People & Places

WellPoint, Inc.announced a series of leadership appointments, effective September 1, 2005, including naming Marjorie W. Dorr to the post of executive vice president and chief strategy officer.

“As chief strategy officer, Marjorie will have a key role in ensuring that the transformational goals of our 2010 plan are realized,” said Larry C. Glasscock, president and CEO of WellPoint. “This will involve working with, and across, all business units to ensure that specific plans, deliverables and measurable objectives are in place in order to drive progress and achieve desired results. Marjorie’s overall industry knowledge and her deep interest in improving health care positions her well for this new role.”

Under Dorr’s leadership, the Northeast region membership grew from 800,000 to 2.6 million members. Additionally, all plans in the region maintained the highest rating of “Excellent” by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).

Dorr joined Anthem in 1991 as vice president of corporate finance and was later appointed chief financial officer of Anthem Casualty Insurance Group. She served as chief executive officer, president and director of Anthem Prescription Management from 1995 to 1998 where she was responsible for leading Anthem’s $500 million pharmacy benefit programs. Dorr will continue to be based in Connecticut.

In addition, Mark Boxer has been named president and CEO of WellPoint’s Consumer-Driven Health Plans, Enterprise Services, and Medicare Government Business. He most recently served as executive vice president for Strategy, Enterprise Operations and Medicare Services at WellPoint. During Boxer’s five years with the company, he has held the positions of senior vice president eCommerce, executive vice president and chief business development officer and chief information officer. He lives in Glastonbury, CT with his wife and two daughters.

Indianapolis, Ind.-based WellPoint is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and serves its members as the Blue Cross licensee for California; the Blue Cross and Blue Shield licensee for Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri (excluding 30 counties in the Kansas City area), Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Virginia (excluding the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.), Wisconsin; and through HealthLink and UniCare.

USBA (Uniformed Services Benefit Association) announced that Colonel Robin A. Snyder, USAF (Ret.) is joining the company as chief financial officer beginning September 1, 2005.

Snyder served more than 27 years in the United States Air Force as a senior-level officer. Most recently, he was deputy director for Capability Development at United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) at Offutt AFB in Nebraska.

USBA is a nonprofit organization based in Overland Park, Kan., providing a variety of low-cost group life insurance plans and other financial services to the active duty and retired military market as well as honorably discharged veterans, National Guard, Reserves and federal civilian employees.

Kelly Havinga of Hughes & Havinga Insurance Agency, Escanaba, Mich., has been named president of the Michigan Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA).

As president, Havinga will work with the board of directors and MAIA staff to develop policies in legislation, public relations, education, technology and marketing.

The Michigan Association of Insurance Agents is a statewide trade group that represents approximately 10,000 independent agents and industry employees.

InsurBanc, the financial services provider to independent insurance agents, has named David W. Tralka as its new president and chief executive officer. Tralka is replacing Michael Herlihy, who served as president since the bank’s founding in 2001. Herlihy left InsurBanc to pursue new opportunities, according to officials.

Tralka has more than 20 years experience in banking and financial services. Most recently, he was with Merrill Lynch where he served as chairman of Merrill Lynch Business Financial Services, serving 150,000 small and mid-sized business clients. In his tenure at Merrill Lynch, Tralka served in numerous senior management positions, including president of Merrill Lynch Bank and Trust and director of credit operations for small business lending.

AmerUs Group Co. has named Michael D. Boltz as executive vice president and chief information officer. Boltz will manage the company’s information technology division which supports the holding company, life insurance operations, annuity operations, and investment management. “Mike will be a strong addition to our executive management team. He is a visionary, strategic leader, and has an impressive record of innovation and proven results,” said Thomas C. Godlasky, president and chief operating officer of AmerUs Group.

Boltz holds a bachelor of arts degree in music from Indiana University and received his certification in information technology from the Chubb Institute of Computer Technology. Prior to joining AmerUs Group, Boltz was an executive with Charles Schwab Corporation in San Francisco for 13 years, most recently as vice president, capital markets, asset management products and services technology. Before joining Schwab, Boltz was in management with Merrill Lynch & Company, Inc. and Prudential-Bache Securities.

He served on the Securities Industry Association Technology Management Committee from 2001 through 2004 and on the Investment Company Institute Technology Advisory Committee from 2002 through 2004.

AmerUs Group Co., Des Moines, Iowa, markets individual life insurance and annuity products in the United States through subsidiaries including AmerUs Life Insurance Company, American Investors Life Insurance Company, Inc., Bankers Life Insurance Company of New York and Indianapolis Life Insurance Company. AmerUs Group’s total assets were $24.2 billion and shareholders’ equity totaled $1.7 billion.