John McCallion

Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Head of MetLife Investment Management MetLife

Last Reviewed: October 3, 2026

Executive Summary

John McCallion has been Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of MetLife since 2018 and, since September 2023, also head of MetLife Investment Management, its institutional asset management business, which MetLife says oversees about $742 billion in total assets. As finance chief he is responsible for financial reporting, treasury, corporate actuarial, tax, investor relations and mergers and acquisitions. McCallion joined MetLife in 2006 after ten years in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ insurance audit practice. At MetLife he was chief financial officer of the investments department, head of investor relations, chief financial officer of the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, based in London, and treasurer from 2016. He has run both the company’s finances and its institutional investment business since 2023.

Career Highlights

• Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of MetLife since 2018.
• Head of MetLife Investment Management since September 2023.
• Executive Vice President and Treasurer, 2016 to 2018.
• Chief Financial Officer of MetLife’s EMEA region, 2012 to 2016.
• Head of investor relations, 2011 to 2012.

Professional Journey

McCallion earned a BS in accounting from Syracuse University and an MBA from the Wharton School, and MetLife says he is a certified public accountant. He spent ten years in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ insurance audit practice, working with life and property and casualty insurers, before joining MetLife in July 2006.

At MetLife he was vice president and chief financial officer of the investments department, head of investor relations from 2011 to 2012 and chief financial officer of the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, based in London, from 2012 to 2016. From July 2016 he was executive vice president and treasurer.

He became chief financial officer in 2018, at times also holding the treasurer title, according to the company’s 10-K. In September 2023 he added responsibility as head of MetLife Investment Management. MetLife’s 2026 proxy lists him among its named executive officers. MetLife, based in New York, reported total revenues of $77.1 billion for 2025 and had about 46,000 employees, according to its 10-K.

MetLife’s Global Executive Leadership Team, as listed on its website, comprises the chief executive, the regional presidents for the U.S., Asia, Latin America and EMEA, and the heads of finance and investment management, risk, legal, technology and operations, human resources and marketing. He is a member of that team and is listed among the named executive officers in MetLife’s 2026 proxy.

Education

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

MBA

Syracuse University

BS, Accounting