Maurice Kuykendoll

Maurice is currently the Chief Financial Officer for Prudential Group Insurance, which provides and distributes group life, long-term and short-term disability and corporate and trust-owned life insurance in the U.S. to institutional clients, professional associations and affinity groups. In his role he is responsible for all finance-related activities supporting the Group Insurance business. Prior to his current role, Maurice was the Finance Lead for the Company’s Transformation Office with additional responsibility for overseeing Finance’s expense center of excellence and the Corporate & Other segment unit within the global controllers group. Maurice also served as the national co-director for the Black Leadership Forum, the company’s largest and oldest business resource group; he recently passed the leadership title on but is still an active BLF member. Since 2008, he has held positions of increasing responsibility at Prudential, including a two-year expatriate assignment in Tokyo, Japan, Controller for Prudential International Insurance (PII), encompassing Prudential’s operating life insurance and related financial services businesses outside of the U.S and chief of staff to Prudential’s Global Chief Financial Officer. Maurice holds an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School, and a B.S. in Accounting from Hampton University. He is a certified public accountant. He serves on the board of directors of The Gloucester Institute, the advisory board of the Hampton University School of Business, the Board of Rising Tide Capital and as a trustee of the YMCA of Newark and Vicinity.