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Michel Khalaf President and CEO
Michel A. Khalaf is President and Chief Executive Officer of MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET), one of the world's leading financial services companies. MetLife provides insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to customers in more than 40 markets around the world and holds leading positions in the United States, Japan, Latin America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. In 2021, MetLife had $70 billion in adjusted revenue and ranks 50th on the FORTUNE 500®. Khalaf became president and CEO on May 1, 2019.
Khalaf joined MetLife in 2010 as chief executive officer of its Middle East, Africa and South Asia region through the company's acquisition of AIG's Alico. In 2011, Khalaf joined MetLife's Executive Group when he was named president of its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region with responsibility for individual and group insurance businesses sold through agent, broker, bank and direct channels in more than 25 markets. In 2017, he added responsibility for the company's U.S. businesses — Group Benefits, Retirement & Income Solutions and Property & Casualty — and for Global Employee Benefits, a horizontal business unit dedicated to growing employee benefits in approximately 40 markets.
In his 21 years at Alico, Khalaf held a number of leadership roles in various markets around the world, including the Caribbean, France and Italy. In 1996, he was named the first general manager of Alico's operation in Egypt. In 2001, he assumed the position of regional senior vice president in charge of Alico's Life, Pension and Mutual Fund operation in Poland, Romania and the Baltics. Later, he served as deputy president and chief operating officer of Philamlife, AIG's operating company in the Philippines. Khalaf began his career as an investment officer at Alico headquarters in Wilmington, Del.
Khalaf is a member of the U.S.-China Business Council Board of Directors, the Geneva Association Board of Directors, and the Partnership for New York City Board of Directors.
Khalaf is a graduate of Syracuse University with a B.S. in engineering and M.B.A. in finance.
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Suja Chandrasekaran Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Digital and Information Officer
Suja Chandrasekaran served as Senior EVP, Chief Information and Digital Officer at CommonSpirit Health.
She is an industry-recognized Digital Transformation leader. Previously, she has been chief of digital and tech at large companies including Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Walmart, Inc., Nestle S.A. and The Timberland Company.
Suja serves as a non-executive director and also as a board member on the boards of public companies such as American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO), digital supply chain tech platform company Blume Global Technologies, and Agendia, the only molecular diagnostics company focused on breast cancer research, diagnosis and treatment.
She is an industry expert in digital marketing, customer experience, eCommerce, omnichannel, artificial intelligence, and scaled enterprise digital transformations. Suja brings significant business
About this event
This talk with Michel Khalaf, CEO of MetLife, is a part of a monthly series of discussions with prominent CEOs. This series is meant to inspire others to see how the path to the CEO can be varied, how CEO’s come from a wide range of backgrounds and life experiences, and that CEOs carry a range of leadership styles and personalities. There will be a balance of CEOs highlighted from a variety of backgrounds, both in terms of career and societal demographics.
The secondary purpose of this series is to reinforce the trust society is putting in business leaders over all others realms of leadership. Beyond discussing their stories to the top, we’ll touch on how these CEOs lead, and what they are thinking about at a broad societal level.
Fri, Apr 21 @ 7:30am PT (1 hr)
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