New York Life announced today that Chatham resident Cara-Anne Gagliano joined New York Life as a senior vice president in the Insurance Group. 

Ms. Gagliano is in charge of information technology strategy and all application development for life products, reporting to Susan Paternoster, senior vice president and chief information officer for the Insurance Group.  Prior to joining New York Life, Ms. Gagliano most recently worked at Nomura Securities International as global COO for equities technology, where she had global responsibility for business analysis, project governance, risk and control, and overall financial management.  Before that, she held senior information technology leadership roles at CIT Group, Lehman Brothers, and Deutsche Asset Management. 

Ms. Gagliano earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from St. John’s University.  She resides in Chatham, NJ with her two daughters.