Driving success

Driving success for producers

Consultative expertise

Your partnership is important to us, and helping you succeed is a key priority. Look to our expert teams for professional support, benefit insights and employee sentiment data to help inform and deepen your client relationships.

Comprehensive solutions

You can be confident working with a group benefits leader equipped with a full suite of absence capabilities for current and emerging regulatory and company-specific leaves. Our portal consolidates all claim and absence activity and integrates with employer systems, while employees enjoy self-service capabilities anytime, anywhere, and from any device.

Caring guidance

Putting benefits to work for people means combining New York Life’s culture of genuine care and human guidance with the deep industry experience and capabilities of a leading group benefits team. You can depend on our people, processes, and technology as we work together to deliver financial security and peace of mind.

You are connected to us locally and across the U.S.

National Sales Team

Head of National Accounts

Mike Banks
(310) 750-5088

National Sales Executives

Northeast

Mike Koons
(445) 225-0833

Southeast

Scott Carlisle
(770) 595-9310

South Central

Scott Hardner
(214) 766-1034

West

Julie Allen
(510) 358-7847

Mid-West

Mike Mathews
(404) 844-6230

Region Leads

West Region Icon

West Region

Tim Flatt
(303) 691-3164

Central Region Icon

Central Region

Cherie Falgout
(908) 554-5261

East Region Icon

East Region

Leslie Golemba
(860) 214-5493

Regional Sales Team

Head of Regional Accounts

Jeff Valley
(949) 289-3799

Pacific RVP

Jake Willis
(818) 522-3649

Southwest RVP

David Budzinski
(602) 999-1416

Midwest RVP

Jim Stanfield
(913) 602-4472

Southeast RVP

Billy Ruel
(704) 302-4749

Northeast RVP

Carson Shedd
(917) 359-7198

Mid-Atlantic RVP

Claude Ricciardi
(856) 904-7793

Get in Touch

Your relationship is important to us. Reach out anytime for a discussion about how we can help you tailor our capabilities to meet your clients’ needs.

New York Life Group Benefit Solutions products and services are provided by Life Insurance Company of North America and New York Life Group Insurance Company of NY, subsidiaries of New York Life Insurance Company.

Life Insurance Company of North America is not licensed in New York and does not conduct insurance business in New York.