Category: Press Release

BLUE SPRINGS – June 25, 2018 – Heartland Financial Group (“HFG”) recently announced that Bill Cole, Chief Operations Officer at One Life America (“One Life”), would be assuming the role of Vice President of Technology. Cole will continue to serve One Life as COO, in conjunction with his new role. 

“The One Life acquisition has landed us some talented executives with a pedigree of success in managing agency operations,” said HFG CEO, Todd Hill. “We are excited for Bill to spearhead our investment in technology as we seek to garner greater operational efficiencies on the day-to-day.” 

Cole was one of One Life’s President Scotty Elliott’s first hires in 2010. He came to One Life with an impressive background in custom software development, implementation, and deployment. He was charged with building out One Life’s technology infrastructure to include an IT helpdesk, software development team, and network administrative platform. 

“Bill has been an absolute pleasure to work with” stated HFG Chief Distribution Officer and One Life President, Scotty Elliott. “He shows up to work every day with a can-do attitude and he possesses that rare skill set of combining a strong technical acumen with extraordinary interpersonal skills. I fully expect him to make an immediate positive impact on the operational effectiveness of HFG’s platforms.” 

As VP of Technology, Bill will be charged with overseeing all technical components of the HFG enterprise. He will look to ensure that HFG is remaining technologically relevant and seek to build out custom solutions to support the expanding and diverse distribution. There will be a keen focus on helping create a top-flight shared services platform out of the Blue Springs, MO home office, with technological advancements at the forefront. 

“I’m excited to tackle this next challenge in my career” Cole said. “I have learned so much during my tenure at One Life that has prepared me to take this next step. I look forward to helping HFG build a championship technology division.” 

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About Heartland Financial Group 

Heartland Financial Group (HFG), headquartered in Blue Springs, MO, is one of the nation’s leading independent distributors of life and health insurance products focused on serving the Senior Market. HFG develops and distributes life and health insurance products with insurance carrier partners and markets these products through its distribution network, which includes a career base of agents, partner IMOs and call centers. HFG has over 150 employees and a network of over 50,000 agents nationwide. HFG presently generates over 500 million of annual premium across the enterprise. You can learn more about HFG at www.hfgagents.com. 

Media Contact: 

Tegan Harrison 

Public Relations 

tharrison@e-hfg.com 

816-878-9747 

Partnership Inquiries: Tegrey Moot, Chief Marketing Officer 

Heartland Financial Group 

tmoot@e-hfg.com 

602-820-8470 

BLUE SPRINGS, MO., January 9, 2020 – Heartland Financial Group (“HFG”) recently announced that David Hosch, Vice President of Marketing at One Life America (“One Life”), would be assuming the role of Director of Marketing for HFG and all its companies. 

David has been with One Life for 24 years in a variety of capacities. For the last few years, David has spearheaded One Life’s Marketing to include incentive trips, website initiatives, and agent recruiting efforts. 

“I look for Hosch to help bring change to our company and to unify our divisions and marketing campaigns,” said Tegrey Moot, HFG’s Chief Marketing Officer. “He’s a joy to be around and has a love for this business, our company, and his fellow employees that’s second to none.”
David’s role in our organization will encompass all agent-facing marketing initiatives and events, including, but not limited to, carrier and product marketing, incentive marketing, organization of events, and marketing to recruit and contract agents. This position will also be responsible for Heartland’s website management and oversight. As Director of Marketing, David will be responsible for producing valuable content for the company’s online presence, editorial design, and organizing the company’s publications. 

“David Hosch is the voice of One Life America and Heartland Financial Group. Having started as an agent, he understands the attitudes and concerns of the average agent and knows how to reach them with the written word or through other media,” said Lee Mowry, President & CEO of One Life America. “As Vice President of Marketing for One Life and Director of Marketing for Heartland Financial Group, David brings a fresh perspective to conveying the right message, be it a product rollout, a sales conference, or directly promoting the virtues of our organization. David is well respected by his peers and is a most valued member of our team.”

We look forward to unifying and creating more brand awareness and a stronger message about who we are as a company. Clearly communicating this is a massive goal for us to accomplish in the coming year. Please join us in congratulating and supporting David in his new role. 

You can reach David at his new email address: Dhosch@hfgagents.com.
David Hosch
Director of Marketing
Dhosch@hfgagents.com
800-748-0026 Ext 1229

BLUE SPRINGS, MO – June 15th, 2018 – Heartland Financial Group (“HFG”) announced last week that it has completed the acquisition of Unique Writers, Inc. dba Legacy Life Insurance Solutions (“UW”), a leading national independent marketing organization focused on life and annuity sales.

“This acquisition adds another key organization to HFG’s family, and further accelerates our growth and expansion plans to become the leading full-service life and health sales organization in the United States” commented Scotty Elliott, the recently named Chief Distribution Officer for HFG and President of One Life America (OLA). “UW has a proven track record and history of success in key niche markets that will both complement and further strengthen our current family of companies.”

UW’s proprietary recruiting, training and agency management systems coupled with proven sales programs have allowed it to grow exponentially over the past seven years since its founding by Mike Passaglia, an industry veteran of more than 29 years. Passaglia serves as President and CEO of UW, and will continue in that role post-acquisition, along with taking on additional responsibilities with HFG and OLA.

“This is an exciting day for our current distribution, our carriers, and even producers we have yet to meet” said Passaglia of the announcement. “The opportunity to fully immerse ourselves into HFG and OLA’s culture and current distribution, as well as their extensive, industry-leading product lines including Medicare, Final Expense, and Mortgage Protection, is a dream come true not just for me, but for every producer that wants to truly succeed in this amazing industry that has given me so much. I look forward to sharing the news of what is undoubtedly the best destination for success in this business with every producer and manager across the country.”

Passaglia entered the insurance industry in June 1989 after serving his country in the U.S. Navy for five years. He took to the insurance business right away, achieving success first as a personal producer, and then as a regional and national sales manager, where he developed and refined a sales system for Mortgage Protection agents that catapulted his sales organization to over $75 million per year in annualized life premium.

“I am very excited to add Mike’s talents and sales acumen to HFG”, said HFG Owner, Chris McDaniel. “While our relationship is still young, Mike and I share a similar history and outlook for this industry, and I know he will leverage all of his skills and experience of the past three decades to make a huge impact on HFG in furthering our expansion plans.”

HFG’s CEO Todd Hill was also very excited to share the news with the rest of the HFG Family. Hill stated, “I see in UW and Mike Passaglia some key missing pieces we need to fully capitalize on our game plan for the future. We continue to bring experienced, industry-changing leaders and companies into the fold here at HFG, that will allow us to fuel our growth and expansion into key markets and demographics. These efforts will ultimately spell even greater success for all of our HFG companies in the coming years. The future certainly looks bright from where I sit.”

About Heartland Financial Group

Heartland Financial Group (HFG), headquartered in Blue Springs, MO, is one of the nation’s leading independent distributors of life and health insurance products focused on serving the Senior Market. HFG develops and distributes life and health insurance products with insurance carrier partners and markets these products through its distribution network, which includes a career base of agents, partner IMOs and call centers. HFG has over 150 employees and a network of over 50,000 agents nationwide. HFG presently generates over 500 million of annual premium across the enterprise. You can learn more about HFG at www.hfgagents.com.

Media Contact:
Tegan Harrison
Public Relations
tharrison@e-hfg.com

816.878.9747

Partnership Inquires:

Tegrey Moot, Chief Marketing Officer

Heartland Financial Group

tmoot@e-hfg.com

602.820.8470