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COLUMBUS, Ga. , Oct. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Aflac Incorporated (NYSE: AFL ) announced today the promotion of Virgil R.
Miller to president of Aflac Incorporated, effective Jan. 1, 2025 . Miller will retain his current role as president of Aflac U.
S. In his expanded role, Miller's responsibilities will include supporting key companywide profitable growth and efficiency initiatives, continuing to advance the company's digital capabilities with a focus on customer-centric strategies, and managing the evolution of product offerings to meet new market needs. Miller will continue to report to Aflac Incorporated Chairman and CEO Daniel P.
Amos . Miller joined Aflac in 2004, and prior to being named to his current position as Aflac U.S.
president, he has successfully held multiple roles of increasing responsibility in the U.S., including lead of client services, chief administration officer, chief operating officer of Aflac U.
S., and executive vice president and president of Aflac Group and Individual Benefits. Miller's career includes his service as a U.
S. Marine and more than 30 years in the industry, including currently serving on the boards of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the non-profit parent of LIMRA and LOMA, LL Global, and the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI). In addition, the company is announcing the appointment of Aflac Incorporated Executive Vice President and General Counsel Audrey Boone Tillman and Aflac Incorporated Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Max K.
Brodén , to the roles of senior executive vice president, effective Jan. 1, 2025 . Both Tillman and Brodén will continue to report to Aflac Incorporated Chairman and CEO Daniel P.
Amos . Tillman oversees Compliance, Government Relations, Corporate Communications, Global Cybersecurity and the office of the Corporate Secretary, including the functions of the General Counsel and Compliance offices of Aflac Japan. In her role, Tillman serves to uphold the company's strong, ethics-centered culture, a cornerstone of Aflac's longstanding reputation in the industry.
More recently, Tillman assumed executive leadership of Aflac Incorporated's Sustainability efforts and Aflac's Supplier Diversity strategies. Brodén is responsible for leading enterprise-wide corporate development, investor and rating agency relations, corporate finance, capital management, financial reporting, and financial planning and analysis. More recently, he has assumed oversight of the company's global investments, risk and actuarial functions, as well as its reinsurance strategy, including Aflac Re Bermuda Ltd.
Brodén joined Aflac in 2017 as senior vice president and treasurer, bringing more than 15 years of experience and leadership managing global financial and insurance portfolios. Commenting on the appointments, Aflac Incorporated Chairman and CEO Daniel P. Amos stated: "In conjunction with Aflac Incorporated's Board of Directors, it is my pleasure to share these well-deserved promotions that acknowledge the accomplishments of Virgil, Audrey and Max, whose contributions and executive leadership have had a tremendous impact on our company.
These promotions not only demonstrate the breadth and depth of our company's talent, but they also recognize these leaders' unwavering commitment to their areas, which serves as an inspiration to others across Aflac to deliver on our promise to be there for our policyholders when they need us most." ABOUT AFLAC INCORPORATED Aflac Incorporated (NYSE: AFL ), a Fortune 500 company, has helped provide financial protection and peace of mind for nearly seven decades to millions of policyholders and customers through its subsidiaries in the U.S.
and Japan . In the U.S.
, Aflac is the No. 1 provider of supplemental health insurance products. 1 In Japan , Aflac Life Insurance Japan is the leading provider of cancer and medical insurance in terms of policies in force.
The company takes pride in being there for its policyholders when they need us most, as well as being included in the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere for 18 consecutive years (2024), Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies for 23 years (2024) and Bloomberg's Gender-Equality Index for the fourth consecutive year (2023). In addition, the company became a signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2021 and has been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index (2023) for 10 years. To find out how to get help with expenses health insurance doesn't cover, get to know us at aflac.
com or aflac.com/espanol . Investors may learn more about Aflac Incorporated and its commitment to corporate social responsibility and sustainability at investors.
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The company desires to take advantage of these provisions. This document contains cautionary statements identifying important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected herein, and in any other statements made by company officials in communications with the financial community and contained in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Forward-looking statements are not based on historical information and relate to future operations, strategies, financial results or other developments.
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The company cautions readers that the following factors, in addition to other factors mentioned from time to time, could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements: difficult conditions in global capital markets and the economy, including inflation defaults and credit downgrades of investments global fluctuations in interest rates and exposure to significant interest rate risk concentration of business in Japan limited availability of acceptable yen-denominated investments foreign currency fluctuations in the yen/dollar exchange rate differing interpretations applied to investment valuations significant valuation judgments in determination of expected credit losses recorded on the Company's investments decreases in the Company's financial strength or debt ratings decline in creditworthiness of other financial institutions the Company's ability to attract and retain qualified sales associates, brokers, employees, and distribution partners deviations in actual experience from pricing and reserving assumptions ability to continue to develop and implement improvements in information technology systems and on successful execution of revenue growth and expense management initiatives interruption in telecommunication, information technology and other operational systems, or a failure to maintain the security, confidentiality, integrity or privacy of sensitive data residing on such systems subsidiaries' ability to pay dividends to the Parent Company inherent limitations to risk management policies and procedures operational risks of third-party vendors tax rates applicable to the Company may change failure to comply with restrictions on policyholder privacy and information security extensive regulation and changes in law or regulation by governmental authorities competitive environment and ability to anticipate and respond to market trends catastrophic events, including, but not limited to, as a result of climate change, epidemics, pandemics, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, war or other military action, major public health issues, terrorism or other acts of violence, and damage incidental to such events ability to protect the Aflac brand and the Company's reputation ability to effectively manage key executive succession changes in accounting standards level and outcome of litigation or regulatory inquiries allegations or determinations of worker misclassification in the United States Media contact – Ines Gutzmer , 762.207.7601 or [email protected] Analyst and investor contact – David A.
Young , 706.596.3264 or 800.
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