What You Need to Know
- Policygenius continues to hire.
- Chief financial officers are still in demand.
- The Standard has a new retirement consultant working with advisors in the Midwest.
Policygenius has hired Maya Gumennik to be the company’s head of marketing.
Policygenius is a New York-based web broker that recently raised $100 million in financing and set up a second headquarters in Durham, North Carolina. It recently hired a vice president of people, a chief financial officer and a general manager of content. It’s helping Brighthouse Financial with an accelerated underwriting project.
Gumennik previously was the senior vice president of performance marketing at EverQuote.
She has a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in business from Harvard.
Earlier in her career, Gumennik worked for management and private equity consulting firms. She also spent eight years working for TripAdvisor.
In other personnel news:
Sun Life Financial Inc., Toronto, has hired Manjit Singh to be executive vice president and chief financial officer.
Singh previously was executive vice president of enterprise finance at Toronto-Dominion Bank.
Singh has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Waterloo and a master’s degree from the University of Western Ontario’s business school. He holds the Chartered Professional Accountants and Chartered Financial Analyst professional designations.
He’s president of Ascend Canada, a group for Pan-Asian business people in North America.