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• Develop and manage a portfolio of major, complex contracts with hardware, software, consulting, and telecom vendors. • Sponsor and lead change initiatives to reduce risk and/or generate negotiating leverage. • Led a global project to isolate software deployments as a means of managing license consumption. • Headed the decision to purchase, pilot, and implement an alternative to PDF editor.• Review contracts, develop financial models, author and present business cases, educate CxOs about vendor contracts and relationships, and negotiate with vendors.• Lead and manage a team of direct reports along with overseeing hiring, onboarding, training, and talent development.• Work with the team to develop global strategies with partners and build relationships with key stakeholders/executives.

• Spearheaded a team of 5 fulltime employees who collaborated with venture capital firms to connect startups with MetLife teams, using a customized Salesforce implementation to track and report all startup engagement and business opportunities.• Led the design and implementation of a model to identify and engage with high-potential startup companies. • Helped startups improve their odds of success while also guiding founders through the creation of products/services that could be immediately useful to MetLife.• Led MetLife’s first Startup Accelerator program in partnership with a third-party, including the management of all aspects of recruiting and executing the annual 3-month program.• Developed and sustained relationships with 100+ executives across Property & Casualty, Life, Retirement Income, Bancassurance, Dental, Disability, and Long-Term Care business units to identify optimization and growth opportunities.Highlights:• Vetted 350+ startup companies in 4 years.• Designed 50+ experimental projects and executed 15+ production contracts, targeting growth opportunities for business units.• Launched MetLife’s Digital Accelerator in partnership with Techstars (third-party) to discover unique market opportunities for MetLife product lines, yielding 19 equity investments into early-stage startups from the US, EMEA, and APAC.• Added new venture capital firms and expanded the private equity portfolio by collaborating with MetLife’s Private Equity organization.

• Directed operations of a B2B sales consultancy team that exclusively advocated startup technologies to MetLife employees.• Interviewed MetLife teams to identify opportunities; researched and spoke with VC-backed startups about their product/service and led them through pilot contracts and proof-of-concept test design.• Met with leading venture capital firms to pitch MetLife as a partner/investor, tracking all activities in a custom-designed Salesforce implementation.• Guided numerous startups through business and technology review processes to launch efficient experiments and execute production contracts with MetLife.Highlights:• Solidified MetLife’s reputation as an industry innovator and limited partner of choice; expanded limited partnerships between MetLife and over a dozen venture capital firms.• Coordinated annual Ignition event, providing 200+ executives an opportunity to engage directly with startups and founders.

• Motivated employees to discover unique ideas to grow sales and retain customers by designing innovation campaigns for global clients and MetLife business units.• Implemented a custom Salesforce environment to track MetLife’s relationships with venture capital firms and startups.Highlights:• Facilitated live innovation workshops for MetLife employees and B2B customers in the US, Chile, Mexico, India, UAE, Portugal, Poland, Greece, and the Netherlands.