MetLife is all set to welcome Shurawl Sibblies as the new executive vice president and chief human resource officer, starting 1 August 2024. She is presently the colleague strategic partner and global labour relations, American Express.
This will not be Sibblies first association with MetLife though. She has worked with the company for over seven years in the past, from 2012 to 2019. Initially, she worked as vice president, head of global workforce analytics for two years, and then went on to become vice president, HR business partner corporate functions. By 2018, she had been elevated to the position of senior vice president, HR business partner (US business and global functions).
Sibblies, who holds a postgraduate degree in predictive analytics and an MBA in finance from the University of Rochester, began her professional journey with Kwasha Lipton as client account supervisor in 1993. She then joined Hewlett Packard as senior financial analyst, in 1997. From 1999 to 2004, she was with Citi, as a financial management associate (audit and risk review-corporate finance) for the first year, based out of New York, then as financial management associate (structured trade finance, EMEA), based out of London. By 2001, she was back in New York, as vice president (liquidity product management). When she left Citi in 2005, she was vice president- asset management finance.
From 2005 to 2013, she was with TIAA. She joined as director-CFO, corporate functions and went on to become senior vice president (head of HR analytics, strategic workforce planning, talent acquisition) in 2011. Then came her seven-year long tenure with MetLife that saw her working out of New York.
Her next stop was American Express, where she started off as senior vice president, colleague strategic partner(global consumer services). Less than two years into this role, she was elevated to executive vice president, colleague strategic partner and global labour relations.
Known to be an empathetic, compassionate and authentic leader, Shurawl Sibblies will prove to be an asset to MetLife.
