EXHIBIT 99.A.1.  

                 Form of Certificate of the Resolution of the Board of Directors
                 establishing the VUL segment of the Separate Account.



The undersigned hereby certifies that she is the  Secretary of Massachusetts
Mutual Life Insurance Company (the "Company"); that the following vote was
adopted by means of an instrument of unanimous written consent of the Board of
Directors of the Company dated                    ; and that the said vote has
been neither rescinded nor modified, but remains in full force and effect:

     VOTED:

           That in connection with the development of a new variable universal
     life insurance product (the "VUL Policy"), the Company establish a segment
     of Massachusetts Mutual Variable Life Separate Account I (the "Separate
     Account") in order to invest contributions received under the VUL Policy;
     that the appropriate officers of the Company be, and each acting singly
     hereby is, authorized to execute all documents or take any other action
     which said officer deems necessary or advisable in order to permit the sale
     of the VUL Policy, including the filing of registration statements or
     amendments thereto with the United States Securities and Exchange
     Commission or other appropriate regulatory authorities; and that the chief
     executive officer or the chief operating officer of the Company be, and
     each acting singly hereby is, authorized to establish additional segments
     of the Separate Account or further divide any segment of the Separate
     Account into additional divisions, as such officer in his discretion deems
     necessary or appropriate.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed my hand and the seal of the Company
this    day of



                               Secretary