The U.S. business group of Sun Life Financial Inc. (NYSE: SLF, TSX: SLF) has announced Mindy Schulz as Group Market Manager and Assistant Vice President for Sun Life’s Southwest territory, encompassing Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

“Mindy’s new focus reflects our strategy to help our distribution team provide comprehensive advice across all product lines, Stop-Loss, Life, Disability, and Group Voluntary,” said Dan Schmid, VP and Regional Market Leader for Sun Life’s West region. “Backed by operations experts, our group market managers can now spend more time doing what they do best -- mentoring reps on-site and driving the collaboration that will provide the most innovative products and services to benefit brokers. This approach allows Sun Life to fully leverage Mindy’s expertise in our Core, Voluntary, and Stop-Loss products,” Schmid added.

With over 20 years of employee benefits experience, Schulz joined Sun Life in 2012. She received a BA in International Business from University of Nebraska Lincoln, and internationally attended Senshu University, and Oxford University.

About Sun Life Financial

Sun Life Financial is a leading international financial services organization providing a diverse range of protection and wealth accumulation products and services to individuals and corporate customers. Sun Life Financial and its partners today have operations in key markets worldwide, including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, India, China, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Bermuda. Sun Life Financial Inc., the holding company for the Sun Life Financial group of companies, is a public company. It is not an insurance company and does not offer insurance products for sale in the United States or elsewhere, and does not guarantee the obligations of its insurance company subsidiaries. Sun Life Financial Inc. trades on the Toronto (TSX), New York (NYSE), and Philippine (PSE) stock exchanges under the ticker symbol SLF.

In the United States and elsewhere, insurance products are offered by members of the Sun Life Financial group that are insurance companies. In the United States, Sun Life Financial provides a range of products and services to employers and their employees, including Group and Voluntary Life, Disability, Dental, Critical Illness, Accident, and Stop-Loss insurance products. Product offerings may not be available in all states and may vary depending on state laws and regulations. For more information, please visit www.sunlife.com/us.

SLPC 25917; appvd; 06/14 (exp: 06/19)