Current Mentors

Tim Schlitz

AIG - SunAmerica Financial Group
Houston, TX
Senior Vice President (01/2010 –)

SunAmerica Financial Group is the name used by investors referring to the domestic life insurance businesses of AIG. Tim is responsible for corporate planning and strategy for SunAmerica Financial Group. In 2010, his responsibilities also included being Chairman of AIG Star and AIG Edison, two life insurance companies in Japan that were subsequently sold to help AIG pay back the U.S. Government.

AIG - Alico
New York, NY
Senior Vice President and Board Member (01/2009 – 01/2010)

• Member of Alico’s Board of Directors and its Investment Committee
• Member of Alico’s UK Supervisory Board
• Head of Product Centers of Excellence
• Worked on sale of Alico to help AIG pay back the U.S. Government.

AIG - Retirement Services (04/2006 – 12/2008)
Tokyo, Japan
Vice President - Asia

AIG Retirement Services worked with the local AIG subsidiaries in Japan, Korea, Australia, and Taiwan to sell annuities through Banks, Securities Firms, Captive Agents and Independent Brokers. Responsibilities included market and product strategy, sales support, financial planning and analysis, and management/investor reporting. Consulted with AIG’s regional and country Presidents on how to expand bank distribution and integrated retirement services products into their overall strategy.

Hartford Life Insurance, K.K
Tokyo Japan
President and CEO (03/2000 - 03/2006)

Representative Director and chair of the company board of director meetings. Responsible for all company operations and results from time of start-up until position accepted with AIG to develop the annuity business throughout Asia.

Interstate Assurance Company
Des Moines, IA
President (03/1999 - 03/2000)

Tim was responsible for all company operations and results. The company mostly sold regular pay life insurance and single pay equity-indexed annuities through independent marketing companies.

Hartford Life Insurance Company
Simsbury, CT
VP, Director of Institutional Products (01/1996 - 03/1999)

Head of Terminal Funding, Funding agreements, GIC products, and structured settlements businesses (responsible for all business line operations and results).

Hartford Life Insurance Company
Simsbury, CT
VP, Director of Risk Management (01/1995 - 01/1996)

Responsible for establishing asset-liability management process, including measures of duration, convexity, partial durations, and cash flow analysis.

Hartford Life Insurance Co
Simsbury, CT
Director of Annuity Product Management (03/1993 - 12/1994)

Head of department that was responsible for the design, pricing, and implementation of fixed and variable annuities, as well as single-pay life insurance products.

Milliman, Inc., Head of Life Practice,
Washington DC
(01/1992 - 03/1993)

Chalke, Inc., Consultant (Product Development, Asset/Liability Management, Company Tax) (08/1988 - 01/1992)

Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Company, Group Health, Individual Life and Annuity, Group Universal Life, Travel Insurance (05/1983 - 08/1988)

Other

Fellow, Society of Actuaries (1988)
University of Nebraska – Lincoln, B.S., Integrated Studies (1983)