The wholesale distribution subsidiary of Lincoln Financial Group announces the addition of Tim Seifert as vice president, national sales manager, of the intermediary retirement plan services business. Seifert is responsible for expanding Lincoln’s small market retirement plan services sales force, while ensuring advisers continue to receive quality service. Additionally, he is tasked with developing and implementing strategies that increase awareness of Lincoln’s broad portfolio of retirement plan solutions, and helping advisers bring quality retirement outcomes to their clients.

“We are committed to further strengthening Lincoln’s reputation as the industry’s leading authority on retirement plan services and broadening our footprint in the marketplace,” says John Kennedy, head of Lincoln’s retirement solutions distribution unit. “Our growth and sales efforts continue to prosper, and Seifert’s nearly three decades of financial services experience, vast knowledge and expertise in all areas of distribution, and proven history of creating exponential growth in the intermediary channel will help take our expansion initiative to a new level.”

Seifert has held senior sales leadership roles at Prudential and RS Investments and has spent 23 years at PLANCO Financial Services Group. He holds a bachelor of science degree in marketing from Elizabethtown College.