(Des Moines, Iowa) - The Principal Financial Group ® announces Chris Calos has been named vice president of the company´s National Accounts Division. Calos responsibilities will include overseeing the self-funded health insurance business. "A strong management team is essential as The Principal focuses on improving member health by working with our customers to implement innovative health and wellness strategies," said Carey Jury, senior vice president of the Health Division for the Principal Financial Group. "Chris brings a long history in the employee benefits marketplace and we welcome his leadership as we continue to expand our product offerings in the National Accounts Division."
Calos joins the Principal Financial Group after 14 years as senior vice president of the group benefits division of Protective Life and most recently at AIG where he was the executive vice president of Employee Benefit Solutions. With more than 20 years in the financial services industry, Calos has held a number of positions covering sales, distribution, product development and marketing.
About the Principal Financial Group
The Principal Financial Group (The Principal ®) [1] is a leader in offering businesses, individuals and institutional clients a wide range of financial products and services, including retirement and investment services, life and health insurance, and banking through its diverse family of financial services companies. A member of the Fortune 500, the Principal Financial Group has $206.0 billion in assets under management [2]and serves some 16.3 million customers worldwide from offices in Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America and the United States. Principal Financial Group, Inc. is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol PFG. For more information, visit www.principal.com.