Comings & Goings - July 28, 2011

Evolution Benefits and Lighthouse1 merge to create Evolution1. Evolution1 will offer electronic payment, on-premise and cloud computing solutions to help in the administration of flexible spending accounts, health reimbursement accounts, VEBAs, health saving accounts, wellness and transit plans. Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC acquires Prescott Pailet Benefits LP based in Dallas, Texas. … Brett Lane joins Lockton as a producer. Lane was previously an account executive for welfare and health clients and started with Lockton in November 2005 as an account administrator. … Yuan Zheng joins Wells Fargo Insurance Services as client services adviser for the international benefits practice. Prior to joining Wells Fargo he was an actuarial analyst for Aon Hewitt and was an international consultant with Mercer as well as a client manager for RSM McGladrey. … Rod Mims joins Liberty Life Insurance Company as national sales manager. He has more than 20 years of insurance and investment experience and previously worked as a national sales manager with Genworth Financial. … John Gist, a Travelers of Florida sales executive, has been awarded the Dach Award by the InVEST program. The award honors an insurance industry volunteer who has made contributions to InVEST program, which attracts new talent to the industry. Gist has been involved with the program for more than 10 years with the St. Petersburg Catholic High School in St. Petersburg, Fla. … Steven H. Turtz joins Crump Life Insurance Services as sales vice president. He has more than 25 years of experience and was previously the president and executive director of SunTrust Bank’s Financial Planning and Insurance division. … Jeffrey Jaynes joins Investment Professionals, Inc. as vice president and director of insurance. He previously worked as the national relationship manager with VIP Insurance. … Tim Arnold, Linda Bambacus, John Garrison and Ann Houser join Colonial Life as senior executives at the Columbia, S.C. headquarters. Arnold has been named senior vice president and COO. Previously he worked for Unum for 25 years. Bambacus has been named vice president, global enrollment business owner. She previously worked for Robert E. Nolan Company, Inc., while helping Unum, clients achieve long-term growth. Garrison has been named vice president, managing and compliance counsel. He served for several years in the S.C. State Senate and has also worked in a private practice with Saleeby & Cox in Hartsville, S.C. and as a circuit court law clerk. Houser has been named vice president of human resources. She recently served as vice president of human resources with an affiliate company Unum US.

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