Ms. Smith most recently led MetLife’s Group Benefits Regional Business and served on the MetLife Finance leadership team. Her other senior roles across businesses and functions during more than 30 years at MetLife include strategy, finance, sales, service, delivery, underwriting, technology and large-scale business transformation.

Ms. Smith has been board member of T. Rowe Price Group since 2023, where she serves on the Audit, and Executive Compensation and Management Development committees.

Ms. Smith earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Aurora University and a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in information technology from Benedictine University in Illinois. She is a certified management accountant and a graduate of the Smith College Executive Management program.

Previously, Mr. Ivanov was Assistant Vice President of Strategic Development for MetLife, focused on merger-and-acquisition activity. Other leadership roles at MetLife include finance transformation, ratings and capital liquidity, international capital management and strategy, financial planning and analysis for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Mr. Ivanov serves on the board of Brand IQ Group Inc. and was a Vice President at Oxford Alumni Ventures. Early in his career he worked for Ernst & Young and AIG.

Mr. Ivanov holds an Executive MBA degree from the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford (UK) and a business degree from Drexel University (U.S.) and is a certified public accountant (U.S.).

Previously, Mr. Thomas was Senior Vice-President and Chief Actuary, Asia, with MetLife. Other leadership roles during his 17-year career at MetLife include Vice-President and Treasurer, Asia, and Vice-President and Chief Risk Officer, MetLife Japan.

He has also been a non-executive Board member of MetLife Australia, PNB MetLife and MetLife Reinsurance of Bermuda. Earlier in his career, Mr. Thomas led Japan and Korea pricing for Swiss Re, and was a consultant with Towers Perrin.

Mr. Thomas holds a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in mathematics from Bristol University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (UK) and a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA).

Mr. Sakoulas has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry in a variety of leadership roles. Most recently he was the Senior Vice President – Strategic Projects at MetLife, focusing on key reinsurance initiatives such as building the actuarial framework and the financial, planning, and analysis processes for Chariot Re. He also served as the CFO for MetLife’s Retirement & Income Solutions group, leading financial reporting, analysis, and expense control initiatives.

Before MetLife, he was the CFO of AIG’s Retirement business where he led the hedging, actuarial and finance teams. He also held leadership roles at Old Mutual Bermuda and AXA Re Life focused on annuities and reinsurance.

Mr. Sakoulas holds a master’s degree in mathematics from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Queens College in the U.S. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

Ms. Smith most recently led MetLife’s Group Benefits Regional Business and served on the MetLife Finance leadership team. Her other senior roles across businesses and functions during more than 30 years at MetLife include strategy, finance, sales, service, delivery, underwriting, technology and large-scale business transformation.

Ms. Smith has been board member of T. Rowe Price Group since 2023, where she serves on the Audit, and Executive Compensation and Management Development committees.

Ms. Smith earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Aurora University and a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in information technology from Benedictine University in Illinois. She is a certified management accountant and a graduate of the Smith College Executive Management program.

Ms. Hurtsellers is the former CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Voya Investment Management, where she played a pivotal role in transforming the firm into a capital-light, growth-oriented business with $320 billion in assets under management. Named one of Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in Finance, Ms. Hurtsellers is widely respected for her strategic investment acumen, innovative thinking, and values-driven leadership.

As CEO, she led the firm to outperform industry peers and contributed to enterprise-wide strategy as a member of Voya’s Financial Executive Team. Earlier, as CIO of Fixed Income, she strengthened investment processes to deliver top-decile performance and built a top-five outsourced insurance asset management platform in the U.S.

Prior to Voya, Ms. Hurtsellers held investment leadership roles at Freddie Mac, where she oversaw a $650 billion portfolio, as well as at Alliance Capital Management and Banc One Corporation. She serves on the Board of Counselors of The Carter Center and the Board of UNICEF Southeast and is a former member of the U.S. Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee. Ms. Hurtsellers holds a BA in finance from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Mr. Isherwood served as CEO of Reinsurance for the Americas and Regional President at Swiss Re and also served as a member of the Group Executive Committee from 2020-2024.

Previously, he was head of Global Reinsurance at Swiss Re after leading the company’s Claims, Accounting & Liability Management division from 2007 to 2013. He joined Swiss Re as Head of Product Integration following Swiss Re’s acquisition of GE Insurance Solutions in 2006. Previously he was CEO of GE Frankona AG and Chairman of the Board of ERC Copenhagen, while also having global responsibility as President of Product Strategy for GE Insurance Solutions.

Mr. Isherwood started his career in 1991 with Ernst & Young and moved to GE Capital as an audit and consulting leader in 1994. In 2000, he joined GE Insurance Solutions to build the Risk Management team and thereafter led the Global Property division. He holds a master’s degree in economics from Cambridge University in the UK.

Mr. Patterson is the former Chairman of the KPMG group of entities in Bermuda. He spent the majority of his career with KPMG, having joined the firm in 1989. He served as a client facing lead audit partner from 1997 until his retirement in 2020. He was the Risk Management Partner for KPMG in Bermuda for over 20 years and the Risk Management Partner for the KPMG Islands Group for 15 years. Neil became the Bermuda firm’s Office Managing Partner in 2008 and served for nine years before taking on the role of Chairman.

In 2019, Mr. Patterson co-founded Ignite Bermuda, the island’s first privately funded business incubator and accelerator. Ignite’s purpose is to assist Bermudian entrepreneurs, diversify economic ownership and create jobs through education, mentoring and providing access to capital. To date over 500 Bermudian entrepreneurs and small businesses have benefited from the program.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and accounting from Queen’s University Belfast, is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland and a member of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada.

Mr. Brown is the Global Head of Reinsurance, Interim Chief Accounting Officer and a member of MetLife’s Strategic Advisory Group. In this role, he is responsible for creating and overseeing MetLife’s global reinsurance strategy, third-party reinsurance relationships, and management of the entire reinsurance lifecycle from deal initiation and creation through to execution, monitoring and reporting. He also serves as Chairman and CEO of MetLife’s reinsurance captives. 

Mr. Brown joined MetLife in 2010 when MetLife acquired ALICO from AIG and has held senior leadership roles including, Global Chief Audit Executive for MetLife Inc., Chief Operating Officer and board member for MetLife Japan, Regional Chief Financial Officer for MetLife Asia, and Regional CFO for MetLife Europe. 

Mr. Brown is a Fellow of both the UK Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Association of International Accountants. He also holds the Chartered Internal Auditor designation. He earned an MBA from the Alliance Manchester Business School in the UK and has completed the Financial Times non-executive director diploma in corporate governance as well as executive programs at NYU Stern, Harvard and ICLIF.

Mr. Hoag is the Chief Actuary of Chubb Life International. He serves on the Chubb Life Executive Committee and leads the Reserve Review Committee for the life business. In his role as the Chief Actuary of Chubb Life, Mr. Hoag is responsible for the pricing, valuation and risk management of life insurance products globally. Mr. Hoag oversees the actuarial function for operations in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He is a member of the Global Life Risk Management Committee and a leader of the Global Life Asset and Liability Management Committee. He also manages the business operations of Chubb Tempest Life Re.

Prior to joining Chubb in 2015, Mr. Hoag held senior actuarial roles in AEGON, Swiss Re and VOYA. He began his career in the actuarial student development program at CIGNA. He is a Fellow in the Society of Actuaries and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries. He graduated from Dartmouth College and earned an MS from Stanford.

Mr. Tompkins is the Chief Operating Officer of General Atlantic. He serves on the firm’s Executive Committee, as well as the Credit Investment Committee. Before assuming the COO role, Mr. Tompkins spent more than a decade leading General Atlantic’s Capital Partnering efforts. Prior to that, he was a member of the firm’s Healthcare and Financial Services sector teams.

Before joining General Atlantic in 2008, Mr. Tompkins worked in the Merchant Banking division at Goldman Sachs, where he focused on principal investments across a broad range of sectors, and as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Mr. Tompkins is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, a member of the Leadership Council at Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership, and he was previously a David Rockefeller Fellow through the New York City Partnership. Mr. Tompkins earned an MBA with high honors from Harvard Business School and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He graduated magna cum laude with an AB in Politics from
Princeton University.