Get to know your hosts of TEN (Tech. Entrepreneurs. Nebraska.) as they chat about their backgrounds into tech, and how this podcast came to be!
Brian Poppe is Senior Vice President of Income and Wealth Planning at Mutual of Omaha. He provides strategic direction, ensures growth and profitability, manages risk as well as return, and manages the end-to-end customer experience for the Income and Wealth Planning strategic business unit.
Poppe joined Mutual of Omaha in 2009 and served in a variety of actuarial roles on both the product side and the corporate side, including starting the innovation practice at Mutual. He has successfully led the Departing Well strategic business unit as well as served as Chief Data Officer; Senior Vice President of Technology Modernization; Vice President of Innovation Strategy; and Vice President of Enterprise Risk Management. Before coming to Mutual, Poppe was a Senior Actuarial Assistant at the Lincoln Financial Group.
Formerly an Information Services Manager for Mutual of Omaha for nearly 5 years, Shonna is now the Executive Director for the Nebraska Tech Collaborative and interim Executive Director for InternNE, both Powered by Aksarben.
Previously, Shonna was a Sr. Business Systems Consultant for Mutual of Omaha, an Adjunct Instructor for MindSet, LLC teaching themes around culture, leadership and inclusivity, and she was the Vice President of Business Development and Tech Talent at the AIM Institute.
