Randolph (Randy) Brown

Randolph (Randy) Brown

Chief Investment Officer, Sun Life

Randy Brown is Chief Investment Officer of Sun Life. Randy manages Sun Life’s General Account globally across diversified portfolios, including public and private fixed income, real estate equity and debt, and infrastructure equity. Randy also leads the Office of the CIO. Under his leadership, the group works across the enterprise to enhance performance measurement and risk monitoring capabilities and increase the utilization of capital-efficient investment vehicles.

Randy is a member of the Sun Life Leadership Team and SLC Management Executive Committee, where he brings strategic insight to discussions on markets, investment trends and the evolving needs of institutional investors. His deep industry knowledge also makes him an important voice for the enterprise and its asset management businesses across the investment community. Randy chairs the Sustainability Committee for the Fixed Income business and serves on Sun Life’s International Sustainability Council, which oversees implementation of the global sustainability plan.

Randy joined the firm at the start of 2016 and has four decades of investment management expertise at highly respected global financial firms. Randy has held senior roles at Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, most recently as Global Head of Insurance and Pension Solutions, and as Head of Asset and Wealth Management for the U.K. region.

Previously, he was Co-Chief Investment Officer of Deutsche Asset Management, where he was responsible for a global investment team overseeing a portfolio of over one trillion euros of assets. Before the integration of Deutsche’s asset management and wealth management businesses, Randy was the head of its Insurance business.

Randy’s portfolio of work also includes senior leadership roles in asset management and trading at BlackRock, Morgan Stanley & Company and Salomon Brothers.

Randy holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering degrees, both in Electrical Engineering, from Cornell University. He also earned an MBA from Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, where he was a Lester B. Knight Scholar.

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