Executive Spotlight
Fireman’s Fund Chief Tackles Sesquicentennial, Market
Choosing a historic icon that stood after San Francisco’s Great Earthquake and massive fire more than 100 years ago was a deft, almost poetic, public relations concept to celebrate Fireman’s Fund ...
Hand-Picked Berkshire Bear Ready to ‘Spice Things Up’ for Buffett This Weekend
Hedge fund trader Doug Kass had his first brush with fame at the age of 10, when he appeared on a U.S. television quiz show, Tic-Tac-Dough, and won every day for a week. More than five decades later, ...
PHLY’s New CEO Looks Ahead To Innovation & Profit
Philadelphia Insurance celebrated its 50 anniversary last year—before Robert O’Leary took the helm as chief executive officer. A video on the company’s website commemorating the event ends with ...
Buffett’s Non-Insurance Performance, Succession in Spotlight at ‘Woodstock for Capitalists’
Warren Buffett may be on safari for major acquisitions, which he likes to call elephants, but shareholders may wonder if his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has become the biggest elephant in the room. ...Insurance Salesman By Choice: PHLY’s Robert O’Leary
For Robert O’Leary, the new CEO of Philadelphia Insurance Company, the days when he peeled himself out of the driver’s seat of an unairconditioned car to sell casualty insurance policies around ...
O’Leary Set To Lead PHLY’s High Achievers & Loyal Soldiers
Although the name of the senior-most officer of Philadelphia Insurance is changing, just about everything else is going to stay the same at the 51-year old specialty insurance company, according to ...
Greenberg’s View: Opening Global Markets, Shaping Foreign Relations
During his 60-year career, Maurice "Hank" Greenberg helped build American International Group (AIG) into the world's largest insurer by opening global markets and getting services industries ...
Greenberg’s View: ‘White Blackbirds’ Make Corporate Culture Fly
Sixty years ago, a 27-year old U.S. Army officer stormed into the suite of the vice president of a Manhattan insurance company to complain about being snubbed by the firm's personnel director. The ...