MetLife: Joanne H. Nguyen joins MetLife in Green Bay

Contact: Peter Thomas

(414) 615-4866

pathomas@metlife.com

DePere, WI January 24, 2011 – MetLife is pleased to announce that Joanne H. Nguyen, CRPC® has joined the firm as a Financial Services Representative.

Joanne Nguyen is a graduate of University of Illinois at Chicago. She obtained Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor®, Candidate for Certified Financial Planner®. She is a registered representative of MetLife, and is a member of Saint Mary Parish, MOPS in Peshtigo and Susan G. Komen for the Cure® . She has worked in the financial services industry for 10 years.

DePere, an office of MetLife, offers a broad array of financial products and services including life, disability income, long-term care insurance and annuities, mutual funds and investment products. The company is located at 1710 Lawrence Drive, Suite 100, DePere WI 54115 and Joanne Nguyen can be reached at (312) 725-9114 and at jhnguyen@metlife.com.

MetLife is a subsidiary of MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET), a leading provider of insurance and financial services with operations throughout the United States and Latin America, Europe and Asia Pacific regions. Through its domestic and international subsidiaries and affiliates, MetLife, Inc. reaches more than 70 million customers around the world and MetLife is the largest life insurer in the United States (based on life insurance in-force). The MetLife companies offer life insurance, annuities, auto and home insurance, retail banking and other financial services to individuals, as well as group insurance, reinsurance and retirement & savings products and services to corporations and other institutions. For more information, please visit http://www.metlife.com.

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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 200 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10166. Securities products and investment advisory services offered by MetLife Securities, Inc. (member FINRA/SIPC) and a registered investment adviser, New York, NY 10166. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and MetLife Securities, Inc. are affiliates.