Mutual Benefit Group's Rick Laabs
After 26 years in various IT-related jobs in the insurance industry, Rick Laabs has gone from programming codes such as Assembler and 3GL to case tools to early client-server and object-oriented environments. "I've experienced it all," says Laabs, CIO at Mutual Benefit Group in Huntingdon, Pa. "And the new frontier doesn't scare me. In fact, I find it very exciting."
Laabs' excitement began when he took his first computer science course while a student at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point. "I was intrigued by technology and its ever-changing dimensions," he says. "I enjoyed learning new things and figured this was an environment in which I constantly would be challenged to do that. Little did I know it would change as fast as it does."
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