William E. Kennard, 68

Ambassador Kennard’s career has provided him with extensive legal, regulatory, public policy, risk management, technological, global investment, asset management, and private equity expertise. As U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Ambassador Kennard worked to promote transatlantic trade and investment and reduce regulatory barriers to commerce. In his years with the FCC, Ambassador Kennard promoted, advanced, and increased access to technology, resulting in large scale investment in new technologies ensuring that the United States remained competitive in an increasingly digital economy. His experiences with regulated industries, global investments, asset management, and technology guide the Company’s strategic priorities to accelerate the growth of its asset management business while leveraging technology for growth, innovation, and efficiencies. Ambassador Kennard enhances the Board’s ability to effectively perform its strategy and business, risk, corporate governance, and sustainability oversight responsibilities.

MetLife Board Committees:

• Compensation
  
• Executive
• Finance and Risk (Chair)
• Investment

Professional Highlights:

• Velocitas Partners LLC, an asset management firm
  • Co-Founder and Non-Executive Chairman (2013 - Present)
• Astra Capital Management, a private equity firm
  • Co-Founder (2016 - Present)
• Staple Street Capital, a private equity firm
  • Member of Operating Executive Board (2013 - Present)
• U.S. Mission to the European Union
  • Ambassador (2009 - 2013)
• The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm
  • Managing Director (2001 - 2009)
• U. S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
  • Chairman (1997 - 2001)
  • General Counsel (1993 - 1997)
• Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand (now DLA Piper), a law firm
  • Partner (1984 - 1993)

Other U.S. Listed Public Company Directorships:

• Ford Motor Company (2015 - Present)
• AT&T Inc. (2014 - Present)
• Prior U.S. Listed Public Company Directorships (past five years): Duke Energy Corporation (2014 - 2021)

Education:

• B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford University
• J.D., Yale Law School