Personnel Changes: Wisconsin, New York Life , Others

- National Planning Holdings Inc., Santa Monica, Calif., a broker-dealer arm of Jackson National Life Insurance Company, Lansing, Mich., has promoted Jim Miller to be senior vice president of operations.

Miller previously was president of National Planning’s SII Investments Inc. broker-dealer subsidiary.

National Planning also has promoted Todd Kinart, senior vice president of new business development at SII, to succeed Miller as president of the subsidiary.

Miller has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Wisconsin-Stout.

Kinart has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Jackson National is a unit of Prudential P.L.C., London.

- Lincoln National Corp., Philadelphia, has announced several executive changes.

The company has promoted James Ryan to senior vice president and head of relationship management for Lincoln Financial Distributors, from senior vice president and account executive in the independent planner channel at Lincoln Financial Distributors relationship management operation.

The company also has hired Amy Mathis to be a senior vice president and account executive in the distribution company’s relationship management operation.

Mathis previously was a senior vice president and senior account manager in a Boston-based asset management unit of Wachovia Corp., Charlotte, N.C.

Meanwhile, Lincoln National has hired 3 executives for its Lincoln employer markets group insurance operation, which includes operations acquired along with Jefferson-Pilot Corp., Greensboro, N.C.

Lincoln National has hired Timothy Bird to be assistant vice president of risk services at the employer markets group. Bird, who will work in the group’s Omaha office, previously was assistant director of PRISM Operations at Hartford Life Insurance Company, a unit of Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Hartford.

The company has hired Paul Martin to be a vice president in the group’s employee care center services operation.

Martin, who will work in Omaha, previously was site head of the disability service center at Aetna Inc., Hartford.

Lincoln National also has hired Edie Moore to be an assistant vice president in the Atlanta disability care center.

Moore, who will work in Atlanta, previously was a vice president in the claims operation at Amerigroup Corp., Virginia Beach, Va.

- LifeSecure Insurance Company, Brighton, Mich., a long term care insurance unit of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan, Detroit, has promoted Brian Vestergaard to vice president of sales and marketing and hired Graham Smith to be the company’s director of sales and marketing.

Vestergaard has been director of sales and marketing at LifeSecure since 1995.

Vestergaard has 2 bachelor’s degrees from Purdue University and a master’s degree in international management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Smith previously was director of marketing and development at Care choices, Farmington Hills, Mich., a health maintenance organization plan.

Smith has a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University and a master’s degree in business from Oakland University in Rochester, Mich.

- Diversified Investment Advisors Inc. New York, a company that advises retirement plans on investments, has hired Dan Brennan to be vice president of Taft-Hartley plan sales.

Brennan previously sold Taft-Hartley plans at a unit of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Springfield, Mass.

Brennan has a bachelor’s degree in finance from Providence College and a master’s degree in finance from Fordham University.

- Trion Group Inc., King of Prussia, Pa., has hired Robert Shestack to be national practice leader for voluntary benefits.

Shestack previously was senior vice president of strategic development at Univers Workplace Benefits, Hammonton, N.J.

- HessMorganHouse L.L.C., Princeton, N.J., a life insurance consulting firm, has hired Andrea Katz to be president of a new HMH Communications consulting arm.

Katz previously worked for the consulting arm of Aon Corp., Chicago.