Richard J Carbone

Richard J. Carbone is executive vice president and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Prudential Financial, responsible for its treasury, controllership, tax, business line CFO functions and M&A activity. Carbone joined Prudential as CFO in July of 1997 and was elected executive vice president in 2008. Previously, he was the Global Controller of Salomon, Inc., and a Managing Director of Salomon Brothers, where he was responsible for all aspects of the controllership function including pricing verification of securities inventory, and technology development for financial systems. He also served for a brief period as CFO of Salomon Brothers Europe, based in London. Carbone was recruited by Salomon in May 1995 from Bankers Trust New York Corporation. At Bankers Trust, he was Senior Vice President and Controller from 1988 to 1993. In 1993, he joined the Bankers Trust Individual Services Group as Managing Director, supervising the Brokerage, Banking, Trust and Custody areas as well as Operations and Technology for the Private Banking Business. He began his career at Price Waterhouse & Co. in 1976, and left to join E.F. Hutton Group, Inc. in 1981, where he rose to Senior Vice President and Deputy Controller. Carbone received an MBA from St. John’s University and is a Certified Public Accountant. He served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps from 1969 to 1972. Carbone is a board member of The Group of North American Insurance Enterprises (GNAIE), where he served as Chairman from April 2005 to April 2007, as well as a member of the International Accounting Standards Board Insurance Working Group. He’s also a member of the CFO Executive Board, and on the Board of Trustees for Mount Loretto Mission of the Immaculate Virgin for Homeless & Destitute Children.