American Equity's Next CEO, and More: Personnel Moves

Dees has been Molina’s senior vice president, Marketplace. Before he began working for Molina, in 2018, he was a senior vice president at Centene Corp.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services refers to the Affordable Care Act HealthCare.gov public exchange program as the Marketplace.

Ameritas Mutual Holding Company says Bob Jurgensmeier is now the company’s executive vice president – individual product and independent distribution.

Jurgensmeier has been working for Ameritas since 2012. He has been the Lincoln, Nebraska-based company’s senior vice president and chief actuary – individual division for Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. and Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. of New York.

Jurgensmeier has a bachelor’s degree in actuarial science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He holds the Fellow of the Society of Actuaries professional designation and is a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

Jurgensmeier serves on the board of directors for CHI Health St. Elizabeth Hospital and CHI Nebraska Heart Hospital. He also is on the life insurance committee of the American Council of Life Insurers.

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon has appointed Jeff Rude to be Wyoming’s insurance commissioner.

Rude previously was the interim commissioner. Before that, he spent five years as the Wyoming department’s deputy insurance commissioner.

He spent 24 years as an Air Force judge advocate, and he was general counsel at F.E. Warren Air Force Base for three years before joining the Wyoming department in 2013.

Rude has a bachelor’s degree from George Mason University and a law degree from the University of North Dakota.

The Iowa Insurance Division has announced that Kim Cross will be the acting deputy commissioner for supervision; that Ben Olejnik has been promoted to Fraud Bureau chief; and that the division is adding a new chief accounting specialist position.

Cross is filling the role previously held by Jim Armstrong, who has retired after working for the division for more than 35 years. She has been working for the Iowa division since 1989, and she has been the division’s chief examiner since 2016.

As the acting deputy commissioner for supervision, Cross will oversee 50 employees in the Iowa division’s company regulation bureau. She will lead review of all mergers, acquisitions, administrative or judicial supervision and other material changes in corporate organization.

She has a bachelor’s degree in business from Northwest Missouri State and a law degree from Drake University.

Olejnik, the new Iowa division Fraud Bureau chief, has been a law enforcement officer in the division’s Fraud Bureau since 2017. Olejnik previously was a police officer with the Iowa State University Police Department and an auditor at the Iowa State University Office of Internal Audit.

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