Board of Directors
Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer
MetLife, Inc.
Steven A. Kandarian is chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET), a leading provider of insurance, annuities and employee benefit programs to 90 million customers worldwide. He became president and CEO on May 1, 2011 and chairman of the board of directors on January 1, 2012. For 2011, MetLife had $70.3 billion in revenue and ranks 34th on the FORTUNE 500®.
Kandarian joined MetLife in April 2005 as executive vice president and chief investment officer (CIO). Since 2007, he has also overseen MetLife's enterprise-wide strategy, which identified key areas of focus for the company. Specifically, his direction contributed to MetLife's recent global expansion and led to significant cost savings as well as efforts to address the insurance needs of the underserved U.S. middle market.
As CIO, Kandarian oversaw the company's more than $450 billion general account portfolio and led a number of initiatives that strengthened the portfolio and contributed to MetLife's bottom line. He enhanced the company's focus on effective risk management and diversified MetLife's investment portfolio, in part through the $5.4 billion sale of Peter Cooper Village/Stuyvesant Town in 2006. Under Kandarian's leadership, MetLife identified the housing bubble early and reduced its exposure to sub-prime mortgage-backed securities, raised the overall quality of its corporate credit portfolio, and increased its focus on low loan-to-value commercial and agricultural mortgages. His efforts helped MetLife emerge from the 2008 credit crisis with the financial strength to complete the company’s $16 billion purchase of Alico.
From 2001 to 2004, Kandarian was executive director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). During his tenure, he made the public case for comprehensive reform of the pension funding rules to put the defined benefit system and the PBGC on a sound financial footing, helping to lay the groundwork for the enactment of the Pension Protection Act of 2006.
Previously, Kandarian was founder and managing partner of Orion Partners, LP, a private equity firm based in the Boston area. Earlier he was managing director of Lee Capital Holdings. Kandarian began his career as an investment banker with Houston-based Rotan Mosle, Inc.
Kandarian is a board member of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation and a member of the Economic Club of New York and the Financial Services Forum. He earned his B.A. from Clark University, J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell, 46
President, The Walmart Foundation
Professional Highlights:
- President, The Walmart Foundation (Jan. 2012 – Present)
- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a private philanthropic foundation
- President, Global Development Program (Apr. 2006 – Dec. 2011)
- Chief Operating Officer (2002 – Apr. 2006)
- Executive Vice President (2001 – 2002)
- Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, D.C. (1998 – 2001)
- Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton (1997 – 1998)
- Chief of Staff to Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin (1995 – 1997)
- Staff Director, National Economic Council (1993 – 1995)
- Manager of President Clinton’s economic transition team (1992-1993)
- Staff, Clinton/Gore Campaign (1992)
- Associate, McKinsey and Company (1990 – 1992)
Other Professional and Leadership Experience:
- Member of:
- Board of Directors, Council on Foreign Relations
- Aspen Strategy Group
- Trilateral Commission
- Advisory Group, Nike Foundation
- Advisory Board, Next Generation Initiative
- Advisory Board, Peter G. Peterson Foundation
- Professional Advisory Board, ALS Association Evergreen Chapter
Education:
- B.A., cum laude, Harvard University
- B.A., Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar)
Cheryl W. Grisé, 59
Retired Executive Vice President,
Northeast Utilities
Professional Highlights:
- Northeast Utilities, a public utility holding company (1980 – 2007)
- Executive Vice President (Dec. 2005 – Jul. 2007)
- Chief Executive Officer of principal operating subsidiaries (Sep. 2002 – Jan. 2007)
- President, Utility Group, Northeast Utilities Service Company (May 2001 – Jan. 2007)
- President, Utility Group (May 2001 – Dec. 2005)
- Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel (1998 – 2001)
Other Professional and Leadership Experience:
- Member, Board of Trustees, Kingswood-Oxford School
- Senior Fellow, American Leadership Forum
- Other Public Company Directorships:
- Pall Corporation; PulteGroup, Inc.
- Prior Public Company Directorships (past 5 years):
Dana Corp.
Education:
- B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- J.D., Thomas Jefferson School of Law
- Executive Management Program, Yale University School of Organization and Management
R. Glenn Hubbard, Ph.D., 53
Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of
Economics and Finance, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
Professional Highlights:
- Columbia University
- Dean, Graduate School of Business (2004 – Present)
- Russell L. Carson Professor of Economics and Finance, Graduate School of Business (1994 – Present)
- Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (1997 – Present)
- Co-Chair, Committee on Capital Markets Regulation (2006 – Present)
- Chairman, President’s Council of Economic Advisers (2001 – 2003)
- Chairman of the Economic Policy Committee, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (2001 – 2003)
- Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury (1991 – 1993)
Other Professional and Leadership Experience:
- Dr. Hubbard is a member of numerous professional and civic organizations, including:
- Panel of Economic Advisors, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Advisory Board of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
- Other Public Company Directorships: Automatic Data Processing, Inc.; BlackRock Closed-End Funds; KKR Financial Holdings LLC
- Prior Public Company Directorships (past 5 years): Capmark Financial Corporation; Information Services Group, Inc.; Duke Realty Corporation; Dex Media, Inc.; R.H. Donnelley Corporation
Education:
- B.A. and B.S., University of Central Florida
- Ph.D. and M.A., Harvard University
Gen. John M. Keane (Ret.), 69
Retired General, United States Army;
Senior Partner, SCP Partners; President GSI, LLC
Professional Highlights:
- Senior Partner, SCP Partners, a venture capital firm (Mar. 2009 – Present)
- President, GSI, LLC, a consulting firm (Feb. 2004 – Present)
- Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director, Keane Advisors, LLC, a private equity and consulting firm (2004 – 2009)
- Vice Chief of Staff and Chief Operating Officer, United States Army (1999 – Oct. 2003)
- Thirty-seven year service in the United States Army
Other Professional and Leadership Experience:
- Military Contributor and Analyst, Fox News
- Member, U.S. Department of Defense Policy Board
- Member, Council on Foreign Relations
- Chairman, Senior Executive Committee, Army Aviation Association of America
- Chairman, Board of Directors, Institute for the Study of War
- Member of:
- Defense Policy Board, U.S. Department of Defense
- Advisory Council, American Corporate Partners
- Advisory Board, Knollwood Foundation
- Board of Trustees, George C. Marshall Foundation
- Board of Trustees, Fordham University
- Board of Directors, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
- Board, Welcome Back Veterans Foundation
- Other Public Company Directorships: General Dynamics Corporation
- Prior Public Company Directorships (past 5 years): Cyalume Technologies Holdings, Inc.; M & F Worldwide Corp.
Education:
- B.S., Fordham University
- M.A., Western Kentucky University
- Honorary Degrees: Fordham University; Eastern Kentucky University
Alfred F. Kelly, Jr., 53
Chief Executive Officer,
NY/NJ 2014 Super Bowl Host Committee
Professional Highlights:
- Chief Executive Officer, NY/NJ 2014 Super Bowl Host Committee
- American Express Company
- President (Jul. 2007 – Apr. 2010), responsible for global consumer businesses, including consumer and small business cards, customer service, global banking, prepaid products, consumer travel, and risk and information management
- Group President (2005 – 2007), responsible for several key businesses, including U.S. consumer and small business cards, U.S. customer service, and risk management
- Head of Information Systems, White House (1985 – 1987), with oversight of the information processing functions for several government agencies that comprise the Executive Office of the President
Other Professional and Leadership Experience:
- Chairman, Board of Directors, School of the Holy Child
- Vice Chairman, Wall Street Charity Golf Classic (benefits the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation)
- Member, Boards of Trustees, of:
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital
- St. Joseph’s Seminary and College
- New York Catholic Foundation
- Other Public Company Directorships: Affinion Group, Inc.
- Prior Public Company Directorships (past 5 years): Hershey Company
Education:
- B.A. and M.B.A., Iona College
James M. Kilts, 64
Partner, Centerview Partners Management, LLC
Professional Highlights:
- Partner, Centerview Partners Management, LLC, a private equity and financial advisory firm (Oct. 2006 – Present)
- Vice Chairman, Board of Directors, The Procter & Gamble Company (Oct. 2005 – Oct. 2006)
- The Gillette Company
- Chairman of the Board (Jan. 2001 – Oct. 2005)
- Chief Executive Officer (Feb. 2001 – Oct. 2005)
- President (Nov. 2003 – Oct. 2005)
- President and Chief Executive Officer, Nabisco Group Holdings Corp.; President and Chief Executive Officer, Nabisco Holdings Corp. and Nabisco Inc. (Jan. 1998 – Dec. 2000)
- Executive Vice President, Worldwide Food, Philip Morris (1994 – 1997)
- Various positions, Kraft (through 1994), including:
- President, Kraft USA and Oscar Mayer
- Senior Vice President, Strategy and Development
- President, Kraft Limited in Canada
- Senior Vice President, Kraft International
Other Professional and Leadership Experience:
- Member of:
- Board of Overseers, Weill Cornell Medical College
- Board of Trustees, Knox College
- Board of Trustees, University of Chicago
- Founder and Member, Steering Committee, Kilts Center for Marketing, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- Other Public Company Directorships: Pfizer, Inc.; MeadWestvaco Corporation; Nielsen Holdings N.V.
- Prior Public Company Directorships (past 5 years):
The New York Times Company
Education:
- B.A., Knox College
- M.B.A., University of Chicago
Catherine R. Kinney, 60
Retired President and Co-Chief Operating Officer,
New York Stock Exchange, Inc.
Professional Highlights:
- Retired from NYSE Euronext in March 2009, after serving in Paris, France, with responsibility for overseeing the global listing program, marketing and branding (Jul. 2007 – Mar. 2009)
- President and Co-Chief Operating Officer, New York Stock Exchange, Inc. (2002 – 2008)
- Ms. Kinney joined the New York Stock Exchange in 1974 and held management positions in several divisions, with responsibility for all client relationships (1996 – 2007), trading floor operations and technology (1987 – 1996), and regulation (2002 – 2004)
Other Professional and Leadership Experience:
- Member of:
- Board of Trustees, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York
- Board of Directors, New York City Ballet
- Board of Directors, Sharegift USA
- Economic Club of New York
- Other Public Company Directorships: NetSuite, Inc.; MSCI Inc.
- Prior Public Company Directorships (past 5 years): The Depository Trust Company
Education:
- B.A., magna cum laude, Iona College
- Advanced Management Program, Harvard Graduate School of Business
- Honorary Degrees: Georgetown University; Fordham University; Rosemont College
Hugh B. Price, 70
John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs Visiting
Professor of Public and International Affairs,
Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
Professional Highlights:
- John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University (Aug. 2008 – Present)
- Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, an independent research and policy center (Feb. 2006 – Present)
- Senior Advisor, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP, a law firm (Sep. 2003 – Sep. 2005)
- President and Chief Executive Officer, National Urban League, Inc. (1994 – April 2003)
Other Professional and Leadership Experience:
- Trustee of:
- Jacob Burns Film Center
- Georgetown University
- Other Public Company Directorships:
Verizon Communications Inc.
Education:
- B.A., Amherst College
- LL.B., Yale Law School
David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., 71
Director, Satcher Health Leadership Institute,
Director, Center of Excellence on Health Disparities, Morehouse School of Medicine
Professional Highlights:
- Morehouse School of Medicine
- Director, Satcher Health Leadership Institute (Jun. 2006 – Present)
- Director, Center of Excellence on Health Disparities (Jun. 2006 – Present)
- Poussaint-Satcher-Cosby Chair in Mental Health (Jun. 2006 – Present)
- President (Dec. 2004 – Jul. 2006)
- Director, National Center for Primary Care (Sep. 2002 – Dec. 2004)
- 16th Surgeon General of the United States (Feb. 1998 – Feb. 2002)
- Senior Visiting Fellow, Kaiser Family Foundation (Feb. 2001 – Sep. 2002)
- U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health (Feb.1998 – Jan. 2001)
- Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Administrator, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (1993 – 1998)
Other Professional and Leadership Experience:
- Dr. Satcher is a member of numerous professional and civic organizations, including:
- Kaiser Family Foundation
- Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta
- United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta
- Other Public Company Directorships:
Johnson & Johnson
Education:
- B.S., Morehouse College
- M.D. and Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University
Kenton J. Sicchitano, 67
Retired Global Managing Director,
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Professional Highlights:
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (1970 – 2001). Mr. Sicchitano joined Price Waterhouse LLP, a predecessor firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, in 1970, becoming a Partner in 1979. He held a variety of global leadership positions, including Global Managing Partner of Audit and Business Advisory Services and Global Managing Partner responsible for Audit and Business Advisory, Tax and Legal, and Financial Advisory Services.
Other Professional and Leadership Experience:
- Other Public Company Directorships:
PerkinElmer, Inc.; Analog Devices, Inc.
Education:
- B.A., Harvard College
- M.B.A., Harvard Business School
Lulu C. Wang, 67
Founder and Chief Executive Officer,
Tupelo Capital Management LLC
Professional Highlights:
- Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Tupelo Capital Management LLC, an investment management firm (1997 – Present)
- Director and Executive Vice President, Jennison Associates Capital Corporation (1988 – 1997)
- Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Equitable Capital Management (1978-1988)
Other Professional and Leadership Experience:
- Trustee, Asia Society
- Trustee Emerita, Wellesley College
- Consulting Director, New York Community Trust
- Member of:
- Board of Overseers, Columbia Business School
- Board of Trustees, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Board of Trustees, Rockefeller University
- Board of Directors, Committee of 100
Education:
- B.A., Wellesley College
- M.B.A., Columbia Business School
- Chartered Financial Analyst
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