Emilia Bunea replaces Theodor Alexandrescu as Metropolitan Life CEO

Newsroom 24/06/2014 | 11:25

Emilia Bunea will be taken over as Metropolitan Life CEO from Theodor Alexandrescu starting July 1, the insurer announced on Tuesday. Alexandrescu has been running the local branch of the insurance company for the past 9 years.

Prior to the appointment, Emilia Bunea worked as Chief Financial Officer for ING Group, on the ING Insurance Europe segment, headquartered in Amsterdam. Bunea started working for ING in 2007 and before that she worked as Deputy General Director and CFO for Interamerican Group (today Eureko Romania) between 2000 and 2007.

Emilia Bunea (44 years old) is CFA certified on behalf of the CFA Institute US and has an Executive MBA diploma from the Washington University, Seattle.

“I am honored to take on this challenge of continuing and supporting Metropolitan Life’s development on the local market. My main objective is to keep the promise made to our clients in supporting their life goals”, according to Emilia Bunea.

theodorTheodor Alexandrescu will be moving on as CEO of MetLife Golf, headquartered in Dubai, representing 5 countries: Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates.

Alexandrescu has been part of Metropolitan Life since 1999, when he joined the team as Sales Manager. He continued to advance to different positions (Chief Marketing Officer, Deputy Chief Executive Officer) until 2005 when he became CEo of Metropolitan Life Romania.

“I am delighted to assume this new role in my career – the challenge and the opportunity of leading MetLife operations in the Gulf area. I trust that Emilia will succesfully pursue Metropolitan Life’s strategic development plans, in order to achieve our objective of becoming the leader of the life insurance market”, according to Theodor Alexandrescu.

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