Transamerica Appoints Industry Veteran Gregg Holgate as Head of Inforce Management & Client Engagement for Company's Retirement Business

BALTIMORE, July 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Transamerica announced today that retirement industry veteran Gregg Holgate has joined the company as head of Inforce Management & Client Engagement for the company's retirement business. Holgate, who most recently led institutional retirement distribution at Lincoln Financial Group, will lead the team dedicated to ensuring Transamerica's recordkeeping clients maximize the industry-leading solutions the company offers.

This addition of industry-leading talent is another example of the steps Transamerica is taking to become the leading life insurance and retirement company. Holgate will report to Jamie Ohl, president of Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments at Transamerica.

"Gregg's experience and expertise leading people and driving results will further enhance Transamerica's ability to deliver superior service to clients," said Ohl. "We have more than 24,000 retirement plan sponsor clients, and I am confident they will benefit from Gregg's proven ability to understand and tailor solutions to their specific needs."

As part of his role, Holgate will also lead Transamerica's Advice Center, which works directly with plan participants to help customers build and protect their retirement income through job changes and retirement. Holgate is a military veteran with more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. He has previously held leadership roles at Lincoln Financial Group, Voya Financial and ING.

Holgate holds Series 6,7, 24, 26 and 66 FINRA licenses and is a board member of the Philadelphia Union Foundation. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Arizona State University.

About Transamerica
With a history that dates back more than 100 years, Transamerica is a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Transamerica's dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building America's leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, with unique access to the large and growing middle market consumer via World Financial Group and U.S. retirement recordkeeping. Transamerica provides a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services.

In 2023, Transamerica fulfilled its promises to customers, paying more than $47 billion in insurance, retirement, and annuity claims and benefits, including return of annuity premiums paid by the customer. Transamerica's head office is in Baltimore, Maryland, with other major operations in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Denver, Colorado. Transamerica is part of the Aegon group of companies. Each Aegon company is solely responsible for its own financial conditions and contractual obligations. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Aegon is an international financial services holding company.

For more information, visit www.transamerica.com.

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