Michael G. Carter is senior vice president and chief financial officer. In this role, he is <br />responsible for the company’s financial management function, including the actuarial, <br />controllers, corporate planning and financial management departments. He also is a member of <br />the company’s Management Committee. <br /> <br />Carter joined Northwestern Mutual in 1994 as a senior attorney in the law department. In January <br />1995, he became assistant general counsel, serving as an investment tax attorney before moving <br />to the corporate planning & development department as director of planning in 1999. <br /> <br />In 2001, Carter joined the policyowner services department, serving in several capacities before <br />becoming executive officer department head in 2004. He was named executive officer of field <br />compensation and planning effective February 1, 2006. Carter was named vice president and <br />chief financial officer in June of 2008. Prior to joining Northwestern Mutual, Carter was an <br />attorney with Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee. <br /> <br />Carter received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Appalachian State <br />University, Boone, N.C., and a law degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law, <br />Chapel Hill in 1988. He became a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in 1994 and achieved his <br />Fellowship in the Life Management Institute (FLMI) in 1995. Carter’s professional affiliations <br />include the Wisconsin State Bar, American Bar Association, WICPA and AICPA. <br /> <br />Carter is currently a member of the board of directors of the Milwaukee Public Museum, a <br />treasurer and board member of the Zoological Society of Milwaukee, and cabinet member of both <br />the United Way of Milwaukee and the United Performing Arts Fund. He is a past board president <br />of both the First Stage Children’s Theater and Sojourner Truth House (now Sojourner Family <br />Peace Center). Carter is past board member of the Center for The Deaf and Hard of Hearing (now <br />The Center for Communication, Hearing & Deafness), St. Eugene’s School and the Fox Point <br />Foundation (treasurer).