CEO / Chief Executive
Goodyear Execs Released After ‘Boss-Napping’
French trade unionists released two executives on Tuesday after holding them for more than 24 hours at the country's Goodyear tire plant to demand higher payouts for more than a thousand planned ...
Argo Establishes 2014 Sidecar, Issues Cat Bonds
Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. announced Monday that it establised a new sidecar reinsurer and separately announced that it issued $172 million in catastrophe bonds. The sidecar, Harambee Re ...
Social Media is Blessing, Curse for Uber; CEO Defends Surge Pricing
Uber Chief Executive Travis Kalanick knows the value of a good controversy. After his upstart company, which lets people summon rides at the touch of a smartphone button, provoked a flurry of social ...
From Lawyer to Carrier CEO: Charting a Career Course
"You have to find opportunity within every challenge you face." That's how Brian Cohen, the CEO of Pacific Specialty Insurance, sums up the leadership lesson he learned during a prior position at ...
CEOs with Attractive Faces Boost Stock Returns
If your CEO has an attractive face, then an appearance on CNBC might boost your company's return, according to two professors from the University of Wisconsin. The findings of Joseph Taylor Halford ...
AmTrust Completes Deal for Surety Writer Insco Dico
AmTrust Financial Services, Inc. announced Friday that it received final regulatory approval for a California-based surety writer, The Insco Dico Group, and completed the $88.7 million acquisition. ...
AmTrust Announces First Stock Repurchase Plan Since 2007
AmTrust Financial Services Inc. gained in New York trading Thursday after the insurer's board approved the repurchase of as much as $150 million in shares following a stock slump last month. The ...
Google Chair Says Missing Social Networks Was Biggest Mistake
Google Inc. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said missing the rise of social media was the biggest mistake he made at the world's largest search-engine operator. "In our defense, we were busy working ...