TIAA-CREF today announced the appointment of Virginia M. (Gina) Wilson as<br />Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.<br /><br />Ms. Wilson will oversee TIAA-CREF’s finance and actuarial functions, including<br />financial management and planning, actuarial, tax, accounting, and financial<br />reporting. She will be a member of TIAA-CREF’s executive management team and<br />will work across the organization to continue to strengthen financial<br />processes and maximize the value of the organization’s assets.<br /><br />“I am pleased to welcome an executive of Gina Wilson’s talent and experience<br />with growing, client-focused companies to our management team,” said TIAA-CREF<br />chief executive Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. “Gina’s financial expertise, insurance<br />industry experience and demonstrated leadership will enable us to build on our<br />strong financial foundation as we broaden our capabilities to meet clients’<br />needs.”<br /><br />Wilson was most recently executive vice president and chief financial officer<br />at Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, where she created the financial and<br />technology infrastructure upon its spin off from Cendant Corporation in 2006.<br />From 2003 to 2006, she had served Cendant as its EVP and Chief Accounting<br />Officer. Before joining Cendant, she was corporate controller of MetLife, Inc.<br />and, before that, of Transamerica’s life insurance operations. At the<br />beginning of her career, she served a wide variety of financial service,<br />not-for-profit and other clients during her almost 20 years at Deloitte.<br /><br />Ms. Wilson said: “TIAA-CREF has a long-term approach to stability, and I am<br />proud to join a performance-oriented organization, that has stayed true to its<br />mission and values, at such an exciting time in its evolution.”<br /><br />Wilson succeeds Georganne C. Proctor, who in January was named TIAA-CREF’s<br />Chief Integration Officer, a role in which she leads the organization’s work<br />to promote ease of doing business and a holistic client experience. During her<br />four-year tenure as CFO, Georganne positioned TIAA-CREF for long-term success<br />and TIAA’s capital and contingency reserves – which anchor the company’s<br />claims-paying ability – are among the highest in TIAA’s history.<br /><br />Wilson holds a B.S. and an M.A.S. from the University of Illinois. She serves<br />as a director of the Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic and is a trustee for<br />Catholic Charities in New York.