New Hire Roundup: Kiley to Lead Security Benefit; SNR Denton Welcomes Samlin; Edelman Recruits Bottazzi

For the past 31 years, Bottazzi was an executive with Hewlett-Packard. Before joining Edelman Financial, Bottazzi was the senior vice president of HP’s Americas Technology Services business, responsible for approximately a third of its $127 billion annual revenue, with more than 8,000 employees in his business unit.

Reliance Trust Appoints Robert F. Cook to Head Division

Reliance Trust Company announced Tuesday the appointment of attorney and industry veteran Robert F. Cook as executive vice president and a manager of the church and nonprofit division, one of the largest servicers of church bond offerings in the country.

Cook will work with the division’s team and will be responsible for the direction and strategic development of its activities. He will also work with Reliance Financial Corporation’s senior leadership to advance several of the company’s long-term initiatives and programs. Cook served on the board of directors for 30 years, and has been involved in representing Reliance Trust as legal counsel since its formation in 1975.

Throughout his career he worked to help create denominational loan funds, real estate investment trusts and other lending entities to provide financing for church and nonprofit entities. Prior to joining Reliance Trust, Cook was one of the founding partners of Parker, Johnson, Cook & Dunlevie, Atlanta, Georgia, which merged with Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC in June, 1996.

MassMutual Retirement Services Welcomes Carlough, Hanlon

MassMutual announced recently the addition of two new sales directors, Garret Carlough and Andrew Hanlon, to its retirement services sales and client management organization led by Hugh O’Toole. Both Carlough and Hanlon report to Jonathan Shuman, national sales leader, MassMutual’s retirement services division.

Carlough joined MassMutual from Principal Financial Group as sales director on May 16. He is based in New York City and is providing additional coverage for New York City, Long Island, Westchester County, Rockland County and northern New Jersey.

Hanlon was appointed sales director effective July 1, and is based in Boston, increasing coverage for the eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine territories. He most recently served as a key account manager in MassMutual’s distribution support organization. Prior to joining MassMutual in 2006, Mr. Hanlon spent 10 years with Putnam Investments where he held positions in operations, implementation and sales.

American Academy of Actuaries Names Donald Fuerst Senior Pension Fellow

The American Academy of Actuaries announced Friday that Donald Fuerst will be the professional association’s new senior pension fellow. Fuerst recently retired as a senior partner and consulting actuary with Mercer’s Denver office, where he advised corporate clients for more than 30 years on design, funding and compliance issues related to retirement programs.

The senior pension fellow is a full-time position on the American Academy of Actuaries staff. The post was last held by Frank Todisco, who stepped down in November 2010 to become the chief actuary at the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Fuerst is expected to begin his tenure as senior pension fellow in September. In that role, he will serve as the U.S. actuarial profession’s chief public policy liaison on pension, Social Security and other retirement security issues.

Fuerst has been a member of the American Academy of Actuaries since 1978. He also is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a fellow of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries, and an enrolled actuary.