WR Berkley Corporation
| WR Berkley Corporation | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US0844231029 |
| founding | 1967 |
| Seat | Greenwich , Connecticut , United States |
| management | William Robert Berkley (Chairman and CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 7,247 (2013) |
| sales | 6.4 billion US dollars (2013) |
| Branch | Insurance |
| Website | www.wrberkley.com |
The WR Berkley Corporation is an American insurance companies in the Fortune 500 .
After graduating from New York University (BS 1966), William R. Berkley was accepted into the MBA program at Harvard University (graduated in 1968). While still a student, he started an investment firm with $ 2,500 in start-up capital. In 1972 he took over the Houston General insurer.
WR Berkley Insurance Germany is a branch of the British WR Berkley Insurance (Europe) Limited.
The Stern School of Business donated a professorship to Berkley in 2002; The owner is the Nobel Prize winner Thomas J. Sargent .
Web links
- Delivering Results through Diversity and Decentralization - Video interview with William R. Berkley, March 3, 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ Our People
- ↑ a b 2013 Annual Report , accessed March 2, 2015
- ^ Andrew G. Simpson: WR Berkley: Still Smart, Successful and Smiling After 40 Years of Decisions - March 4, 2008
- ↑ http://www.wrblondon.com/germany/
- ↑ http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/thomas-sargent