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Welcome to Group Insurance
Medical Underwriting

Leadership

Dina Linarducci

Director

Located: Roseland, NJ

Experience: 20+ years in Group Insurance: 6+ years in Medical Underwriting

Personal Item: I'm a happy dog 
mom, with a rescue pup from Florida named Baci.

Aneesah Fain

Manager

Located: Roseland, NJ

Experience: 18 years in Group Insurance: 13 years in Disability; 
5 years in Medical Underwriting

Personal Item: I love cycling and Zumba. I like to travel. My favorite vacation destinations are Bermuda, Cuba, Las Vegas, and Miami.

Belinda Tuneblom

Manager

Located: Roseland, NJ

Experience: 29 years in Group Insurance: 21 years in Medical Underwriting

Personal Item: I like to ski. I travel 
to southern Vermont several times a year to ski with my husband and our two boys.

Intake (Data Entry)

Terek Youngblood

Senior Intake Analysis

Located: Roseland, NJ

Experience: 24 years in Group Insurance: 21 years in Medical Underwriting

Personal Item: I like weight training and boxing. I met my wife at Prudential 24 years ago. We've been married 
for 24 years and have two daughters 
in college.

LaVerne Dent

Administrative Associate

Located: Roseland, NJ

Experience: 29 years with Prudential: 16 years in Medical Underwriting

Personal Item: I love spending time with my kids and grandkids, especially cooking and playing games with the little ones.

Amelan Assale

Intake Analyst

Located: Roseland, NJ

Experience: 20 years in Group Insurance: 18 years in Medical Underwriting

Personal Item: I like to cook. 
I always try new dishes from the 
Food Network shows.

Phonda Carter

Administration Associate

Located: Roseland, NJ

Experience: 21 years in Group Insurance Medical Underwriting

Personal Item: I love all outdoor activities.

Samantha Smith

Intake Analyst

Located: Roseland, NJ

Experience: 12 years in Group Insurance Medical Underwriting

Personal Item: I like to binge watch comedies from the '80s and '90s.

Medical Underwriters / Medical Underwriter Specialists (Techs)

Victor Reynolds

Senior Medical Underwriter

Located: Roseland, NJ

Experience: 20 years in Group Insurance Medical Underwriting

Personal Item: I am a fine-art photographer who is featured in Prudential-sponsored and local 
art exhibits.

Jeff Spoehr

Senior Medical Underwriter

Located: Fully Remote, Wisconsin

Experience: 27 years in Group Insurance: 11 years in Medical Underwriting

Personal Item: I learned to scuba dive about four years ago, and I am now the president of our local scuba club.

Karen Mais

Senior Medical Underwriter

Located: Roseland, NJ

Experience: 20 years in Group Insurance Medical Underwriting

Personal Item: I love to travel and spend time with my family (husband of 25 years and three children).

Denise Anthony

Senior Medical Underwriter

Located: Roseland, NJ

Experience: 20 years in Group Insurance Medical Underwriting

Personal Item: I love to travel abroad.

Andrena Copeland

Senior Medical Underwriter

Located: Fully Remote, Connecticut

Experience: 28 years of Medical Underwriting experience in the Group Insurance, Individual Life, Disability, Association, and Reinsurance markets

Personal Item: My favorite season 
is summer. I love to travel with my family (husband of 16 years and 
my daughter).

Eileen Rivera-Towey, RN, CCM

Medical Underwriting Specialist

Located: Roseland, NJ

Experience: 6 years in Group Insurance Medical Underwriting, 
with 21 years' experience as a nurse case manager

Personal Item: I help provide care to the elderly in my church as well as in my community as needed.

Mary DiTuro, LPN

Medical Underwriting Specialist

Located: Fully Remote, Florida

Experience: 12 years in Group Insurance: 24 years' experience 
in nursing

Personal Item: I volunteer for the Emergency Medical Response Team for my community.

Veronica Nelson

Medical Underwriting Specialist

Located: Roseland, NJ

Experience: 32 years in Group Insurance Medical Underwriting

Personal Item: My deep love for family and others motivates me to teach interested individuals how to get the most from their lives. I have a husband of 28 years and 3 daughters, and we love 
to travel.

Carol Hogans

Medical Underwriting Specialist

Located: Roseland, NJ

Experience: 42 years in Group Insurance: 30 years in Medical Underwriting

Personal Item: I enjoy tutoring children in my community. My husband and I have 3 adult children and adorable grandkids. We enjoy going to Broadway plays and Disney World.

Client Liaison / Client Resolution

Janet Peak

Senior Client Services Specialist

Located: Fully Remote, Maryland

Experience: 13 years in Group Insurance: 9 years in Medical Underwriting

Personal Item: For the past nine years, I've been a Girl Scout leader for my 
14- and 10-year-old daughters.

Melissa Johnson

Senior Customer Service Associate, Customer Resolution Team

Located: Roseland, NJ

Experience: 17 Years in Group Insurance, Medical Underwriting

Personal Item: I love jazz, meditating on the beach, and watching the waves.