Leadership

Steven M. Stecher

President

Steve Stecher is President of Washington National Insurance Company. Steve joined CNO Financial Group as executive vice president of operations and information technology in September of 2004. He became chief operating officer for the company’s Carmel-based insurance companies in February 2005, executive vice president of operations for CNO in December 2006, and president of Washington National in August 2008.

Before joining CNO, he served for two years as senior vice president and chief information officer for ORIX Financial Services.

From 1997 to 2002, Steve served in various management positions, including Chief Information Officer, with ING Americas, the U.S./Canada/Latin America unit of international financial services/insurance company ING Group. His ING career culminated with his service as head of shared services, which included responsibility for human resources, information technology infrastructure, corporate systems, enterprise program management, real estate management and procurement.

Before ING, Steve worked with Equitable/AXA, where he held management positions in marketing, agency operations and brokerage sales management. He also served as an associate in the insurance group at Perot Systems, program director of insurance services at IDC, and director of strategic planning and research in the insurance and healthcare units at EDS.

Steve earned a B.A. degree in economics and finance from the University of Texas (Dallas), and a master's degree in management from National University (San Diego). He completed the Finance for Senior Executives Program at the Harvard Business School.

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