Lunch, Learn and Lead: Lessons from a Globetrotting CEO

CANCELLED: Due to the impending snowstorm, we have cancelled Tuesday’s event. We will be rescheduling for the spring.

“Making an International Assignment a Building Block for Your Career Planning”

Harry Stout ’76, will share his experiences working abroad, including his role as Managing Director and CEO of ING Australia, and detail to students how they can take their careers international.

Harry is an acknowledged senior leader in the global financial services business with experience in all key business lines with particular expertise in marketing, sales, product innovation and distribution. He has over 25 years of financial services industry experience in the U.S. and abroad, working in Europe, Northern Asia, Africa, New Zealand and Australia.

Harry’s experience includes serving as Managing Director of Investments and Insurance with Australian and New Zealand Bank (ANZ), where he was based in Sydney and ran the Australian life insurance, investment, retirement services, general insurance and advice businesses for this large regional Australasian bank. During his time in Australia, he was also Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ING Australia.

His U.S. business experience includes serving as President of Voya’s U.S. Retail Annuity Business Group, where he directed Voya’s fixed, indexed and variable annuity business. He also spent over a decade with Fidelity & Guaranty Life Insurance Company where he served as Chief Executive Officer and President as well as holding key senior leadership roles for its parent companies USF&G Corporation, St. Paul Companies and Old Mutual U.S. Holdings, Inc. He began his career in public accounting with KPMG where he spent 10 years working primarily with multi-national enterprises.