Randall H. Talbot
President and Chief Executive Officer
Randy Talbot is chief executive officer and president of Symetra Financial Corp. and its insurance subsidiaries, as well as a member of the board of directors.
Talbot joined Symetra Financial in 1998 and has since guided it to a distribution channel-driven sales culture focused on selling life insurance, group medical products, retirement plans and annuities through independent distributors.
Talbot began his financial services career at Talbot Financial Corp., in Albuquerque, N.M., where during his 23-year tenure he marketed a broad spectrum of insurance and investment products, including annuities, personal and commercial lines, group, health, surety and life insurance. Talbot was one of the first in the industry to bring together insurance companies and financial institutions for the purpose of selling insurance products.
In addition to being on the board of Symetra Financial Corp., Talbot is on the board of the Performing Arts Center Eastside and the Washington Roundtable, a nonprofit public policy organization affecting positive change on critical policy issues in Washington state. In March 2008, he was appointed to the board of Concur, a leading provider of on-demand Employee Spend Management services.
Talbot also serves on the Directors Council for the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) and is a member of the Initiative for Global Development, a national network of corporate leaders with a business approach to abject poverty. He is a past board member of ACLI, ShareBuilder Corp., Pacific Northwest Ballet and Forest Ridge School, among others. Talbot was named Washington CEO magazine’s “CEO of Year” in 2007.
Talbot graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Arizona State University.