Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company has named Elizabeth Ward senior vice president and chief enterprise risk officer.
Ward will succeed John Skar, who is retiring.
She previously was managing director at Babson Capital Management L.L.C., a MassMutual subsidiary.
Ward has a bachelor’s degree in economics and Spanish from the University of Rochester. She is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries.
In other personnel news:
- AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, New York, a unit of AXA S.A., Paris, has promoted Kevin Molloy to senior vice president of distribution finance, from vice president of distribution finance.
Molloy has a bachelor’s degree in resource economics and a master’s degree in agricultural and resource economics from the University of Connecticut.
- HealthMarkets Inc., North Richland Hills, Texas, has hired David Fields to be executive vice president and chief operating officer.
Fields previously was chief executive officer of UniCare Life and Health Insurance Company, a unit of WellPoint Inc., Indianapolis. Before that he was general manager of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia, Atlanta.
Fields has a bachelor’s degree in commerce-accounting from the University of Louisville.
- New York Life Insurance Company, New York, has named Eileen Slevin chief information officer.
Slevin, who has been a senior vice president at New York Life, will continue to hold that title.