Sandy Callahan

Sandra (Sandy) Callahan is ReedGroup’s Chief Executive Officer and a Senior Vice President at Guardian Life Insurance Company. A veteran insurance industry leader, Sandy has extensive absence and disability experience along with group benefits expertise spanning financial management, talent development, operations, and customer satisfaction.

Over the course of her career, Sandy has had responsibilities for strategic, operational and financial oversight of a variety of Group insurance business lines and has successfully designed and launched dynamic business models that have challenged industry norms.

Most recently, Sandy was with The Hartford where she was Senior Vice President for Group Insurance Operations responsible for Aetna’s integration following the company’s acquisition, for which she played an instrumental role in facilitating. Prior to that she was president of Aetna’s Group Insurance business, leading nearly 2,000 employees and driving the strategic vision for the $2.2B product portfolio. Sandy also has held senior leadership roles at Lincoln Financial Group and the Mutual of Omaha.

Sandy and her husband of 38 years have three children and one granddaughter.