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Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA), announced today that it has been named one of the 2018 Top 70 Companies for Executive Women by the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE). The annual NAFE Top Companies list recognizes American corporations that have an environment where women have significant influence to make decisions that affect their company’s future and its bottom line.

“Voya’s culture supports women in their career journey so they may reach their full potential at all levels within the organization,” said Kevin Silva, Voya’s Chief Human Resources Officer.

Companies considered for this award respond to approximately 200 questions on representation of women at all levels of the organization. The process includes tracking access and use of programs and policies that promote the advancement of women, as well as training and accountability of managers in relation to the number of women who advance.

Betty Spence, president of NAFE, says, “NAFE’s annual scrutiny of women’s progress at American companies offers essential data about the movement of women into top leadership in the private sector. In this first year of having five NAFE Top Companies with boards of 50 percent or more women, we point to a synergy between the greater presence of women on the board and an increase in the number of winning companies with women CEOs and with percent-plus women in the C-suite (10 companies).”

The NAFE Top 70 Companies (PDF) will be featured in the April/May issue of Working Mother.

About Voya Financial^®

Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA), helps Americans plan, invest and protect their savings — to get ready to retire better. Serving the financial needs of approximately 14.7 million individual and institutional customers in the United States, Voya is a Fortune 500 company that had $8.6 billion in revenue in 2017. The company had $555 billion in total assets under management and administration as of Dec. 31, 2017. With a clear mission to make a secure financial future possible — one person, one family, one institution at a time — Voya’s vision is to be America’s Retirement Company^®. Certified as a “Great Place to Work” by the Great Place to Work^® Institute, Voya is equally committed to conducting business in a way that is socially, environmentally, economically and ethically responsible. Voya has been recognized as one of the 2018 World’s Most Ethical Companies^® by the Ethisphere Institute, one of the 2018 World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune magazine and one of the Top Green Companies in the U.S. by Newsweek magazine. For more information, visit voya.com. Follow Voya Financial on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter @Voya.

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