Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> June 28, 2004
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
Investors and then a picture of the things you're doing at the present
time?
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