John Hemmings

John D. Hemmings Jr. is an Alfa Insurance finance and investment executive based in Montgomery, Alabama. Alfa Insurance announced in 2025 that Hemmings had been promoted to Executive Vice President, Chief Financial and Investment Officer, effective June 26, 2025.

Hemmings previously served as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer. The Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce reported that Alfa President Jimmy Parnell promoted Hemmings to CFO in mid-May 2017, while Hemmings continued as Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, a CIO role he had held since 2011.

His role centers on Alfa’s financial functions and investment portfolio. In the 2017 CFO announcement, Parnell said Hemmings had “played a vital role in charting a course for greater profitability” and would provide coordinated leadership to Alfa’s Investment and Finance Department staff.

Public records and nonprofit filings also show Hemmings in Alabama civic and governance roles. Georgia Secretary of State filings list John D. Hemmings as CFO of Alfa Mutual Insurance Company, Alfa Foundation filings list John D. Hemmings Jr. as treasurer, and Goodwill Industries of Central Alabama’s 2024 nonprofit data lists John Hemmings as a board member. MarketScreener network data links him to undergraduate study at the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Auburn University.

• Alfa’s directly documented private investment activity is institutional rather than seed-stage angel investing; I found no verified evidence that Hemmings personally invests as a seed angel.
• Hemmings’s most explicit stated investment posture is long-term corporate partnership. In connection with Alfa’s Fidelis investment, he said Alfa “seeks to be a long-term partner” and is dedicated to helping Fidelis build “a successful and profitable company.”
• Alfa’s documented private-market activity includes a $60 million corporate minority investment in Fidelis in December 2020, plus reported fund commitments to Ardian Secondary Fund IX and Harbinger/Aurora Ventures.
• Private Equity International lists Alfa Insurance’s investment appetite as North America-focused, with secondaries and biotech / life science shown among the reported strategy/sector tags.
• For founders, this profile points to strategic or institutional relevance to insurance, reinsurance, financial services, and private-market investing, rather than broad early-stage startup coverage.