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Thank you to the Principal Financial Group
We were very excited to welcome the Principal Financial Group on board as a premier sponsor of our inaugural Thinc Iowa. We had the Principal in mind immediately when we decided on a theme of “the common ground between startups and corporations,” as there is no more visible symbol of established corporations in Iowa than…
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Thinc Iowa Video Series: Luke Vandermillen of The Principal
The eighth speaker in our Video Series is Luke Vandermillen, who heads up marketing for retirement and investor services at the Principal Financial Group, a Des Moines-based financial services provider. A Fortune 500 company founded in 1879, The Principal is firmly entrenched on the “corporation” side of the conversation between startups and …
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Thinc Iowa: Luke Vandermillen – ‘You listen, you evolve and you innovate’
With Thinc Iowa only a few hours old, a strong theme was already emerging when Luke Vandermillen, who leads marketing for retirement and investor services at the Principal Financial Group, took the stage: the importance of listening to the customer. I think it’s a stereotype that large firms don’t listen and the small ones do.…