Catherine Cole joined Aflac in November 2023 as Managing Director and Head of Private Debt, Strategic Partnerships, and Business Development. In July 2024, Catherine expanded her role and became the Head of Private Assets and Strategic Partnerships.  She is responsible for the continued development and management of Aflac’s private asset investments.  This includes oversight of internally and externally managed private debt strategies in structured private credit, middle market lending, real estate lending and infrastructure debt and oversight of private equity and real estate equity strategies.  She is also responsible for supporting the company’s existing strategic partners and assessing potential new strategic investment opportunities to enhance value creation. Catherine is a member of the Global Investments Executive Committee.

Catherine has more than 17 years of industry experience in asset management and financial markets. Prior to joining Aflac, she was a senior portfolio manager in the Financial Institutions Group at BlackRock, managing fixed income portfolios for insurance clients. Before joining BlackRock in 2012, Catherine was an associate at Goldman Sachs in Macro Cross Asset Sales and began her career as an analyst at UBS.