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Westport Executive Personnel
Westport HRH a division of Willis HRH (NYSE:WSH), has a total of 14 employees and is involved as an outsource partner to FSP. Westport HRH serves as a co-administrator and record keeper of life insurance policies, accounting partner, insurance illustrator, insurance reverse engineering partner. Clients interact seamlessly with Westport HRH and Financial Solutions Partners personnel. Below are the biographies of key Westport HRH executives.

Ron Schmidt

Mr. Schmidt is the CEO of Westport HRH. He evaluates and defines the strategic direction of Westport, a company that provides actuarial product design, TPA services and life insurance product wholesaling expertise to the large institutional life market.

Founded in 1986, Westport HRH's core operations are well known and respected in the financial services industry as a unique resource for clients that are looking for insurance product design, development and administration. Mr. Schmidt’s day-to-day focus is on maintaining a multitude of financial service provider relationships. He keeps a watchful eye on the industry and works with corporate decision makers, life insurance carriers, mutual fund managers, banks, investment managers, executive benefits consultants and technology providers to create highly customized products and services.

Prior to joining Westport, he served as a senior member of the Corporate Insurance Division of The Ayco Company, now a Goldman Sachs subsidiary.

A graduate of Siena College and the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University, Mr. Schmidt has 22 years of professional experience in the corporate financial services industry.


 
  Jim Pinto

Mr. Pinto uses the experience he has gained both in the military and in the insurance industry to lead a department of proactive and highly trained client case specialists, business analysts, and software programmers. He works closely with Westport’s senior management, product development team, and the design and analysis team to ensure that administrative service operations maintain the optimal level of efficiency and accuracy.

As a former product manager for the imaging systems unit at Fujitsu, Mr. Pinto provided software and hardware expertise for the development of new products, including fax-on-demand services.

Mr. Pinto earned a B.S. in Economics from Southern Connecticut State University.

Ellen Ulrich

Ellen's role begins when insurance products are still conceptual. Staging the development of a client's ideas into new marketable products is her special talent. Under her careful management, products are ultimately installed and integrated into administrative systems. Applying dynamic experience in actuarial and technological analysis, as well as sales and marketing, Ellen synthesizes and mobilizes numerous teams to produce the best possible outcome for the client.

Her 18-year career in the life insurance industry includes experience in plan design, product development, project management, actuarial consulting, sales support, and illustration systems management and development.

She is an Associate of the Society of Actuaries and has earned a B.S. in Economics and Mathematical Sciences from the State University of New York at Binghamton.


Tim Callander

Tim provides corporate clients, consultants, and insurance carriers with customized, ongoing plan administration services.

His background includes over 25 years of experience managing the ongoing administration of over 200 non-qualified executive benefit plans and corporate owned life insurance programs. The majority of these clients being Fortune 500 companies.

Prior to joining Westport HRH, Tim spent 18 years with The Ayco Company, a Goldman Sachs subsidiary where he served several years as Vice President of Plan Administration. Previously, he served as Vice President of Information Systems, where he built and maintained systems to support Ayco's executive financial consulting business.

Tim holds an undergraduate degree in Mathematics, an M.B.A. in Information Systems, and an M.S. in Taxation from the State University of New York at Albany.


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