Kevin W. Blanton, JD
AVP & Associate Counsel
Kevin Blanton is Associate Counsel and Assistant Vice President of the Advanced Markets Group.  Before joining John Hancock, Mr. Blanton was in private practice for several years, providing estate planning and general tax services to high net worth clients.  Mr. Blanton has provided tax compliance for several large mutual fund companies in Boston and served as bond counsel to many of the municipalities and state agencies in the New England area.  He received his BA in economics from the University of Michigan and graduated cum laude from Boston University School of Law.

Caroline McKay, JD

Associate Counsel, Advanced Markets

Caroline provides advanced marketing support to John Hancock’s home office employees, field personnel, and producers. Before joining John Hancock, Caroline was in private practice in the Boston area where she concentrated her practice on estate planning, probate, business succession planning, and charitable planning for moderate and high net worth individuals and companies. Caroline received her BA, magna cum laude, from Colby College and her JD, cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School. While at Suffolk Law, Caroline was a member of the Law Review and was published in the Suffolk University Law Review.

David McNamara, JD, CFP®, CLU, ChFC, FLMI 

Financial Underwriting - Advanced Markets
David is the Advanced Markets Financial Underwriting Liaison.  In this role, he works closely with the Underwriting department to provide consulting support on all aspects of non-medical underwriting, including Financial Underwriting, Underwriting Research and tele-client interviews.  Prior to joining the group, Dave worked in various roles, including Advanced Markets, sales support and call centre He received his BA from the University of Massachusetts and his JD from Suffolk University Law School.

Josiah K. Winslow, J.D.

Advanced Markets and Underwriting - Attorney

Josh Winslow is a Director and Attorney in the Advanced Markets Group.  In his current position, Mr. Winslow specializes in working with complex financial and premium-financed cases and issues related to proposed policy ownership and titling scenarios. Prior to joining John Hancock Mr. Winslow spent ten years working in financial sales and estate planning as a wholesaler dedicated to developing new producers for a large Mutual Fund and Annuity distributor and he worked in the back office of a large private bank group. Mr. Winslow received a BA in Economics from Northwestern University, and his JD cum laude with a Business Law and Financial Services concentration, with distinction, from Suffolk University Law School.

Richard L. Gutowski, CLU, ChFC, CFP®
Senior Advanced Markets Consultant

Richard Gutowski is a Senior Advanced Markets Consultant providing advanced case design support in estate planning, executive benefit plans, and business succession planning cases. Rich has over thirty years of experience in the Life Insurance industry which began with the Boston branch of Manulife Financial. Prior to joining the Advanced Markets Group Rich also worked with agencies that specialized in Executive Benefits and Estate Planning, providing technical sales support and administration both pre-sale and post-sale. He is a graduate of Bentley College and received both a BS in Management and an AS in Accounting.

John F. Harrison, CLU, ChFC
Advanced Markets Manager
John Harrison, Director of the Advanced Markets Group, manages the Advanced Marketing Consultants.  The consultant team focuses on case design and sales support to producers in the field and other departments in home office.  John specializes in designing executive benefit plans and gained this experience working 10 years for one of the world’s largest insurance brokerage companies in their Boston office.  He began his insurance career with the Boston branch of Manulife Financial working in the Brokerage division.  John earned a liberal arts degree from Siena College in New York and a Masters degree in Social Work from Boston College.

Joseph N. Scianna, CLU, ChFC
Sr. Advanced Markets Consultant
Joe Scianna is an Advanced Markets Consultant who specializes in estate planning cases. Prior to joining John Hancock, Joe worked at Merrill Lynch as their Business Development Associate within the Wealth Management Services Group. Joe has over 25 years experience in the finance and insurance industry, specializing in the estate and business planning market while an Agent, and, Advanced Market Training while at  Prudential Insurance.

William R. Vigor, CFP®, CLU, ChFC, CLTC

Advanced Markets Consultant

Bill joined the Advanced Markets Group in 2007 after 4 years of wholesaling experience with John Hancock’s Life and Long Term Care Divisions.  He provides advanced marketing support and case design within all of John Hancock’s distribution channels. He has also worked as an Equity Trader on Wall Street and as a Financial Advisor for two other major financial services firms. Bill received his Bachelors of Business Administration from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at The University of Michigan.

Heather L. Robinson

Advanced Markets Consultant

Heather Robinson joined the Advanced Markets group in 2012 after spending six years in John Hancock’s Life Product Management group as a Senior Product Manager.  In that role she managed the Accumulation product line as well as the COLI, BOLI and International products, working closely with our pricing actuaries and distribution partners to develop and market competitive products.  Heather joined John Hancock in 1999 as a Case Design Analyst in the Corporate Products and Design Group primarily responsible for helping producers design and illustrate various executive compensation plans.  She received her BA in Mathematics from the University of New Hampshire graduating cum laude.

Michael J. Walker, CLU, ChFC,

Senior Advanced Markets Consultant

Michael Walker is a Senior Advanced Markets Consultant for John Hancock Life Insurance. He has over 15 years experience in the financial services industry. As a consultant, Mike works to provide case design and support for estate, business and charitable Life Insurance planning concepts. Mike currently acts as External Liaison for John Hancock Financial Network. In this role, he works on promoting Advanced Markets as well as updating the JHFN member firms on the latest tax, legislative and other issues impacting the life insurance industry. Prior to joining the Advanced Markets Group, Mike  was a National Sales Associate.  He received his BA from the University of Massachusetts.

Cynthia Crino, CLU

AVP of Life Insurance Concept Marketing, Advanced Markets

Cynthia Crino is the AVP of Life Insurance Concept Marketing in the Advanced Markets unit at John Hancock. Within the Advanced Markets group, Cynthia is responsible for the building and marketing of the proprietary JH Solutions software system, which illustrates a wide range of estate and business planning concepts.  Additionally, she is also responsible for the creation and distribution of Marketing pieces for the department.  Cynthia has twenty years of experience in the industry, and is well versed in both estate planning and corporate owned life insurance. Cynthia holds a BA in Mathematics/Anthropology, cum laude from Wellesley College.

Rachel Baril

Sr. Administrative Specialist

Rachel works as an administrative assistant to the Advanced Markets department, and also assists in marketing as it pertains to updating the JH SalesNet website and the handling of contracts for the JH Solutions software. Rachel is a member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, and received BA degrees in Art and Theatre Arts from Westfield State College, graduating summa cum laude.

Ana Medinaceli
Marketing Manager
Ana is the marketing manager for the Advanced Markets Group, and is responsible for all marketing materials.  Prior to joining the Advanced Markets Group, Ana gained experience as a financial advisor for over five and a half years and most recently she worked as an Advanced Markets Consultant.  She received her BA from Wellesley College graduating cum laude.  

Lucinda S. Thomas

Senior Marketing Analyst

Lucinda is a Senior Marketing Analyst for the Advanced Markets Group.  She is responsible for managing the Continuing Education process and the John Hancock qualified plans sold by the former Qualified Retirement Plans Group. Prior to joining the Advanced Markets Group, Lucinda was Manager of the John Hancock Qualified Retirement Plans Group as well as New Business Manager for JHFN.  Lucinda has over sixteen years of experience in the life insurance industry. She received her BA from Kenyon College and is currently the Kenyon Regional Alumni President for Boston.