Voya Chief Client Officer Exits

Voya Financial is shuffling its team of client-facing retirement product distribution personnel, as its chief client officer, William Harmon, will step down from the role on Friday, a spokesperson confirmed this week, after six years at the firm.

The Voya spokesperson praised Harmon’s contributions to the firm.

“Given the success Bill has achieved in creating a structure, strong culture and setting the teams up for success, he will be leaving Voya at the end of June,” the Voya spokesperson wrote in an email. “Bill has exemplified what it means to take a holistic approach to serving clients, helping Voya both grow and retain clients during his tenure at the company. In doing so, he has helped to successfully establish a strong sales and distribution team that is aligned and well-positioned to succeed to advance our growth plans.”

Brad Galiney, senior vice president and head of health solutions distribution and client engagement, and Doug Murray, leader of wealth solutions and client engagement, will combine to fill the role, according to the spokesperson.

Galiney, Murray and their teams, “will leverage all that has been built to advance Voya’s growth plans and will remain focused on growing Voya’s workplace strategy, which is centered on addressing our customers’ health, wealth and investment needs through the workplace and institutions,” the spokesperson wrote.

“Our focus remains on continuing to serve the workplace savings and benefits needs of all our customers and partnering closely with them and intermediaries,” the spokesperson added. “We have both significant scale and great distribution relationships that give us confidence to meet the needs of all our customers—both through the products and solutions that we offer today, as well as further capabilities that we are developing, and in doing so remain encouraged by the market interest in our workplace strategy.”

Harmon joined Voya in 2017 as president of retirement for the corporate market.