Leadership
Sandy Weill to Chair Ex-Steven Cohen Reinsurer
Sanford "Sandy" Weill, the former head of Citigroup Inc., was named chairman of the board at Hamilton Insurance Group Ltd., which runs the reinsurer that hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen exited. ...
The Hartford Elects Richardson to Board of Directors
The Hartford on Thursday announced the election of Julie Richardson to its board of directors. Richardson will serve on the board's Audit Committee as well as the Finance, Investment and Risk ...
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 ...
Carrier Management’s Top 5 Podcasts of 2013
Audio summaries of the news were available to Carrier Management readers in two forms this year. Some of our popular feature articles, such as "Reinsurers Target Regional Carriers as Alternative ...
Inga Beale: The Backstory of Lloyd’s Incoming CEO
Official biographies of Inga Beale, who became the first woman to lead Lloyd's as CEO on Jan. 1, reveal her prior leadership of a struggling Converium in the 1990s as a milestone of her career. But ...
CEOs Hurt Firm Performance By Overstaying Their Welcome: Study
The longer CEOs stay in power, the more likely chief executives are to limit outside sources of market and customer information, ultimately hurting firm performance. A new study suggests that most ...
Clubby Culture on U.S. Corporate Boards, Study Says
Almost 40 percent of U.S. corporate directors with responsibility for monitoring the profit-and-loss ledger have social ties to the chief executive, a study says, making them look more like lapdogs ...
Pacific Specialty’s CEO: Working Within Limits, Re-engaging Independent Agents
When employees of Pacific Specialty Insurance Co. bemoan the fact that they don't have a ton of money to spend on sales and marketing to generate growth, the CEO does not promise to find more ...