MassMutual Financial Group in Springfield, Mass., has promoted two executives - Andrew Oleksiw and Toby J. Slodden - to executive vice president.
Named to that rank at Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. were the head of the company's international insurance, large corporate markets, and mergers and acquisition functions, Mr. Oleksiw, and the executive responsible for the retirement services, disability income insurance, long-term-care insurance, and financial products divisions, Mr. Slodden, the company said Thursday. Both were senior vice presidents.
Mr. Oleksiw, who is also president and CEO of MassMutual International Inc., joined MassMutual in 1999 as the senior vice president in charge of international operations after 16 years in the financial services industry - most recently at First Union Corp. (now Wachovia) and previously at NationsBank (now Bank of America) Corp.
At First Union, Mr. Oleksiw was the managing director, global capital markets.
Mr. Oleksiw came to First Union in 1993 as a senior vice president and became the international division head in the same year. Before that, he had worked 10 years in the international banking units at NationsBank and its predecessor companies.
Mr. Slodden joined MassMutual in 1997 as the vice president of strategic finance. In 1999, he was named senior vice president of capital markets and treasury operations and a year later assumed the additional role of president at MassMutual's newly formed financial products division.
Mr. Slodden's previous career included eight years at American Express/Shearson Lehman Brothers, where he was a first vice president, and later a stint at USF&G Corp. as the vice president of corporate risk.
