Tuesday, February 22, 2011

HUMBA Alum Van Ewing, Managing Partner of New York Life

Van is a graduate of Howard University where he received a Masters of Business Administration in Finance and Banking in 1998. After graduating Howard, Van joined Texaco, Inc, located in Westchester County, New York. After completing the two-year management rotational program he was appointed to Director of Corporate Development of the Fuel and Marine Marketing division and written up in Forbes magazine as a 29-year old executive of the huge multinational Oil and Gas Company. Mr. Ewing resigned after a six-year tenure at ChevronTexaco Inc. with his last role being Director of Mergers & Acquisitions/Strategic Initiatives. Van is married to Dionne and they reside in downtown Chicago with their two dogs, Miles and Zsa Zsa. Van lives by the simple motto offered to him by his wife,"If it can be done, then I can do it.”

“New York Life has afforded me the balance of life issues that I always struggled with during my prior 8-year corporate career.”

Van enjoys the flexibility and learning/ development atmosphere of New York Life. As an agent, he was able to help a lot of families. In his current role as partner, he is able to recruit, develop and train agents to do much of the same on a larger scale.

Luke and Van are Managing Partners for New York Life's award winning Chicago Northshore General Office. As Managing Partners they oversee the operation and activities of one of New York Life’ s largest producing agencies, with over 111 agents throughout the greater Illinois area.

Mr. Ewing is a board member of the American Lung Association of the Metropolitan Chicago, a board member of the NAIFA Illinois Foundation and and corporate advisory member of Larabida Children's hostpital.

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Source: New York Life website