GENWORTH FINANCIAL - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President
- Member of the Executive Team
- Executive Vice President, CareScout Insurance
Andrea Lynn White has been our Executive Vice President-CareScout Insurance since October 1, 2023. She previously served as Executive Vice President-Government Relations from May 2022 to September 2023, while maintaining her title of Chief of Staff, a role to which she was appointed in December 2017. Ms. White served as our Senior Vice President-Government Relations from May 2021 to May 2022. In addition, Ms. White held positions in the Company's Government Relations department from July 2015 to December 2017 and served as the Company's Corporate Ombudsperson, with responsibility of implementing the Company's code of ethics programs, from May 2005 to July 2015. From February 2001 to May 2005, Ms. White served in various capacities within the Company and/or its predecessor, including roles in the Human Resources department. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. White held various roles at Aetna Life Insurance and was an Associate with the law firm of LeClair Ryan. Ms. White received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, summa cum laude, in Finance from Howard University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia.
Blake Hodges - Chief Risk Officer, EVP
Job Titles:
- Chief Risk Officer
- Executive Vice President
- Member of the Executive Team
Mark Blakeley (Blake) Hodges has been our Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer since May 2022. Prior to that he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer since March 2022 and as Interim Chief Risk Officer from November 2021 to March 2022. Mr. Hodges previously served as Chief Operational Risk Officer for Genworth and its U.S. Life Insurance segment from July 2015 until November 2021. From July 2002 through July 2015, Mr. Hodges served in various capacities with the Company and/or its predecessor including roles with responsibilities for oversight of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) programs, financial reporting systems, operational and technology platforms, and testing and quality assurance programs. Mr. Hodges received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Decision Support Systems from Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech) and graduated from the Tuck Global Executive Leadership Program through Dartmouth in 2020.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Team
- Member of the Risk Committee
- Audit
Ms. Sarsynski was Chairwoman, Chief Executive Officer and President of MassMutual International from 2006 until her retirement in 2017. She served as President of MassMutual Retirement Services from 2008 to 2016, as Executive Vice President of MassMutual from 2006 to 2017, as a member of MassMutual's Office of the Chief Executive Officer from 2008 to 2017, and as Chief Administrative Officer of Mass Mutual from 2005 to 2008. In 2005, she served as Managing Director at Babson Capital Management LLC, a MassMutual subsidiary. Prior to joining Babson Capital, she served two elected terms as First Selectman for the town of Suffield, Connecticut. In 1998, she founded Sun Consulting Group LLC, offering real estate advisory and consulting services. Ms. Sarsynski previously spent 17 years at Aetna where she held multiple senior management positions overseeing segments of the company's Investments Division and leading the Corporate Finance Department. She currently serves on the board of directors of TI Fluid Systems PLC, Horizon Technology Finance Corporation and Horace Mann Educators Corporation. Ms. Sarsynski previously served on the Board of Directors of AXA S.A. from 2018 to 2021. Ms. Sarsynski received a B.A. from Smith College and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Team
- Member of the Risk Committee
- Nominating and Corporate Governance
Sen. Conrad served as a U.S. Senator representing the State of North Dakota from January 1987 to January 2013. He served as Chairman or Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee for 12 years. Prior to serving in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Conrad served as the Tax Commissioner for the State of North Dakota from 1981 to 1986 and as Assistant to the Tax Commissioner from 1974 to 1980. Sen. Conrad currently serves as a Strategic Advisor to Molina Healthcare, as co-chair of the Economic Advisory Committee for American Edge, as a member of the board of directors of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, as a Senior Fellow for The Bipartisan Policy Center and as an advisor to the CEO of the Baltimore Orioles. Sen. Conrad received an A.B. in Political Science from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from George Washington University.
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President
- General Counsel
- Member of the Executive Team
Gregory S. Karawan has been our Executive Vice President and General Counsel since January 2022. Prior to that, he served as a Vice President of the Company since June 2008 and as General Counsel of our U.S. Life Insurance segment since January 2007. Mr. Karawan joined the Company in 2000 as global chief litigation counsel, a position he held intermittently and then continuously after January 2008. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Karawan worked at the law firm of Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal. Mr. Karawan received a B.A. in economics from State University of New York Binghamton and a J.D. from Fordham Law School.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Team
- Member of the Risk Committee
- Executive Vice President of Business Development and External Affairs of BeeXact
Mr. Mills is currently Executive Vice President of Business Development and External Affairs of beeXact, a geospatial data management/EngineeringTech company that designs fiber optic networks and provides municipal digital twin services. He also currently serves as a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company, where he advises boards and executives in the areas of regulatory and reputational risk, executive positioning, strategy, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) matters, financial communications, crisis management, mergers and acquisitions and public policy. Mr. Mills had a 12-year career at Deloitte LLP, where he served as Managing Director and Global Insurance Regulatory Leader from 2007 to May 2019. During his tenure at Deloitte, Mr. Mills served Deloitte's largest U.S. and global insurance clients. Prior to his management consulting career, Mr. Mills was the Superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department from 2005 to 2006. Mr. Mills served three terms in the New York State Assembly from 1999 to 2004, where he was Deputy Minority Leader and a member of the National Council of Insurance Legislators. Mr. Mills has served as a director of The Doctors Company Group since May 2019, the largest physician-owned medical liability insurer in the U.S. (serving as a member of the audit committee and technology and cybersecurity committees). Mr. Mills previously served on the board of directors of Ensight, a SaaS insurance sales platform, from June 2019 to January 2022. Mr. Mills currently serves as President and a Director of the Insurance Federation of New York and as a Trustee of The Institutes Griffith Insurance Education Foundation. Mr. Mills received a B.A. in political science from Marist College and an M.A. in public administration from The American University. Mr. Mills is a NACD Governance Fellow.
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President
- Member of the Executive Team
- Executive Vice President, U.S. Life Insurance
Jamala Arland has been our Executive Vice President-U.S. Life Insurance since January 2024. Prior to that, she served as Senior Vice President-Long-Term Care Insurance In-Force since May 2022 with oversight responsibilities of the Company's in-force long-term care insurance products. From January 2019 through May 2022, she served as a Vice President in Long-Term Care In-Force leading the execution of the Company's multi-year rate action plan. Ms. Arland joined the Company in May 2005 and has held various actuarial roles at the Company in life valuation and annuity product development. She is the industry representative to the California Long-Term Care Taskforce, as appointed by the state Senate Rules Committee. Ms. Arland is a Fellow in the Society of Actuaries, a member of the American Academy of Actuaries (AAA), previously serving as chair of the AAA LTC Reform Subcommittee, and is a charterholder in the CFA Institute. Ms. Arland received a Bachelor of Mathematics (Actuarial Science and Statistics) degree from the University of Waterloo.
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Executive Vice President
- Member of the Executive Team
Jerome Upton has been our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer ("CFO") since March 1, 2023 and is designated as the Company's Principal Financial Officer. Prior to that, he served as our Senior Vice President, Deputy CFO and Controller from April 2022 to March 2023. From June 2010 to April 2022, Mr. Upton served as Vice President of the Company (during which time he also served as Deputy CFO from August 2020 to April 2022, as interim CFO of the Company's U.S. Life Insurance business from August 2019 to August 2020, as the Chief Financial and Operations Officer of the Company's Global Mortgage Insurance businesses from May 2012 to August 2019, and Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the International mortgage insurance businesses of the Company from June 2010 to May 2012). Prior to joining the Company's predecessor in 1998, Mr. Upton was with KPMG Peat Marwick, where he served in accounting positions of increasing authority before attaining the position of Senior Manager - Insurance. Prior thereto, Mr. Upton was the Controller and Director of Financial Reporting for Century American Insurance Company and obtained the status of Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Upton received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Member of Management Development and Compensation Committee
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Team
- Management Development and Compensation
- Managing Director of Foros Advisors LLC
Ms. Goodman is currently Managing Director of Foros Advisors LLC, a strategic financial and mergers and acquisitions advisory firm, a position she has held since November 2013. Ms. Goodman advises companies and special committees with regard to mergers and acquisitions. Previously, she served as a Managing Director and Head, Special Committee and Fiduciary Practice-U.S. at Rothschild from 2010 to October 2013. From 1998 to 2010, Ms. Goodman was with Lazard in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Strategic Advisory Group, most recently as Managing Director. Ms. Goodman has served as a director of Cboe Global Markets, a leading provider of trading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world, since 2012 (serving as finance and strategy chair and as a member of the executive and nominating and governance committees). She has also served as a director of Cover Genius, a private global insurance technology company, since February 2022. Ms. Goodman graduated magna cum laude from Rice University with a B.A. degree. She received her J.D. degree, with honors, from the University of Chicago Law School.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Team
- Senior Vice President, CareScout
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*Andrea Lynn White's photo courtesy of the Richmond Times Dispatch
Job Titles:
- Member of Management Development and Compensation Committee
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Team
- Audit
Job Titles:
- Chief Investment Officer
- Executive Vice President
- Member of the Executive Team
Kelly Saltzgaber has been our Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer since March 1, 2023. She previously served as the Head of the Portfolio Management team from January 2018 to March 2023, having been Interim Head since mid-2017 after moving to Portfolio Management in November 2016, and as a Senior Credit Trader from 2013 to 2016. Prior to joining the Company in 2013, Ms. Saltzgaber had 27 years of combined experience in Institutional Credit Sales at Goldman Sachs, Barclays and Cambridge International and as an analyst in the Asset-Backed Securities group at Merrill Lynch. Ms. Saltzgaber received a B.A. in Economics Modified with Mathematics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. in Finance from New York University's Stern School of Business.
Lt. Gen. Dyson was the first female finance officer to achieve three-star general officer rank in August 2014. She retired as Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and Comptroller in August 2017. During her career she led efforts building, executing and reporting on the Army's multi-appropriation budget; commanded units and led troops in war operations; and led strategic transformation initiatives. Lt. Gen. Dyson is a strategic leader with board experience in corporate governance, finance and audit committees, risk oversight and management development and compensation. She currently serves on the boards of USAA Federal Savings Bank since October 2017 (serving as nominations and governance committee chair); CALIBRE Systems, Inc. since October 2018 (serving as audit committee chair); and Army Emergency Relief Organization since 2020. Lt. Gen. Dyson received a B.S. in Business Management from Missouri State University, an M.B.A. from Austin Peay State University and an M.S. in National Resource Strategy from the Eisenhower School of National Security and Resources Strategy. Lt. Gen. Dyson is National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Directorship Certified.
Job Titles:
- Member of Management Development and Compensation Committee
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Team
- Audit
- Non - Executive Chair of the Board & Former Partner at the Goldman Sachs Group
Ms. Higgins retired in 2010 from a nearly 20-year career at The Goldman Sachs Group Inc., where she served as a Managing Director from 2001 and a Partner from 2002. During her tenure at Goldman Sachs, Ms. Higgins served as Head of the Americas for Private Debt and Co-Chairperson of the Investment Advisory Committee for the GS Mezzanine Partners funds. She also served as a member of the Investment Committee for the Principal Investment Area, which oversaw and approved global private equity and private debt investments. Goldman's Principal Investment Area was one of the largest alternative asset managers in the world. Ms. Higgins has served as a director of Viatris Inc. since November 2020 (serving as chair of the board, executive committee chair and finance committee chair). She previously served on the boards of Mylan N.V. from February 2013 to November 2020 and NextGen Acquisition Corp. II from March 2021 to December 2021. Ms. Higgins has also served as Non- Executive Chair of the board of Antares Midco, Inc. since January 2016 and is a member of the Women's Leadership Board of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Ms. Higgins received a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from Colgate University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Job Titles:
- Chief Human Resources Officer
- Executive Vice President
- Member of the Executive Team
Melissa Hagerman has been our Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer since January 2022. Prior to that, she served as a Human Resources leader for the Company's corporate and investment functions since February 2018. Ms. Hagerman previously served as Director, Human Resources for the Company's U.S. Life Insurance segment and corporate finance function from June 2014 to January 2018, as Director, Human Resources for the corporate finance and global risk functions from July 2011 to March 2013, and as a senior client manager from March 2010 to July 2011. Ms. Hagerman has also held human resources positions at Carmax from March 2013 to June 2014 and Circuit City from July 2007 to February 2009. Ms. Hagerman received a B.S. in Human Resources Management from the University of Richmond, and graduated from the Tuck Global Leadership Program through Dartmouth College in 2019.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Team
- Member of the Risk Committee
- Founder and CEO of ALEX.Fyi
- Nominating and Corporate Governance
Mr. Smith is the founder and CEO of ALEX.fyi, a retirement solutions company, and is a founding partner of ALEXIncome, a retirement consulting company. Before founding ALEX.fyi in 2016, Mr. Smith spent over two decades at Goldman Sachs, most recently as Managing Director, Equity Derivative Sales, Head of Insurance. Mr. Smith built out the Life Insurance business at Goldman Sachs from 2007 to 2016. Prior to his tenure at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Smith worked as an analyst at Credit Suisse from 1990 to 1993. Mr. Smith is active in philanthropic activities, including serving on the Board of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity. Mr. Smith received an A.B. degree in Romance Languages and Literature from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Job Titles:
- Member of Management Development and Compensation Committee
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Team
- Audit
Mr. Restrepo retired from State Auto Financial Corporation in 2015, having served as its Chairman from 2006 to December 2015 and as its President and Chief Executive Officer from 2006 to May 2015. Mr. Restrepo has over 40 years of insurance industry experience, having held executive roles at Main Street America Group, Hanover Insurance Group Inc. (formerly Allmerica Financial Corp), Travelers and Aetna. Mr. Restrepo has served as a director of RLI Corp., a property and casualty insurance company, since July 2016 (serving as chair of the nominating/governance committee and as a member of the finance and investment committee) and of Enact Holdings, a majority-owned subsidiary of Genworth Financial, since its IPO in September 2021 (serving as a member of the audit and nominating and corporate governance committees). Mr. Restrepo also currently serves on the board of directors of The Larry H. Miller Group of Companies. He also previously served as a director of Majesco, a provider of insurance software and consulting services, from August 2015 to September 2020. Mr. Restrepo received a B.A. in English from Yale University. Mr. Restrepo is NACD Directorship Certified and has obtained the Professional Director - Public Company credential from the American College of Corporate Directors.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Team
- President and Chief Executive Officer of Enact Holdings
- President and Chief Executive Officer, Enact
Rohit Gupta has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Enact Holdings, a majority-owned subsidiary of Genworth Financial, and as a Director of Enact Holdings since its IPO in September 2021. While Mr. Gupta is President and Chief Executive Officer of Enact Holdings, he is not an officer of Genworth Financial. Mr. Gupta has also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company's U.S. mortgage insurance business since May 2012. Mr. Gupta also served as the Company's Executive Vice President-Enact from May 2021 to September 2021, the Company's Executive Vice President-U.S. Mortgage Insurance from February 2021 to May 2021, and as a Vice President of the Company from April 2013 to February 2021. Prior to that he held positions of Chief Commercial Officer from September 2009 to May 2012 and Senior Vice President, Products, Intelligence and Strategy from October 2007 to September 2009 in the Company's U.S. mortgage insurance business. He also held various management positions with GE Mortgage Insurance beginning in 2003 and was a product manager for GE Capital. Mr. Gupta began his career with FedEx Corporation in Strategic Marketing, where he was responsible for competitive intelligence and market analysis supporting FedEx senior management. Mr. Gupta serves on the Mortgage Bankers Association board of directors and the Housing Policy Executive Council. He also served as Chairman and remains a board member of the U.S. Mortgage Insurers trade association. Mr. Gupta served on the board of Genworth MI Canada Inc. from June 2016 to December 2019. He also served on the board of Aqua Finance from 2021 to July 2022 and on the Mortgage Bankers Association Residential Board of Governors from 2017 through 2022. Mr. Gupta received an undergraduate degree in Computer Science & Technology from Indian Institute of Technology and received an M.B.A. in Finance from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Team
- Executive Vice President, CareScout Services
Job Titles:
- Head of Investor Relations
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Executive Team
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Team
- President
- President and Chief Executive Officer and a Director
Tom McInerney has been our President and Chief Executive Officer and a director since January 2013. Before joining our Company, Mr. McInerney had served as a Senior Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group from June 2011 to December 2012, providing consulting and advisory services to leading insurance and financial services companies in the United States and Canada. From October 2009 to December 2010, Mr. McInerney was a member of ING Groep's Management Board for Insurance, where he was the Chief Operating Officer of ING's insurance and investment management business worldwide. Prior to that, he served in a variety of senior roles with ING Groep NV after serving in many leadership positions with Aetna, where he began his career as an insurance underwriter in June 1978. Mr. McInerney has served as a director of Enact Holdings, a majority owned subsidiary of Genworth Financial, since its IPO in September 2021. He is also on the boards of United Way Worldwide, Virginia Learns, Global Research Institute at the College of William & Mary and Virginia Ready, where he serves as Chair of the Board. Mr. McInerney is a member of the American Council of Life Insurers and serves, and has served, on its CEO Steering Committees and Board. Mr. McInerney received a B.A. in Economics with Honors from Colgate University and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.