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Michael Hydanus

After East High, I attended MATC (AA - IT) and Lakeland College (Sheboygan - BA Business). During school days I worked in IT at Anchor S&L and my first real career job was with Wisconsin Power & Light as Data Ctr. mgr. for six years.

In 1979 I met Pat, we were married in 1981 and are still an 'item' today! We have not had any children.

Pat and I lived in Madison for nearly 40 years and think fondly of Madison and have many friends there still today. But in 1995 we said 'we can't take this snow any more!'

With a new opportunity in Memphis, we loaded up the truck (in the middle of a 25 inch snow storm) and headed south (yes, we did sell our his/her snow blowers!).

Proving it is a small world, we bought a house in Germantown TN right around the corner from Tom & Kay McCarthy!

Since leaving Madison in 1995, I have had many wonderful career opportunities which had us moving all over the country - some great experiences. We are now in Austin and LOVE IT. Austin is very much like Madison (large university, lakes, state government, etc.) but, NO SNOW. Winter in Austin is usually on a Tuesday or Wednesday in February!

In order to save time and not have to deal with my memory, here is a cut/paste from my corporate bio:

Mr. Hydanus joined FIC in Austin in May 2005 as Senior Vice President – Corporate Operations. He assumed the responsibilities of Interim President and Chief Executive Officer from November 2005 through January 2007.

Mr. Hydanus has more than 25 years of management experience in the life insurance industry.

Prior to Financial Industries in Austin, Mr. Hydanus was founder/President/owner of Sage Consulting Group, LLC, headquarted in Los Angeles. His consulting company provided executive level operational and technical consulting services to many clients, including a worldwide pension and insurance management organization, an industry-leading insurance policy administration outsourcing organization and a regional technology services organization.

Mr. Hydanus' first west coast endeavor was in Los Angeles, where he was Chief Operations Officer and Chief Information Officer of Security First Group (a MetLife company) where he led a large enterprise integration project that ultimately consolidated all operations into other corporate sites.

Before that, Mr. Hydanus worked as the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer concurrently for the Baltimore Life Companies in Owings Mills, MD and Columbian Financial Group in Binghamton, NY.

From 1995 to 1998, Hydanus was instrumental in building the fastest growing annuity company in the history of the insurance industry, Delta Life & Annuity in Memphis, TN. While with Delta, Mr. Hydanus was a part of the team which designed the first ever Equity Indexed Annuity product - that today represents approximately 40% of all annuities sold worldwide.

Mr. Hydanus held several corporate operation leadership positions with National Guardian Life in Madison, WI. In his early career, he served in several management capacities within the electric utility, property & casualty insurance and savings and loan industries.

Mr. Hydanus received a B.A. in Business Administration from Lakeland College. He also holds the following industry certifications: Fellow, Life Office Management Institute (FLMI) from the Life Office Management Association (LOMA); Associate, Customer Service (ACS) from LOMA; and is completing Chartered Life Underwriter and Chartered Financial Consultant (CLU/ChFC) insurance industry certifications from the American College.

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