Knight, based in Denver, will work with financial professionals in Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming to distribute the company's 401(k) plans to the corporate market.
Since joining Great-West Life and Annuity Insurance Co. in 1997, Knight has worked in areas, including relationship management, financial accounting and, most recently, internal sales.
Great-West Retirement Services, a business unit of Great-West Life and Annuity Insurance Co., is the fourth-largest retirement plan record keeper in the United States by number of participants as of Dec. 31, according to a ranking by Spectrem Group, of Chicago.
Great-West Retirement Services provided retirement plan services to nearly 21,000 plans representing 3.7 million participants and assets of $92 billion as of Dec. 31, 2008.