ON THE MOVE: Steven J. Goular Retires From MetLife; ING Adds Görkem Köseoğlu

Steven J. Goulart

Steven J. Goulart, Chief Investment Officer and President of MetLife Investment Management, will retire on August 31, 2023, in line with the firm’s age-65 retirement policy. MetLife Chief Financial Officer John McCallion will lead MetLife Investment Management, the institutional asset management business of MetLife. MetLife Chief Risk Officer Marlene Debel will lead MetLife Insurance Investments, responsible for MetLife’s general account. Ramy Tadros, Regional President of MetLife’s U.S. Business, will lead MetLife Holdings (MLH). These appointments will be effective September 1, 2023.

Görkem Köseoğlu

ING has appointed Görkem Köseoğlu as chief technology officer and member of the Management Board Banking. Görkem will take up his position on September 1, succeeding Ron van Kemenade, who stepped down effective April 30, 2023. Görkem is currently the chief operations officer of ING Netherlands, where he leads all the client services activities, the global transformation office, delivery tribes including data management, KYC services, collections, and fraud management. Görkem joined ING in 2012 as chief operations officer and chief information officer of ING Turkey where he led the transformation agenda, optimizing customer journeys, processes and legacy platforms. 

Julian Salisbury

Julian Salisbury will become a partner of Sixth Street, a global investment firm, and serve as Co-Chief Investment Officer. Salisbury is expected to start in early 2024. Salisbury brings to Sixth Street over 25 years of experience building and leading private and public markets investing businesses. He comes to the firm after a distinguished career at Goldman Sachs, where he most recently served as Chief Investment Officer of the Asset and Wealth Management Division.

Fintech Sandbox, a nonprofit that provides early-stage startups around the world with free access to critical datasets and infrastructure, has added Reetika Grewal, EVP and Head of Digital for Commercial Banking and the Corporate & Investment Bank at Wells Fargo, as a new member to its governance board.

Provenir, a global provider of data and AI-powered risk decisioning software, has appointed Richard Kern as Senior Vice President of Global Professional Services. Kern is an experienced global services leader with a demonstrated history of working with leading companies in the banking and financial services sector. Prior to joining Provenir, Kern was Vice President, Head of Implementation and Professional Services at Alkami Technology, a leading provider of digital banking services.

Georgia Frett has joined Tradefeedr, an independent FX Data Analytics Platform, as Head of Client Engagement. In this new role Frett is responsible for building the community of Liquidity Providers (LPs), buy-side clients and trading platforms. She joined Tradefeedr from The Finance Hive, where her most recent position was General Manager, FX. 

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