John C. R. Hele

Biography

 Mr. John C. R. Hele serves as the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Mr. Hele serves as the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President at New England Life Insurance Company. Mr. Hele has been the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President at MetLife, Inc. since September 4, 2012. Mr. Hele served as the Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President and Treasurer of Arch Capital Group Ltd. from April 1, 2009 to September 1, 2012 and also served as its Principal Accounting Officer until September 1, 2012. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of NN Group N.V. (also known as ING Verzekeringen N.V.) and served as its Member of Executive Board until March 2009. He served as the Chief Financial Officer and Member of Executive Board of ING Groep N.V. from April 23, 2007 to March 30, 2009 and also served as its Deputy Chief Financial Officer from May 1, 2006 to April 23, 2007. He served as the Chief Financial Officer and Member of the executive board at ING Bank N.V. until March 30, 2009. Mr. Hele joined ING in 2003 and served as the General Manager and Chief Insurance Risk Officer, responsible for global insurance risk management for ING Group from 2003 to 2006 and also served as its Group Actuary. His Professional career includes various actuarial, finance and business roles at Crown Life, Toronto, Canada from 1980 to 1987, at the Private Client Division, marketing and finance; Corporate Division, investment banker at Merrill Lynch, New York, US from 1988 to 1999 and as Insurance Technology Entrepreneur and Chief Executive Officer of Worldinsure, Bermuda from 1999 to 2003. He served as an Executive Director of Alternative Re Holdings Ltd. He served as a Director of Arch Risk Transfer Services, Ltd. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, Member of the American Academy of Actuaries and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries. Mr. Hele graduated from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1980 with a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics.

Research Interest

 business and management