Allianz Life Hires Mundt as VP of Infrastructure

Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North America named Tom Mundt as VP of infrastructure in the IT division. In this role, Mundt will be responsible for leading overall infrastructure strategy, including assessing hardware and software options, managing provider relationships, and providing incident management for Allianz Life. He also will serve as the key IT contact with the parent company, Allianz SE. In this role, Mundt will report to the senior VP and CIO, Jeff Palm.

Allianz Life says that, before he joined the company, Mundt was a senior executive with Accenture in Minneapolis for eight years, where he was responsible for the delivery of IT infrastructure outsourcing services to more than 70 North American clients. Prior to his tenure at Accenture, Mundt was a senior executive for four years with Best Buy Co. Inc., where he led more than 450 IT professionals, contractors, and third-party service providers. Mundt also held various IT roles at American Express Financial Advisors, currently known as Ameriprise Financial Inc., where he worked for 14 years.