Daniel P. Amos
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Aflac Incorporated
Dan Amos is chairman and chief executive officer of Aflac Incorporated. Mr. Amos joined Aflac in 1973 and worked in the sales area for 10 years. He was named president of Aflac in 1983, chief operating officer in 1987, chief executive officer of Aflac Incorporated in 1990, and chairman in 2001.
During Mr. Amos's tenure as CEO, revenues have grown from $2.7 billion to $16.6 billion as of December 31, 2008. Mr. Amos also is responsible for launching the company's national advertising program that features the popular Aflac Duck.
Today, Aflac is a top national brand and was named by Fortune magazine in 2009 as one of America’s Most Admired Companies for the eighth year, soared to number one on the magazine's list of the World's Most Admired Companies in the Health and Life Insurance category, and vaulted to Number 26 on Fortune’s list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in America for the 11th consecutive year.
Mr. Amos has received the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Award and the Anti-Defamation League’s Torch of Liberty Award. He was named America's Best CEO for the insurance/life category in 2009 by Institutional Investor magazine, the fourth time he has appeared on the prestigious list. And, under Mr. Amos’s leadership, Aflac has been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s annual list of World’s Most Ethical Companies for three consecutive years.
Aflac, a Fortune 500 company, insures more than 40 million people worldwide. It is the leading provider of individual insurance policies offered at the worksite in the United States and is the largest life insurer in Japan in terms of individual policies in force. The company insures one out of four Japanese households.
Mr. Amos is a member of the board of directors of Synovus Financial Corp. and is a member of the board of trustees of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and House of Mercy of Columbus. He previously served as a member of the Consumer Affairs Advisory Committee of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He is the former chairman of the board of The Japan America Society of Georgia and former chairman of the University of Georgia Foundation.
Mr. Amos holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia in risk management.
