MetLife announced that Nick Nadgauda will join the company as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, effective March 10, 2025. Nadgauda will report to Bill Pappas, Executive Vice President and Head of Global Technology and Operations.
Nick Nadgauda will oversee MetLife’s application development, infrastructure, enterprise platforms, and architecture teams. He will guide the company’s strategic technology vision and execution, driving initiatives to enhance differentiation throughout the customer journey, according to the company.
Nadgauda will also lead MetLife’s collaboration with NC TECH on the Center for Technology Workforce Innovation. This partnership aims to advance the growth and vitality of North Carolina’s tech workforce.
MetLife’s Global Technology Hub, located in Cary, North Carolina, employs 2,600 staff, the company stated.
Nick comes to MetLife from Citi, where he built a 20-year career. Over his two decades there, Nick played an integral role in growing, steering and shaping the vision and technology for Citi Services, most recently as the CIO leading a global team of 15,000.
Citi Services leverages high-scale, market leading technology in a highly regulated sector to provide payment processing, global custody, liquidity management, and working capital solutions across 90 countries.
Prior to joining Citi, Nick was the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Invertica, a software company specializing in web-services and integration middleware.
He began his career with Motorola’s Corporate Research Labs and holds six patents in wireless communication algorithms.
Nick has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering Systems from the University of Michigan.
