John R. Hoffman, St. Louis Park, Minn., received the 2010 Distinguished Young Alumni Award from Minnesota State University, Mankato last week.
Hoffman, regional managing director of the Minnesota Business Center for Principal Financial Group, is one of 12 alumni who are 2010 award winners. He was honored at an April 23 dinner and ceremony hosted by the Minnesota State Mankato Alumni Association.
The Distinguished Young Alumni Award goes to graduates 35 years old or younger who have reached professional achievements early in their careers, and have positively impacted their communities.
When Hoffman was a sophomore at Minnesota State Mankato, he convinced his parents to help him with a down-payment on a house where he and his friends would live for three years and then sell. He sold the house, paid his parents, netted a tidy return, and graduated with a degree in international relations.
He joined Principal Financial Group, a leading global financial company, and played a key role in the success of the company’s Sioux Falls, S.D., business center. He was selected for in the company’s fast-track executive management training program.
In 2003 he was promoted to the company’s Minnesota Business Center and named a managing director, and in 2009 was promoted to regional managing director. He is the youngest person to ever serve in such a position throughout the company.
Hoffman has consistently been honored for sales growth, recruiting and retention. He is a six-time Management Achievement Round Table qualifier and has received several General Agency Management Association Career Development Awards and a 2010 Master Agency Award.
He serves on the board of the Minneapolis branch of the National Association of Insurance and Finance Advisors and is a member and past president of the General Agency Management Association of Minnesota. Recently he was recognized by Finance and Commerce as a 2010 “Minnesotan on the Move.”
Those who want more information about the Minnesota State Mankato Distinguished Alumni Awards may go to www.mnsu.edu/alumni/daa/.
Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive, doctoral university with 14,950 students, is part of the Minnesota State Colleges & Universities system, which comprises 32 institutions across the state.
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