Paul Shelby Amos II is president of Aflac and chief operating officer, Aflac and Aflac New York. Mr. Amos joined Aflac in 2002 as state sales coordinator for Georgia-North. By 2004, he had grown the Georgia-North territory from seven regions and 40 districts to 13 regions and over 80 districts. Under his leadership, Georgia-North became the top-producing of Aflac’s 87 state operations in terms of new annualized premium sales. In January 2005, after his success in the field, Mr. Amos was promoted to executive vice president of U.S. Operations and charged with increasing consumers’ understanding of Aflac products, enhancing agent training and maximizing operational efficiencies. During his tenure, he has developed career progression and training programs to enhance the effectiveness of newly promoted management and restructured Aflac’s U.S. operations to optimize synergies between the field force and headquarters employees. Mr. Amos holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Duke University and a master’s degree in business administration from Emory University. He also holds a juris doctor degree from Tulane University.