Leon Roday is joining the Randor, Pennsylvania-headquartered Lincoln Financial Group as executive vice president and general counsel, effective Friday.

Roday joins Lincoln Financial from Genworth Financial Inc., where he had served as GC and corporate secretary since the company’s $2.83 billion initial public offering in 2004, according to a 2013 report by Corporate Counsel affiliate The American Lawyer. At Lincoln Financial, Roday succeeds Kirkland Hicks, who resigned to take a midcareer break to travel abroad, a Lincoln Financial spokeswoman said in an email.