Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company has promoted Robert Casale and Debra Palermino to executive vice president, from senior vice president.
Casale is the chief information officer at MassMutual, Springfield, Mass., and Palermino is in human resources.
MassMutual also has promoted David Allen, John Deitelbaum, Bill Silvanic, Norm Smith, Trish Walsh and Eric Wietsma to senior vice president, from corporate vice president.
In other personnel news:
- Great-West Retirement Services, Greenwood Village, Colo., a unit of Power Corp. of Canada, Montreal, has hired Todd Champney to be a regional sales director based in Dallas.
Champney, who will work in the Dallas market along with another regional sales director, previously was a regional vice president for the northern Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Memphis, Tenn., markets at the John Hancock unit of Manulife Financial Corp., Toronto (TSX:MFC).
Champney has a bachelor’s degree in English from Texas A&M University.