Business Experience

• Russell Jan Pinney began his first life insurance agency—the R. Jan Pinney General Agency of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Company—in 1972. In 1975, it was incorporated as Pinney Insurance Center, Inc. It is a life insurance brokerage general agency, servicing over 4,000 life insurance agents nationwide, and representing over 60 life insurance companies.
• In 2002, Russell Jan Pinney created an online consumer-based life insurance website called Wholesale Insurance. Pinney Wholesale Insurance Services, Inc. is a life insurance website where consumers can compare rates from various life insurance companies at the same time.
• LifeMark Partners: Russell Jan Pinney is a member of LifeMark Partners Board of Directors. LifeMark Partners is a "single production source comprised nationally of 43 independent life brokerage agencies".

Volunteer Business Experience

• National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA): Pinney served as President of NAIFA California from 2004-2005.
• Russell Jan Pinney is a founder of the National Society of Agents for Consumer Education and is currently the Chairman of the Life Insurance Board for NSACE.
• Russell Jan Pinney is a member of The International Forum and the Association For Advanced Life Underwriting (AALU).

School Board Tenure

• Russell Jan Pinney was appointed to the Roseville Joint Union High School District
  Roseville Joint Union High School District
  Roseville Joint Union High School District is a school district that consists of 5 regular high schools, 2 continuation high schools and an adult school...
  
   Board of Trustees in 1995 to fill a vacant seat. He was reelected in 1996, 2000, and 2004, serving for 13 years straight on the school board. His current term is up in 2008.
• Russell Jan Pinney voted against the controversial "Quality Science Education Policy," keeping anti-evolution theories from being taught (against State laws) in local high schools.
• Russell Jan Pinney voted against allowing students to be released from school without parent's knowledge or consent for confidential medical treatments.

Awards

• Russell Jan Pinney is a 30-year Life and Qualifying Member of the Million Dollar Round Table
  Million dollar round table
  The Million Dollar Round Table, abbreviated MDRT is a professional trade association formed in 1927 to help insurance salespeople and financial advisors establish best business practices and develop ethical and effective ways to increase client interest in financial products, specifically risk...
  
  , as well as a member of Top of the Table. To be a member of Top of the Table you must distinguish yourself by "producing at a level six times that of MDRT membership requirements."

National and Local Publications

• Russell Jan Pinney was quoted in the national magazine Advisors Today articles "Making Your Business a Top-Flight Operation" and "Know Your Score."
• Jan Pinney has been quoted numerous times in the Sacramento Bee.

Appearing Before Governmental Bodies

• Russell Jan Pinney has testified and spoke before the California Senate Insurance Committee, The California Department of Insurance, and the Association of California Life and Health Insurance Companies.