Personnel Changes: N.Y. Life, Shoemaker, Others

- Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, Horsham, Pa., says Susan Cooper is now a managing partner of the New York City Agency.

Paul Vignone will continue to be an agency managing partner, Penn Mutual says.

Cooper previously was executive vice president of the Northeast Division at AXA Advisors, a unit of a U.S. arm of AXA S.A., Paris.

Cooper has a bachelor’s degree from Keene State College. She holds the Certified Financial Planner and Chartered Life Underwriter professional designations, and she is a life member of the Million Dollar Round Table. She is member of the American College board of trustees.

- WellNet Healthcare, Bethesda, Md., has named Chris Kaiser sales executive for the Mid-Atlantic territory and Jay Thompson sales executive for the Northeast territory.

Kaiser previously was a sales executive at Vocus Inc., Lanham, Md., He has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Metropolitan State College of Denver.

Thompson was a research consultant at Corporate Executive Board Inc., Arlington, Va.

Thompson has bachelor’s degrees in finance and accounting from the University of Oklahoma and a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Denver.