Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> September 3, 2001

Harry Waterfield Ii – Kentucky Investors Inc (kinv)

HARRY LEE WATERFIELD II is President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Investors of Heritage Life Insurance Company and Kentucky Investors, Inc. Mr. Waterfield graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1965. He served five years as an officer of the National Association of Life Companies, the last of which was Chairman of the Board. He received the Association's Poindexter Award in 1990. He was one of three founders of the National Alliance of Life Companies and served as the first president of the organization, a position he held two years. In 1995, he received that organization's first Governor's Award. Currently he is Director of the State National Bank, Frankfort, Kentucky; a member of the Board of Trustees, Murray State University Foundation, Murray, Kentucky; a member of the Board of Trustees of Lees College Foundation, Jackson, Kentucky; and a member of the Board of Regents, of Kentucky State University, Frankfort, Kentucky, serving as Vice Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Finance and Administration Committee. He is Past President of the Frankfort/Franklin County Chamber of Commerce and Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Frankfort, and Vice Chairman of the Frankfort Tourist and Convention Commission. He is a former Board member of Junior Achievement of Frankfort, the Kentucky State Fair Board and the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. In 1975, he was named one of Kentucky's Five Outstanding Young Men. Profile
TWST: Could you begin with a brief historical sketch of the company and

then an overview of things that the company is doing now?

Mr. Waterfield: Kentucky Investors, Inc. is the holding