Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On July 30, 2025, MetLife, Inc. (the “Company”) announced the appointment of Adrienne O’Neill as Executive Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, effective September 2, 2025. A copy of the Company’s news release announcing Ms. O’Neill’s appointment is included in this report as Exhibit 99.1.
Ms. O’Neill, age 44, has served as Chief Financial Officer, Asia Segment, of Manulife Financial Corporation (“Manulife”), a global life insurance company and international financial services provider, since February 2025. Previously, she served as Manulife’s Global Controller and Group Chief Accounting Officer from July 2021 to February 2025, and as its Global Head of Investor Relations from September 2018 to June 2021. Since joining Manulife in 2007, Ms. O’Neill has also held various positions in its Global Wealth and Asset Management segment, General Account Investments, and its Canadian segment.
Ms. O’Neill’s annual base salary will be $525,000 and, for each full year of employment, she will be considered for a discretionary incentive award (with any awards for 2025 to be pro-rated based on the number of months she works for the Company) in accordance with the incentive compensation plans as described in the Company’s definitive proxy statement for the 2025 annual meeting of shareholders, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on April 29, 2025. Ms. O’Neill will also be eligible to receive certain sign-on cash payments, as well as certain sign-on stock-based long-term incentive awards with an aggregate grant date value of $1,950,000, which are intended to replace compensation forfeited from her current employer and assist with her transition.
There is no arrangement or understanding between Ms. O’Neill and any other person pursuant to which Ms. O’Neill was selected for this role. Ms. O’Neill has no family relationships with any of the Company’s current directors or executive officers.
The Company’s current interim Chief Accounting Officer, Toby Srihiran Brown, will vacate that role when Ms. O’Neill’s employment begins and will continue his role as Executive Vice President and Global Head of Reinsurance of the Company.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
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News release of MetLife, Inc. dated July 30, 2025, announcing that its Board of Directors appointed Adrienne O’Neill Executive Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer. |
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Pursuant to Rule 406 of Regulation S-T, the cover page is formatted in Inline XBRL (Inline eXtensible Business Reporting Language) |
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Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document and included in Exhibit 101) |