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Spring of 2020 brought some good news for companies and individuals, including promotions, awards, partnerships and mergers. Here's a sample of what we've seen of late.

Transamerica announced several appointments:

• Blake Bostwick was appointed Chief Executive Officer of its Individual Solutions division. Mr. Bostwick will also lead the organization's retail affiliates that distribute life insurance, long term care, annuities and funds. In his new role, Mr. Bostwick continues reporting to Mark Mullin, Transamerica President and CEO, and heads the existing leadership team within the Individual Solutions division.
• Kent Callahan was appointed Chief Executive Officer of its Workplace Solutions division. Mr. Callahan has more than three decades of experience with Transamerica, and previously ledTransamerica business lines in retirement, employee benefits and investment solutions. In his new role, Mr. Callahan reports to Mark Mullin, Transamerica President and CEO.

Randstad USA announced a partnership with health care staffing firm AMN Healthcare. The first highly visible implementation of this partnership is the Open Talent Marketplace for Healthcare, designed to provide state coalitions, federal agencies and hospital systems with rapid access to hundreds of staffing vendors and tens of thousands of clinicians, health IT professionals, office personnel and other talent. Developed as a resource hospitals could use to surge staff in light of COVID-19, the concept also is tailored to the post-COVID environment.

Former Assistant Secretary of Labor Phyllis Borzi has been awarded the Plan Sponsor Council of America's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award for 2020. From 2009 to 2017 Ms. Borzi was head of the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) where she led the organization responsible for the regulation of approximately 700,000 employer-sponsored retirement plans in the private-sector as well approximately 2.3 million health plans, and other plans providing benefits to approximately 150 million Americans from 2009 through 2017. From 1979 to 1995, she served the House Education and Labor Committee's Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations as pension and employee benefit counsel and later served on the advisory board of the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER).  Borzi went on to serve as a research professor in the Department of Health Policy at George Washington University Medical Center's School of Public Health, and was later of counsel with the Washington, D.C. law firm O'Donoghue & O'Donoghue LLP.