Maria R. Morris
Executive Vice President, Technology & Operations
MetLife, Inc.

Maria R. Morris, age 46, is executive vice president and head of technology and operations for MetLife.  She was appointed to this position in January 2008.

In this role, Morris oversees MetLife’s information technology organization as well as the customer response and global operations support centers.

Previously, Morris served as executive vice president, employee benefits sales within the Institutional Business segment for MetLife.  Since December 2005 she oversaw the group insurance and retirement and savings sales forces that generated approximately $14 billion in annual revenues.  Under Morris’s leadership, Institutional Business achieved record sales and drove strong revenue growth in part through the retention and expansion of the company’s extensive client relationships.

From 2003 to 2005, Morris served as senior vice president of group insurance sales and individual disability.  In this role, she was responsible for MetLife’s small business center, group regional operations and individual disability product management and sales.  In 2004, she assumed oversight of the company’s National Accounts organization as well as voluntary benefits and group insurance service operations.

As the vice president of MetLife’s group disability business from 2000 to 2003, Morris had profit and loss responsibility overseeing product development and management as well as claims operations.  From 1996 to 2000, Morris had similar responsibilities for MetLife’s dental product and also managed the preferred dentist network.  Under her leadership, revenue and profitability substantially grew, while an efficient claims model was implemented. Morris joined MetLife in 1984, first as an account administrator in the company’s National Accounts organization, and then held a number of roles with increasing responsibility. 

Morris is a selected member of the YWCA Academy of Women Achievers.  In 2005, Morris was recognized by Profiles in Diversity Journal Magazine as one of a number of “Women to Watch.”

Morris serves on the board of MetLife Securities, Inc.  She is also a member of the INROADS National Board of Directors, as well as a member of the All Stars Project, Inc. Board of Directors, a non-profit organization focused on developing young people.  She received a B.A. from Franklin and Marshall College, magna cum laude, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. 

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