Human Resources: MassMutual Retirement Services Continues Aggressive Expansion of its Third Party Distribution Sales

SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Dec. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Hugh O'Toole has joined the
MassMutual Retirement Services Division's institutional sales team as
corporate vice president, northeast division sales manager and national
nonprofit market leader. O'Toole was most recently employed by Principal
Financial Group.

Prior to joining Principal, O'Toole was a partner in Professional
Pensions, Inc., which was acquired by Principal Financial Group in 1999. As
part of the acquisition, O'Toole was named corporate vice president at
Principal with responsibility for growing the provider's nonprofit business.
He also developed a registered solution for all markets and created new
worksite solutions including an innovative, participant-centric business
model.

"Hugh O'Toole will play a key role in helping MassMutual to accelerate our
sales support efforts for third-party distribution channels in the northeast,
and will support our nonprofit solutions on a national level," says Bill
O'Grady, senior vice president and head of national sales and distribution for
MassMutual's Retirement Services Division. "He is highly regarded for his in-
depth expertise in the defined contribution and nonprofit markets, and we look
forward to leveraging Hugh's needs-based participant education model to
support the advisor's value proposition with existing and prospective
retirement plan clients," adds O'Grady.

O'Toole reports to Bill O'Grady and is based in MassMutual's Springfield,
Mass. headquarters. He can be contacted at hotoole[at]massmutual.com or (413)
744-4390.

Shefali Desai has been promoted from northeast division sales manager to
vice president of sales operations for MassMutual's Retirement Services
Division, reporting to Bill O'Grady. Desai brings more than 17 years of
retirement services experience to this newly-created role, where she will
oversee all of the financial and administrative functions of MassMutual's
entire third party distribution system, including the company's Career Agency
System and select network of Third Party Administrators.

Sean Milligan has joined MassMutual as managing director, third party
distribution sales in the Midwest region, where he will cover southern
Illinois and Tennessee, and will share coverage of the Chicago area with Chris
Kennedy, a seasoned retirement sales professional who joined MassMutual in
2006. Milligan joins MassMutual from Portfolio Consulting Group, Syracuse,
N.Y., where he served as director of sales and marketing. His broad industry
experience also includes sales roles with Transamerica Retirement Services and
Principal Financial Group. He reports to Evan Gray, division sales manager for
the Midwest region and can be reached at smilligan[at]massmutual.com.

Nelson Bonner has joined MassMutual as managing director, third party
distribution sales for the Pacific Northwest territory, specifically covering
the Oregon and Washington territories. He reports to Tanya Jones, division
sales manager, who also reports to Bill O'Grady. Bonner also joins MassMutual
from Principal Financial Group, where he spent more than 10 years in the
company's retirement services business. Bonner can be contacted at
nbonner[at]massmutual.com.

For more information about MassMutual Retirement Services, please call
(888) 626-4911.

About MassMutual

MassMutual's Retirement Services Division has been serving retirement
plans for more than 60 years. It offers a full range of products and services
for corporate, union, nonprofit and governmental employers' defined benefit,
defined contribution and nonqualified deferred compensation plans. It serves
approximately one million participants.

MassMutual Financial Group is a marketing name for Massachusetts Mutual
Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) [of which Retirement Services is a
division] and its affiliated companies and sales representatives. MassMutual
and its subsidiaries have more than $450 billion in assets under management at
year-end 2006. Assets under management include assets and certain external
investment funds managed by MassMutual's subsidiaries. Founded in 1851,
MassMutual is a mutually owned financial protection, accumulation and income
management company headquartered in Springfield, Mass. MassMutual's major
affiliates include: OppenheimerFunds, Inc.; Babson Capital Management LLC;
Baring Asset Management Limited; Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers LLC; MML
Investors Services, Inc., member FINRA and SIPC (www.finra.org and
www.sipc.org); MassMutual International LLC; and The MassMutual Trust Company,
FSB. MassMutual is on the Internet at www.massmutual.com.