Symetra Says Goodbye to CEO
By Seattle Business Magazine June 8, 2010
Symetra Financial CEO Randall Talbot has stepped down to pursue other opportunities after more than 12 years with the company. Talbots tenure included running Symetra while it was still a part of Safeco and seeing the company through an initial public offering less than five months ago. Talbot will be replaced by Thomas Marra. Marra…
Symetra Financial CEO Randall Talbot has stepped down to pursue other opportunities after more than 12 years with the company. Talbots tenure included running Symetra while it was still a part of Safeco and seeing the company through an initial public offering less than five months ago. Talbot will be replaced by Thomas Marra. Marra spent 29 years working with The Hartford, where he started as a student and rose to become the companys second-highest officer. Marra has stated that he is interested in growing Symetras individual life-insurance operations, and that he is looking forward to implementing some new ideas of his own.