With more than three decades of experience, Shamley’s professional background includes senior roles at other insurance companies such as Prudential, AIG and the Hartford. Credit: Aflac Incorporated/PRNewswire.

US-based supplemental health insurance provider Aflac has appointed JR Shamley to the newly created role of senior vice-president of National Account Business Development and Growth Solutions.  

Shamley’s primary responsibility will be to align distribution and business strategies to boost profitable growth within the national accounts segment. 

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Before joining Aflac, he held the position of senior vice-president, Time Away and Life Solutions Practice Leader at Aon. In this role, he led consulting for large employers in the absence, life and disability space, and was instrumental in driving voluntary and executive benefit sales. 

With more than three decades of experience, Shamley’s professional background includes senior roles at other insurance companies such as Prudential, AIG and the Hartford.  

His expertise is expected to be an asset to Aflac’s national accounts segment, which caters to employers with 5,000 or more covered lives, offering supplemental health, life insurance, disability insurance and absence management solutions. 

Aflac National Accounts senior vice-president Scott Beeman said: “JR is a strategic thinker with extensive experience developing solutions for the group benefits marketplace.  

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“His leadership and industry insights, as well as his innovative approach, will help strengthen Aflac’s value proposition across our expansive suite of group insurance plans, helping Aflac lead our industry by helping better meet the needs of large employers and their workforces.” 

Shamley said: “I am very excited to join Aflac and bring my ideas and years of experience to help develop and execute industry-leading growth solutions alongside an extremely talented National Accounts team. The national accounts platform presents a tremendous opportunity in the market for Aflac to provide our brokers and customers with a robust and innovative set of product solutions.” 

This appointment follows other changes within Aflac’s executive team.  

Last month, the company promoted Virgil R. Miller to president of Aflac Incorporated, while Audrey Boone Tillman and Max K. Brodén were elevated to senior executive vice-president roles.  

Additionally, Aflac has announced a partnership with Nayya, aimed at enhancing the claims experience for employees.