Jay Kaduson to join Voya Financial as CEO of Workplace Solutions
January 08 2025 - 3:15PM
Business Wire
Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA) announced today that Jay
Kaduson, an experienced financial services executive, will join the
company on Jan. 16, 2025, as chief executive officer (CEO) of
Workplace Solutions. Kaduson will oversee all aspects of the Health
Solutions and Wealth Solutions businesses, including the execution
of the company’s workplace strategy. He will report to Heather
Lavallee, chief executive officer of Voya Financial, and will join
the company’s Executive Committee.
“We are delighted to welcome Jay to Voya,” said Lavallee. “He
has deep industry operating experience and a track record of
achieving profitable growth and fostering strategic partnerships.
With his ability to drive innovation, nurture talent, and enhance
customer experience, he is the right person to lead Workplace
Solutions into its next chapter of growth as a comprehensive and
integrated workplace benefits provider. We know Jay’s strengths
well from his role as a strategic advisor to Voya over the years,
and he will be a tremendous asset to our team as a colleague as we
continue to execute and refine our workplace strategy.”
Kaduson has over 26 years of leadership experience in the
financial services industry, most recently at global consulting
firm PwC, which serves Fortune Global 500 companies. At PwC,
Kaduson led the firm’s growth business along with oversight of the
insurance, retirement, and wealth practices, including acting as
lead client partner for Voya. In his roles at PwC, Kaduson has also
spent time focused on building high-performing teams with
individuals from within the firm and across the industry to enhance
performance and provide a focus on risk management, asset
management, value creation and technology.
Prior to PwC, Kaduson spent 16 years at MetLife, where his deep
experience across group benefits, wealth, retirement, retail, and
asset management businesses provided him with a global perspective
on business transformation and employee solutions. Kaduson
ultimately served as MetLife’s global head of enterprise
relationship management, where he successfully established and
maintained strong partnerships with key financial institutions and
service providers.
“With its purpose-driven strategy and disciplined focus on
profitable growth, joining Voya was an easy decision, and one I am
very excited about,” said Kaduson. “Having worked with the Voya
leadership team over the past several years as a strategic advisor,
I have seen their commitment to addressing health and wealth needs
in the workplace. My hands-on experience with workplace benefits
businesses and years of market intelligence have given me great
insight into the importance of earning trust and recognition from
employers through innovation and service. I look forward to
contributing to the team’s continued success.”
Voya’s Workplace Solutions business provides workplace benefits
and savings products, technologies and solutions through the firm’s
Wealth Solutions and Health Solutions businesses. Reporting to
Kaduson will be Amy Vaillancourt, president of Wealth Solutions,
Andrew Frend, president, Health Solutions, as well as Courtney
Kunzelmann, chief marketing officer, Workplace Solutions.
Kaduson holds a Bachelor of Arts from Muhlenberg College and a
Juris Doctor from New England School of Law.
As an industry leader focused on the delivery of benefits,
savings, and investment solutions to and through the workplace,
Voya is committed to its purpose of, together, fighting for
everyone’s opportunity for a better financial future.
About Voya Financial®
Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA) is a leading health, wealth
and investment company with approximately 9,000 employees who are
focused on achieving Voya’s aspirational vision: “Clearing your
path to financial confidence and a more fulfilling life.” Through
products, solutions and technologies, Voya helps its 15.2 million
individual, workplace and institutional clients become well
planned, well invested and well protected. Benefitfocus, a Voya
company and a leading benefits administration provider, extends the
reach of Voya’s workplace benefits and savings offerings by
engaging directly with more than 12 million employees in the U.S.
Certified as a “Great Place to Work” by the Great Place to Work®
Institute, Voya is purpose-driven and committed to conducting
business in a way that is economically, ethically, socially and
environmentally responsible. Voya has earned recognition as: one of
the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by Ethisphere; a member of the
Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index; and a “Best Place to Work for
Disability Inclusion” on the Disability Equality Index. For more
information, visit voya.com. Follow Voya Financial on Facebook,
Instagram and LinkedIn.
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