W. Kenny Massey, LeClaire, Iowa, is president and CEO of Modern Woodmen of America. He serves as presiding officer of Modern Woodmen’s Board of Directors and serves on the board of directors for MWABank, an FDIC-insured savings bank, 100 percent owned by Modern Woodmen.

Massey joined Modern Woodmen in January 1982 as a district agent in Mississippi. He became a district representative in June 1982 and was promoted to district manager in 1985.  He was named manager of the western Louisiana agency in 1988. He became director of agencies in June 1997, overseeing marketing and sales efforts and the administration of Modern Woodmen's nationwide field force. Massey was appointed to Modern Woodmen’s Board of Directors in 2002, and he was named president and CEO in 2005.  

Massey holds a business degree from Mississippi State University and has earned the Fraternal Insurance Counsellor Fellow designation.  He has also completed the Kinder Advanced Management Academy, the Purdue University Professional Management Institute and the Agency Management Training Council. Massey recently earned the LIMRA Leadership Institute Fellow designation, in conjunction with Babson College.

Massey serves as past president and board member for the Fraternal Field Managers’ Association. He is a member of the Executive Development Committee, which serves as an advisory group to LIMRA International for the Strategies for Executive Advancement Courses and the LIMRA Leadership Institute Fellow designation.

He serves on the Board of Directors for the Illinois Quad City Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Air Service Committee, Quad City Development Group and Quad City Contributors Council. At Modern Woodmen he serves on the Product Implementation and Administration Committee and the Fraternal Committee.

He and his wife, Tammy, have a son and two daughters.