Principal Financial Group said it had promoted Chris Calos to vice president of group sales.
He will be responsible for group benefits sales, including all medical and nonmedical sales and service operations, the company said Wednesday. Mr. Calos succeeded Steve Whitty, who has accepted the newly created post of vice president of corporate marketing.
Mr. Calos joined the Des Moines company in June as a vice president in its national accounts division. Previously, he was an executive vice president of employee benefit solutions at AIG, and before that he was a senior vice president of the group benefits division at Protective Life Inc.
Principal Financial Group had $256.9 billion of assets under management at Dec. 31.









