Cissy Williams

SVP, chief customer officer

Cissy Williams is Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Officer for Protective Life Corporation. In her current role, she is responsible for the strategic vision of customer experience and accountable for collaborating with enterprise-wide business owners to execute on strategy. Ms. Williams oversees operations of the annuity business, life insurance administration, licensing, contracting and compensation, and claims. In 2015, she joined our organization as Protective’s first Customer Experience leader.

Prior to joining Protective, Ms. Williams served in leadership roles in the development and delivery of operational strategies at Unum. She led strategy development and planning, enabling Unum’s three companies to leverage more enterprise assets to create and sustain business value.

Ms. Williams earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University and Master of Business Administration from Wake Forest University.