David Howell

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- Annuities Pacific Life offers a variety of annuities designed to help grow, protect, and manage retirement savings turning it into steady, reliable lifetime income based on your personal preferences and goals.
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- About Us Whether you’re protecting your loved ones or growing your assets, you’re highly invested in your financial future. And so are we. When you purchase life and retirement insurance, you’re buying a promise. A promise that today, tomorrow or ten years from now, we’ll be there. For nearly 160 years, we’ve fulfilled that promise. Our clients trust Pacific Life to protect what matters most to them—their families, their businesses, their futures.

David Howell, FSA
Chief Executive Officer
Pacific Life Re

Mr. Howell manages global reinsurance and retrocession business, Pacific Life Re and is a member of the management committee. He has over 35 years of experience in life reinsurance, having held a variety of senior roles with Swiss Re and Mercantile & General Reinsurance, covering various aspects of both traditional and non-traditional reinsurance within the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, Middle East and Europe.

Under Mr. Howell’s leadership, Pacific Life Re has grown from a niche reinsurer to a significant player in the global reinsurance market with material and increasing market shares in Europe, Asia, Australia and North America.