COLUMBUS, Ga., Oct. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Aflac, the leading
provider of voluntary insurance at the work site in the United States, announced today that its
longtime Chairman and CEO Dan Amos
was named to Harvard Business Review's list of Best-Performing CEOs
in the World for 2015. Amos ranked 69 out of 100 CEOs on the
prestigious list.
This year, Harvard Business Review updated its methodology to
reflect CEOs who led companies that excel in financial performance
in addition to environmental, social and governance performance.
Past methodologies ranked executives on stock performance alone.
This is also the first time Harvard Business Review's list
includes CEOs with tenures that began prior to 1995. Amos's tenure
as CEO at Aflac began in 1990.
An article published at HBR.org states that HBR's ranking of
CEOs is meant to be a measure of enduring success, tracking and
analyzing each CEO's performance starting from day one of their
tenure. The goal is to create a list that gets beyond the most
recent quarterly or even annual results and truly evaluates
long-term performance.
Under Amos, Aflac began its fight against childhood cancer by
branding and funding the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
In 2015, Aflac celebrated its 20th anniversary of this
lifesaving partnership by reaching a milestone of $100 million in contributions to the
facility.
The key architect of Aflac's award winning marketing campaign
featuring the Aflac Duck in both the U.S. and Japan, Dan elevated Aflac's brand recognition
from near single digits in 1999 to over 95% today. Under Amos's
tenure Aflac has been featured on Fortune's list of 100 Best
Companies to Work For 17 times and received Ethisphere's World's
Most Ethical Companies award for nine consecutive years. Black
Enterprise Magazine has honored Aflac as one of the 40 Best
Companies for Diversity 10 times, and Latina Style presented Aflac its Best Places For
Latina's to Work award 16 times. Since Amos became CEO Aflac's
annual revenues have risen from $2.7
billion to nearly $23
billion.
About Aflac:
When a policyholder gets sick or hurt,
Aflac pays cash benefits fast. For nearly six decades, Aflac
insurance policies have given policyholders the opportunity to
focus on recovery, not financial stress. In the United States, Aflac is the leading
provider of voluntary insurance at the work site. Through its
trailblazing One Day PaySM initiative, Aflac U.S. can
receive, process, approve and disburse payment for eligible claims
in one business day. In Japan,
Aflac is a leading provider of medical and cancer insurance and
insures 1 in 4 households. Aflac individual and group insurance
products help provide protection to more than 50 million people
worldwide. For nine consecutive years, Aflac has been recognized by
Ethisphere magazine as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies.
In 2015, Fortune magazine recognized Aflac as one of the 100 Best
Companies to Work For in America for the 17th consecutive year.
Also, in 2015, Fortune magazine included Aflac on its list of Most
Admired Companies for the 14th time, ranking the company No. 1 in
innovation for the insurance, life and health category. Aflac
Incorporated is a Fortune 500 company listed on the New York Stock
Exchange under the symbol AFL. To find out more about Aflac and One
Day PaySM, visit aflac.com or espanol.aflac.com.
Aflac herein means American Family Life Assurance Company of
Columbus and American Family Life
Assurance Company of New York.
Media contacts – Jon Sullivan,
706.763.4813 or jsullivan@aflac.com
Analyst and investor contact – Robin Y.
Wilkey, 706.596.3264 or 800.235.2667, FAX: 706.324.6330, or
rwilkey@aflac.com.
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