New York Life Appoints Slevin CIO

New York — New York Life Insurance Co. announced today that Senior VP Eileen Slevin has been elected CIO. She reports to Executive VP and Chief Administrative Officer Frank Boccio. 

Directing a staff of more than 1,300 technology professionals in six U.S. locations, Slevin is responsible for setting the strategic technology direction of New York Life as the leader of the company’s Corporate Information department, which provides technology services for New York Life customers, employees and agents. She also has direct management responsibility for two other strategic areas of the company: Business Resilience and Corporate Internet.

Slevin joined New York Life in 1977 in the Group Insurance department, and was promoted to assistant VP in 1988, corporate VP in 1991 and VP in 1993. After a transfer to the Corporate Information Department in 1995, Slevin was elected senior VP in 1999. Slevin also has served two terms in the company’s Management Advisory Council and currently is a steering committee member of New York Life’s Political Action Committee.

Slevin received a bachelor’s degree from Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York, and has been a member of the Health Insurance Association of American since 1979.

Source: New York Life Insurance Co.