Anant Bhalla is a Member of the Board at Kadenze, Inc. Anant has been instrumental in spinning off the Brighthouse Financial business from Metlife as an independent publicly listed company (NASDAQ: BHF) and raising capital from investors to establish Brighthouse's long term capital structure including a historic $3 billion debt IPO for a life insurance company. Brighthouse Financial, Inc. began trading at the Nasdaq exchange on August 7, 2017. Anant has been Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Brighthouse Financial, Inc. since August 2016. Prior to that he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Metlife’s U.S. Retail business. In that capacity, he lead its strategic review within Metlife and business strategy execution that is now the core of Brighthouse Financial. Prior to Metlife, he held senior positions at other various other financial services companies including: Senior Managing Director Strategy and CRO Global Consumer business at AIG; Chief Risk Officer and Treasurer at Lincoln Financial; and various roles across investments, finance and business at Ameriprise Financial. He was also instrumental in the 2005 spinoff of Ameriprise Financial (NYSE:AMP) from American Express. Anant received a bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Madras in Chennai, India and an MBA from S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai, India.