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Keith McDonagh

Keith McDonagh

Head of Institutional Solutions

MassMutual

Keith McDonagh is the Head of MassMutual’s Institutional Solutions businesses. These businesses involve the design and delivery of solutions for companies seeking to manage the risks associated with pension liabilities, retirement solutions, financial returns, protection needs, and increased employee benefit costs. The solutions include pension risk transfer, defined benefit, bank owned life insurance/corporate owned life insurance (BOLI/COLI), stable value investments, mutual fund investments, investment only solutions, medium term notes and guaranteed investment contracts. With more than 25 years of financial services industry experience, he has held a variety of senior leadership roles in domestic and international businesses across the insurance, investment and banking sectors. Keith earned his Bachelor of Science from Boston College and his Masters of Business Administration from the University of Connecticut. He also holds several industry certifications and regularly provides insight on industry developments.

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Michael Dunn

Michael S. Dunn

Head of Institutional Insurance

MassMutual

Michael Dunn is the Head of Institutional Insurance for MassMutual’s Institutional Solutions business. He is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the bank-owned life insurance (BOLI) and corporate-owned life insurance (COLI) businesses. His more than 25 years of experience includes distribution relationship management and leading the sales, customer service and new business operations for both the BOLI and COLI products. Prior to joining MassMutual in 2005, he held a variety of leadership roles at CIGNA/Connecticut General Life Insurance Company. Michael earned his Bachelor of Arts degree with a dual major in Mathematics and German from Hamilton College and holds a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Connecticut in Finance and International Business.

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Sara Richman

Sara Richman

Head of Funding Agreements

MassMutual

Sara Richman leads MassMutual’s Funding Agreement businesses, overseeing the design and delivery of solutions for institutional customers seeking investment-grade returns and vehicles for municipal bond proceeds. In this role, she is responsible for the company’s FABN and FHLB programs, as well as related spread-lending solutions.

Prior to this role, Ms. Richman held a number of business leadership positions over 25 years in financial services. At MassMutual, she was Head of Institutional Solutions Finance, leading the strategic financial management of the Institutional Solutions and Worksite businesses. Ms. Richman has also held several senior financial and business leadership roles related to MassMutual’s Workplace Solutions business, including roles within the Business Transformation and Product Pricing teams. Prior to joining MassMutual, she served in Product Strategy & Development roles at Great-West Financial.

Ms. Richman received her Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science from the University of Iowa. She is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

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Ian Cahill

Ian Cahill

Head of Pension Risk Transfer

MassMutual

Ian Cahill is the Head of Pension Risk Transfer for the MassMutual Institutional Solutions line of business. Prior to his current role, Ian was responsible for the Pension Risk Transfer pricing and underwriting team at MassMutual, and has held roles in retail and institutional annuity pricing, Annuity Purchase Consulting, Variable Annuity Hedging, and Financial Planning & Analysis.

Ian earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Actuarial Mathematics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and he is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, Member of the American Academy of Actuaries, and a Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst.

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Aruna Hobbs

Aruna Hobbs

Head of Institutional Investments

MassMutual

Aruna Hobbs is Head of Institutional Investments responsible for overseeing the growth and overall management of Stable Value Investments and the award-winning family of MassMutual Funds offered on external recordkeeping platforms. Joining MassMutual in 2014, she brings almost 25 years of knowledge and expertise managing investment related businesses in leadership roles overseeing strategic client relationships, sales and distribution, product development, P&L, asset liability risk management, delivering a broad spectrum of investment and stable value solutions to the institutional marketplace.

Aruna earned a Master of Science degree in Economics from Oklahoma State University and a graduate degree from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, India. She served as a prior Board Member and Chair of an Executive Committee of the Stable Value Investment Association for several terms.

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