MetLife, which has 600-plus Bloomfield employees, announced Tuesday its chief executive from West Hartford is retiring in April.
The New York-based company said CEO and Chairman Steven A. Kandarian will retire effective April 30. He will be succeeded by Michel Khalaf, MetLife’s president of U.S. business since 2017.
“The timing is also not much of a surprise since Kandarian will turn 67 this year..” MetLife, the nation’s second largest insurer, said in a statement.
As of Sept. 2018, MetLife had 18,000 U.S. employees and 625 in Connecticut, according to Hartford Business Journal’s 2019 Book of Lists.
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The company had a larger Bloomfield presence in recent years, but terminated 61 workers there in 2017 as it restructured operations.
