announced the appointment of Carl Adamek to Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Allianz Healthcare Risk Management. In this role, Adamek reports to the division's senior vice president, Dave Sipprell, and is accountable for overseeing the division's sales, marketing, and product development. Adamek joins the company's senior management team and will be directly involved with all aspects of the company's business including strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. and identifying viable markets. He will contribute his expertise to the development of innovative products and services that meet the needs of the healthcare and excess of loss markets. "We have experienced rapid growth in the last three years by expanding distribution and entering new markets," noted Dave Sipprell. "Hiring Carl reflects our commitment to invest in the infrastructure to fuel our growth and move the business into the top tier of our industry." Prior to joining Allianz Life, Adamek was employed with Pearl & Associates, Ltd., a national distributor of employee benefits and health products. As the executive vice president and managing director of the organization's Affinity Group A special interest group. This is a marketing term for a group of people with similar interests. Business, he was accountable for overall management of the affinity and employer benefits programs including management of a captive sales force, independent producers and an account management team. The employer benefits and affinity group business lines represented over 200 group customers, accounting for more than 100,000 insureds. Adamek is not entirely new to Allianz Life. He was previously employed with the former Group Marketing and Mass Marketing divisions. "I'm looking forward to rejoining Allianz Life for many reasons, including the company's firm commitment to providing the highest quality products and services to the U.S. healthcare U.S. Healthcare is a now-defunct healthcare company. The logo had an apple. The merger with Aetna In 1996, the company merged with Aetna, calling it Aetna U.S. Healthcare. The U.S. Healthcare apple logo was next to the Aetna name, and U.S. Healthcare under it. U.S. marketplace, and the new opportunities that exist given the division's significant growth," said Carl Adamek. Adamek holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of North Dakota North Dakota, state in the N central United States. It is bordered by Minnesota, across the Red River of the North (E), South Dakota (S), Montana (W), and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba (N). . He is the past chairman of the Professional Insurance Marketing Association and a current member of the Direct Marketing Association. About Allianz Healthcare Risk Management(TM) Allianz Healthcare Risk Management, a division of Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, provides Excess of Loss products for catastrophic medical claims to HMOs, provider organizations, insurance companies, and employers who self-fund their employee benefits plans. HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, Reinsurance The contract made between an insurance company and a third party to protect the insurance company from losses. The contract provides for the third party to pay for the loss sustained by the insurance company when the company makes a payment on the original contract. , Provider Excess, and Medical Excess products and services are distributed directly and through select producer relationships. Employer Stop Loss coverage is distributed to employer groups employer group Association of employers Managed care An entity with a current group benefits agreement in effect with a health plan to provide covered health care services to its employee-subscribers and eligible dependents. through HMOs, third party administrators, regional, and national producers. About Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (Allianz Life) is a leading provider of fixed and variable annuities Variable annuities Investment contracts whose issuer pays a periodic amount linked to the investment performance of an underlying portfolio. and life policies, as well as long term care products, in the U.S. Allianz Life is also a major provider of health excess of loss services. Allianz Life is one of the primary companies of the Allianz Group - the third largest public financial company in the world (Wall Street Journal, September 21, 2003). Allianz Group is represented with 700 subsidiaries in over 70 countries around the globe, and employs 180,000 people worldwide. Founded in 1896, Allianz Life is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota “Minneapolis” redirects here. For other uses, see Minneapolis (disambiguation). Minneapolis (pronounced IPA: /ˌmɪniˈæpəlɪs/) is the largest city in the U.S. . |
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