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Audit
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Compensation
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Investment
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Nominating and Corporate Governance
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Underwriting
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Risk
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Kenneth J. LeStrange
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Endurance's founder, Kenneth J. LeStrange is Chairman of the Board of Directors and served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer from the company's inception to February 2010 when he retired as President and Chief Executive Officer.
Mr. LeStrange has over twenty-seven years of experience in property and casualty underwriting. He has significant experience as a treaty and facultative underwriter and manager of treaty underwriting operations at Swiss Reinsurance Company and American Re Corporation. He began his underwriting career with Hartford Insurance Group and held several underwriting management positions at Swiss Re. During his tenure at American Re from 1986 to December 1997, he served as Executive Vice President of American Re and as President of its alternative market subsidiary, Am Re Managers, Inc., from 1989 to December 1997. In December 1997, he joined Aon Corporation as Chairman and CEO of its alternative market operations and was later named Chairman and CEO of Aon's retail brokerage operations for the Americas. Mr. LeStrange remained with Aon until he joined Endurance in 2001. Mr. LeStrange received a BA in both Economics and English from Colgate University. He has pursued graduate studies in Finance at New York University and Fordham University.
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John T. Baily
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John T. Baily has been a director since August 2003. Mr. Baily was formerly President of Swiss Re Capital Partners, where he worked from 1999 to 2002. Prior to joining Swiss Re, Mr. Baily was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (and its predecessor, Coopers & Lybrand) for 23 years, serving as the head of the Coopers & Lybrand Insurance Practice Group for 13 years. Mr. Baily also serves on the boards of directors of, NYMAGIC, Inc., RLI Corp. and Albright College. A graduate of both Albright College (BA, Economics) and the University of Chicago (MBA), Mr. Baily is a CPA and has served on the board of Coopers & Lybrand and as Chairman of the AICPA Insurance Companies Committee.
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Norman Barham
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Norman Barham has been a director since August 2004. Mr. Barham was Vice Chairman and President of Global Operations of Marsh, Inc., the largest diversified insurance brokerage and risk management services company in the world, from 1997 to 2000. Prior to joining Marsh, Inc., Mr. Barham held numerous senior management roles in various parts of Johnson & Higgins from 1975 to 1997, prior to the merger of Johnson & Higgins and Marsh & McLennan Companies, including President, Chief Technical Officer and Head of Global Property Insurance. Mr. Barham currently serves on the board of directors of Queens College and Frenchman's Creek.
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Galen R. Barnes
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Galen R. Barnes has been a director since May 2004. Mr. Barnes was formerly President and Chief Operating Officer of Nationwide Mutual Insurance, where he worked from 1975 to 2003. Mr. Barnes held numerous senior and general management roles in various parts of the Nationwide organization, having previously been President of Nationwide Property and Casualty Affiliates, and President and Chief Operating Officer of Wausau Insurance. Mr. Barnes has also served on the board or committees for the Insurance Services Office, the Alliance of American Insurers, National Council on Compensation Insurance, and as a member of the Property and Casualty CEO Roundtable. Mr. Barnes received his Fellowship in the Casualty Actuarial Society in 1977. He serves as a board member of unaffiliated World Financial Capital Bank of Salt Lake City, Utah. His voluntary directorships include the James Cancer Hospital of Columbus, Ohio, Ohio Dominican University and the Self Insurance Board of the Ohio State University.
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William H. Bolinder
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William H. Bolinder has been a director since December 2001 and has been the Lead Director since November 2006. In June 2006, Mr. Bolinder retired as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Acadia Trust N.A., positions he had held since 2003. He had previously been a member of the Group Management Board for Zurich Financial Services Group. He was the head of the North America business division (excluding US Personal Lines) from 1994 to 2002, and the Latin America business division from 1996 to 2002, as well as the Corporate and Commercial Customer Division of Zurich Financial Services Group since 1998. In 1994, he was elected to the Group Executive Board at Zurich Financial Services Group's home office and became responsible for managing the Zurich Financial Services Group companies in the United States and Canada as well as Corporate/Industrial Insurance, Zurich International (Group) and Risk Engineering. Mr. Bolinder joined Zurich American Insurance Company, USA in 1986 as Chief Operating Officer and became Chief Executive Officer in 1987.
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Steven W. Carlsen
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Steven W. Carlsen has been a director since February 2006. Mr. Carlsen is President of Shadowbrook Advising Inc., a consulting firm providing advisory and analytical services to insurance and reinsurance companies as well as to private equity and hedge fund groups investing in these areas. Prior to retiring from Endurance and reactivating his consulting practice in 2006, Mr. Carlsen was a founding member of Endurance, helping to raise the initial capital with Mr. LeStrange in 2001. He served at various times as the Company's Chief Operating Officer, Chief Underwriting Officer and as President of its U.S. reinsurance subsidiary. Until June 1, 2008, Mr. Carlsen provided Endurance with underwriting and operating services on a part-time basis as a consultant. Mr. Carlsen began his career as a property facultative underwriter in 1979 and later as a treaty account executive for Swiss Reinsurance Company. He joined NAC Re in 1986, ultimately heading their Property and Miscellaneous Treaty Department (which included aviation, marine, surety and finite business). He managed NAC Re's retrocessions and was involved in the formation of their U.K. company. In 1994, Mr. Carlsen left NAC Re to join CAT Limited as their Chief Underwriter-North America and in 1997 was co-founder of CAT Limited's finite insurer, Enterprise Re. From 1999 until he joined the Company in 2001, Mr. Carlsen worked as a consultant, principally with three Morgan Stanley Private Equity insurance ventures and the Plymouth Rock Group. Mr. Carlsen is currently enrolled as a full-time student at Fordham University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Economics.
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Brendan R. O'Neill
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Brendan R. O'Neill has been a director since February 2005. Mr. O'Neill was Chief Executive Officer of ICI PLC, a specialty chemicals company, from 1998 to 2003. Prior to joining ICI PLC, Mr. O'Neill was managing director of Guinness Brewing Worldwide from 1993 to 1998, where he is credited with rebuilding the Guinness business and reestablishing its brand image on a global basis. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Mr. O'Neill held numerous finance roles early in his career at Ford Motor Company, BICC Ltd. and Midland Bank PLC (HSBC). Mr. O'Neill currently serves on the boards of directors of Tyco International Ltd., Informa Group PLC, Aegis Group PLC and Watson Wyatt Worldwide Inc.
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Richard C. Perry
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Richard C. Perry has been a director since December 2001. Mr. Perry founded Perry Capital in 1988 and since then the firm has grown to more than $14 billion under management. Prior to 1988, Mr. Perry worked in the equity arbitrage area of Goldman, Sachs & Co. He was also an adjunct associate professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University, where he taught a course in the finance department. He is a member of the board of directors of Sears Holdings Corporation, Capital Business Credit LLC and MedGroup Inversiones S.L. He currently serves as a member of the boards of trustees of the Allen Stevenson School, Milton Academy, Facing History and Ourselves, Harlem Children's Zone and the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves on the Undergraduate Executive Board of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
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William J. Raver
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William J. Raver has been a director since May 2006. From July 2006 through January 2008, Mr. Raver served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of the National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust ("NRRIT") where he led a twenty person staff, overseeing investment activity of the trust fund established by Federal legislation in 2001 to manage certain defined benefit retirement assets of the U.S. railway industry, then totaling $30 billion. From 1997 until he joined NRRIT in 2006, Mr. Raver was with Verizon Investment Management Corporation, most recently as Chief Operating Officer. In this role, he shared investment responsibility for $65 billion of Verizon retirement and savings plan assets and was the officer in charge of trust fund financial reporting and fiduciary functions. From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Raver was Senior Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, and Director of Research at Evaluation Associates, an investment consulting firm. His earlier career includes senior level positions in corporate treasury with Young & Rubicam, Cadbury Schweppes, Stauffer Chemical and Avon Products. Mr. Raver currently serves on a number of investment advisory boards.
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Robert A. Spass
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Robert A. Spass has been a director since July 2002. Mr. Spass is a Partner of Capital Z Partners, an investment firm he joined as a founding partner upon its formation in February 2007. He previously held similar positions at its predecessor firm, also named Capital Z Partners, which he joined as a founding partner in 1998. Prior to 1998, Mr. Spass was the Managing Partner and co-founder of Insurance Partners Advisors, L.P. Mr. Spass was also President and CEO of International Insurance Advisors, Inc., the management company of International Insurance Investors, L.P. Prior to joining International Insurance Investors, Mr. Spass was a Director of Investment Banking at Salomon Brothers with responsibility for corporate finance relationships with the insurance industry. He currently serves on the board of directors of Universal American Financial Corp. and Lancashire Holdings Limited.
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