Biography

Ms. Smith has been an independent director of Price Group since 2023 and serves as a member on the Audit Committee and the Executive Compensation and Management Development Committee. Ms. Smith is the senior vice president for regional business and distribution development of MetLife, Inc. (MetLife), one of the world’s leading financial services companies, providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits, and asset management, since 2016, and has been with MetLife since 1993. Previously, Ms. Smith served as vice president of: the customer unit (Midwest) in MetLife’s group benefits national accounts organization; the group, voluntary & worksite sales regional market (Southeast region); MetLife’s executive benefits sales organization; group insurance underwriting; strategic planning for the institutional business organization; and institutional business service, operations, and underwriting. Additionally, she held a variety of roles in MetLife’s finance organization, including chief financial officer of sales and service and the institutional financial planning officer.

Ms. Smith earned a B.A. in accounting from Aurora University and an M.B.A. with a concentration in information technology from Benedictine University. She is a certified management accountant and a graduate of the executive management program at Smith College.

Ms. Smith is a member of the boards of directors for Versant Health, a wholly owned subsidiary of MetLife, and MetLife Legal Plans, Inc., which is also owned by MetLife.