My Chi To, CLO of Voya Financial. (Courtesy photo)

Voya Financial Inc., a retirement, investment and insurance company with 6,000 employees, has hired My Chi To as executive vice president and chief legal officer.

To replaces Larry Port, who retired in February after nearly six years with the New York City-based, New York Stock Exchange-listed company.

To joins Voya from the New York State Department of Financial Services, where she's been executive deputy superintendent of insurance for 2½ years. In that role, she led a 500-person division—including examiners, actuaries and lawyers—supervising more than 1,600 entities with $5.5 trillion in assets.

To will oversee all aspects of Voya's law, compliance and external affairs department and the internal audit team. She also will be an an adviser to senior management and the board of directors on legal, compliance, securities and corporate governance matters.

Before joining the New York State Department of Financial Services in 2020, she spent more than two decades at the New York City-based Am Law 100 firm Debevoise & Plimpton.

Voya launched in 1991 and has 14.3 million individual, workplace and institutional clients. The company reported $4.2 billion in revenues last year.