Michael James O’Connor

Mr. Michael James O’Connor, was appointed as a non-executive Director of the Company with effect from 27 March 2020. Mr. O’Connor is the General Counsel of MMLIC, leading its legal, compliance, government relations, internal audit and corporate governance functions. He is a member of MMLIC’s Executive Leadership team. Mr. O’Connor initially joined MMLIC’s Law Division in 2005 and from 2008-2011, he led the company’s corporate law and government relations teams.

From 2011 to 2017, Mr. O’Connor served in a number of business leadership positions at MMLIC, first as Chief of Staff to MMLIC’s CEO Roger Crandall and later as head of corporate development and mergers and acquisitions and then as head of MMLIC’s international insurance operations. MMLIC is the sole member of MassMutual International LLC, a substantial shareholder of the Company.

Prior to joining MMLIC, Mr. O’Connor served from 2002-2005 as U.S. General Counsel of Irving Oil Corporation, an independent global petroleum refiner and marketer. From 1995 until 2002, Mr. O’Connor practiced corporate law at Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston, where he was a member of the M&A/Corporate Governance and Securities & Corporate Finance practice groups.

Mr. O’Connor received a B.A. in Legal Studies from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He earned his J.D. from the Boston University School of Law, where he was a G. Joseph Tauro Distinguished Scholar and an Editor of the Boston University Law Review, and his M.B.A., majoring in Finance, from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.