William R. Berkley |
CONTACT: Lisa Lacher, (515) 271-3119, lisa.lacher@drake.edu
The College of Business & Public Administration will showcase career paths in insurance at a special event Wednesday, Feb. 7. The keynote speaker will be William R. Berkley, CEO and president of W. R. Berkley Corp., which operates Continental Western in
W. R. Berkley Corp. was chosen as the best-managed insurance company of the year by Forbes magazine in the Jan. 8 issue. Founded in 1967, the Fortune 500 company is currently the country’s ninth-largest property casualty insurance holding company and operates in all 50 states, with assets exceeding billion and annual revenues of billion. W. R. Berkley Corp. operates 31 units, 25 of which were internally built from scratch, encompassing five segments of the property casualty insurance business – specialty insurance, regional property casualty insurance, alternative markets, reinsurance and international.
Berkley has been chairman and CEO since the company’s inception and became president and COO in 2000. During his career,
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