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As chairman president and chief executive officer Dona Young is driving all operations to improve revenues profitability and return on equity through a strategy focused on life insurance annuities and investments for the affluent and high-net-worth market.
Mrs. Young joined the company as an attorney in 1980 after serving as a summer law intern in 1979. After advancing through several promotions in the Law and Reinsurance departments she was named vice president and assistant general counsel in 1987. Mrs. Young was promoted to senior vice president Individual Sales and Marketing and general counsel in 1989. She was named executive vice president and general counsel in 1994 in charge of life insurance and annuity operations and corporate staff functions. She was elected a director of the company in 1998 president in 2000 and the following year added chief operating officer to her responsibilities. In mid-2002 Mrs. Young assumed responsibility for the company's investment operations. She became president and chief executive officer on January 1 2003 and in April of that year became chairman president and chief executive officer.
Mrs. Young is a member of the boards of Phoenix American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) Foot Locker Inc. and Wachovia Corp. She also is a member of the American Bar Association as well as the Bar Associations of Connecticut Hartford County and New York.
Active in the community Mrs. Young chaired the 2005-2006 capital campaign to construct a new food distribution center for Foodshare Inc. Greater Hartford's regional food bank. She also serves on the board of Hartford Hospital and the Board of Trustees of the Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc. In 2003 she chaired the United Way of the Capital Area Community Campaign.
Mrs. Young was honored with a Leadership Award for Women in Business by the New England Council in 1994 and received the Antoinette Bascetta Women's Career Development Award from Trust House in Hartford in 2000. In 2002 she was named the Laura A. Johnson Woman of the Year by Hartford College For Women and she received the Human Relations Award of the National Conference for Community and Justice.
Mrs. Young has a bachelor's degree and master's degree in political science from Drew University and a law degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law. In 2001 she received the Outstanding Alumni Award from Drew University and in 2002 she received the Distinguished Graduate Award from the University of Connecticut School of Law. | 