CEO, ING Financial Solutions

Lynne Ford serves as CEO of ING Financial Solutions, the company’s annuity and rollover business that offers simpler, lower-cost annuity and non-annuity products to retiring baby boomers and the rollover market. Ford joined ING in January of 2010.

She was previously executive vice president and managing director of the Retail Retirement Group at Wells Fargo. Ford has spent a majority of her professional career at Wachovia, which merged with Wells Fargo in late 2008, serving in a number of executive capacities within its investment and distribution organizations. In her recent role, Ford was responsible for the sales, marketing and operations for annuity and IRA products distributed across the company.

Prior to that role, Ford also served as senior vice president and director of sales initiatives for Evergreen Investments from 1997-2003, and a variety of sales capacities including national sales manager within Evergreen Investments from 1993-1997.

Ford earned a bachelor’s degree from Davidson College and a master’s degree from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.