Roland C. Baker
Roland C. Baker, Executive Director of American Insurance Management Group, Inc. (AIM), has achieved a distinguished career as an industry leader. His experience includes senior executive positions with national insurers and directorships with numerous financial institutions and non-for-profit entities. Mr. Baker oversees AIM’s management consulting division and specializes in governance issues, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance where in he is a qualified expert; mergers, acquisitions, strategy development and marketing.
Previously, Mr. Baker was CEO of First Penn Pacific Life Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Lincoln Financial Services holding company with assets over $95 billion. He was the founder and CEO of Baker, Rakich, Shipley & Politzer, consultants to the financial services industry specializing in marketing, distribution system and strategy development. He had served as chairman, president and CEO of the Signature Group, a $650 million company specializing in direct response marketing of personal insurance and other financial services, and chairman and CEO of Old American Insurance Company, a $200 million life and health insurer.
As a senior vice president of Colonial Penn Group. Mr. Baker was responsible for strategy development and financial management, actuarial reserving, product pricing, and the administrative service divisions. He concurrently served as executive vice president and director of Colonial Penn Insurance, Colonial Penn Franklin Insurance, and Colonial Penn Life Insurance Companies. He began his career with Beneficial Standard Life Insurance Company, where he rose to the position of senior vice president, directing all internal operations and was a Board memebr of Beneficial Standard Life Insurance Company.
Mr. Baker has held leadership and board positions of five for profit companies: Allstate Financial Investment Trust; audit chair of Henderson Global Funds; North American Company for Life and Health Insurance, Mutual Assurance, Ceres Group, Inc. (NASDAQ) and Quanta Capital Holdings, Ltd, which after overseeing its successful turnaround was sold enhancing shareholder value. The seven professional organizations serving as a Board member include American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; American Society of Chartered Life Underwriters; LOMA; National Association of Independent Insurers; American Institute of Property and Liability; and the American Council of Life Insurance.
Mr. Baker received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California (UCLA) and his MBA from the University of Southern California. He is a Certified Public Accountant, a Chartered Life Underwriter, and a Fellow of the Life Insurance Management Institute. He has been an adjunct professor of finance at Northeastern Illinois University.
