Deanna currently serves as CEO of Ceres Life Insurance. She previously served as President and CEO of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, a Fortune 250 mutual life insurer, from 2011 to 2020, where she led product strategy, distribution, and digital transformation across a decade of sustained growth.
Earlier in her career, Deanna was a principal at McKinsey & Company, where she helped lead the North American Life Insurance Practice, and held senior executive roles at AXA Financial and New York Life. She has also served as a director of The Vanguard Group, a trustee of the Vanguard Funds, and chair of the American Council of Life Insurers, and holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
