Personnel Changes: New York Life, AMS

A large mutual insurer has promoted 2 executives.

New York Life Insurance Company, New York, has promoted John O’Gara and Nicholas Pasyanos to vice president in the company’s individual life insurance department.

O’Gara, who now manages the life consultant team, previously was a regional manager for life product sales. He has a bachelor’s degree in business and finance from Iona College.

Pasyanos, now the lead pricing actuary, has been pricing immediate and deferred annuity products. He has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics from the State University of New York at Binghamton.