Carl Groth

Carl Groth

Chief Risk Officer


Carl Groth is Chief Risk Officer for Legal & General Retirement America. In that role, he oversees and maintains risk governance, analytics, compliance and control frameworks across the US Retirement business. Additionally, he provides appropriate independent advice, oversight, challenge and supports the broader Legal & General global risk management team.

Prior to joining Legal & General Retirement America, Carl served in senior risk management roles at Principal Financial Group. He joined as Chief Risk Officer for Principal International and later served as head of Financial Risk Management where he was responsible for overseeing the Group’s investment risk management, ALM, derivatives, stress testing, economic capital modeling and US ORSA. Previous to Principal, Carl served as KPMG’s Insurance Industry Risk Management Advisory Practice leader.

Carl has an MBA in Finance and Investments with honors from The George Washington University and a BA in Economics from the University of Washington.