Tommie Brooks Named Symetra Financials Chief Actuary
Bellevue, Wash. — (March 26, 2007) — Symetra Financial announced today that Tommie Brooks has been named vice president and chief actuary. Brooks, who has been with the company for 15 years, will be the senior manager in charge of actuarial functions and guide the company’s product pricing strategies, insurance risk analysis and reserving.
Brooks will assume leadership of the actuarial division from Margaret Meister, Symetra’s chief financial officer and prior chief actuary.
Previously, Brooks served as managing actuary for Symetra’s life insurance subsidiaries. Brooks began his career with Symetra in 1992 as an actuarial student in the Retirement Services division, and later went on to hold several managerial positions with actuarial teams throughout the company. He attained the Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in 1998 and is a graduate of Central Washington University.
“I am very honored to be named to this position,” said Brooks. “Having worked in almost every actuarial unit here at Symetra, I know first-hand the strong talent on our team and I’m excited to continue working closely with my colleagues to build on our success.”
“With Tommie’s history of pricing Symetra’s products and managing multiple areas of our actuarial staff, he has gained a tremendous amount of experience and a solid understanding of our business,” said Chief Financial Officer Margaret Meister. “This is a well-deserved promotion and I am confident he will serve our company well as chief actuary.”
About Symetra Financial
Symetra Financial is a family of companies with a half-century of experience providing retirement plans, employee benefits, annuities and life insurance through independent advisors and agents nationwide. The company has more than $20 billion in assets
1 and is owned by an investor group led by White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd. and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. For more information, visit Symetra Financial’s website at
www.symetra.com.
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1 Source: Total GAAP assets per financial statements of December 31, 2006.
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