American Equity Investment Life Holding Company announced that Tolga Uzuner will become Chief Investment Officer (CIO), Asset Management, of American Equity. Uzuner will be responsible for executing the company’s alpha asset strategy and building its subsidiary asset management firm. Uzuner will have a significant role in American Equity’s 2.0 investment management strategy pillar. He will partner with Jim Hamalainen, Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Insurance and Jeff Lorenzen, Chief Risk Officer (CRO) of AEL. Uzuner and Hamalainen will function as co-CIOs, leading one integrated investment function and partnering to broaden the company’s investment management capabilities and revenue generation sources including through partnerships. Previous to American Equity, Uzuner served as Managing Director of Investments at JP Morgan Chase, prior to transitioning to Apollo Global Management where he ran and built investment offices in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Most recently, he owned his own firm, Austra Global, providing an outsourced CIO function to new private equity entrants to insurance.