Gretchen H. Garrigues — Executive VP & Global Chief Marketing Officer at Manulife Financial Corp

Ms. Gretchen H. Garrigues has been Global Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President at Manulife Financial Corporation since August 08, 2016. Ms. Garrigues serves as Executive Vice President and Global Chief Marketing Officer of The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company and is responsible for it's global marketing and communications. She is a member of Manulife's Executive Committee and Head of the Global Marketing Leadership Team. In her role leading the global marketing and communications team, She focuses on global branding as well as ensuring that marketing strategies and the customer experience support global business growth. Ms. Garrigues serves as the Head of The Global Marketing Leadership Team at Manulife. Ms. Garrigues is responsible for Manulife's global marketing and communications, focusing on global branding as well as ensuring that marketing strategies and the customer experience support global business growth. Ms. Garrigues served as the Global Chief Marketing Officer of First Data Corporation since July 2014, where she led marketing efforts to deliver on First Data's 2015 IPO as well as being responsible for strengthening its brand, growing demand for its products and supporting its sales organization with digital tools to drive revenue. Ms. Garrigues is leading the First Data's global marketing efforts, including corporate and product marketing, branding, innovation and thought leadership. She joined First Data with a deep financial services background and leadership skills developed over a long career with GE Capital. She served as Senior Managing Director of global strategic marketing at GE Capital and was responsible for strategic planning, new product development, market intelligence and customer insights. She joined GE Capital in 1997 in its Paris office and held positions of increasing responsibility that spanned a wide array of financial products and services, ranging from consumer finance, credit cards and insurance to business credit, capital markets, private equity, equipment financing, commercial leasing and structured corporate lending. Ms. Garrigues led marketing organizations for several GE Capital businesses around the globe, producing successful commercial strategies and building high performing marketing teams, as well as strengthening customer focus and value propositions to drive growth, profitability and long-term market sustainability. Prior to joining GE Capital, Ms. Garrigues served as a Foreign Trade Officer for the U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service based in Paris, after running a successful startup venture providing language training and translation services across Europe. Ms. Garrigues served as a board member of the Commercial Finance Association (CFA) and the National Council on Competitive Intelligence. She also served as a board member of GE Capital Chairman's Global Diversity Council and was chair of the GE Women's Network for the company's Stamford/Norwalk hub. She received numerous honors while at GE Capital, including the 2013 GE Capital Leadership Award for Outstanding Contributions to Diversity and the 2012 GE Women's Network Award for Outstanding Leadership. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and holds an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.