W. R. Berkley Corporation (NYSE:WRB) today announced the
appointment of Robert L. McPherson as vice president. Mr. McPherson will
lead the corporate team responsible for providing technical expertise
and advice in designing and implementing predictive modeling at our
operating units. The appointment is effective immediately.
Mr. McPherson has nearly 30 years of experience in the property casualty
insurance industry, including over 15 years of modeling and research
experience. Prior to joining W. R. Berkley Corporation, he directed
various teams of data scientists and business analysts responsible for
predictive modeling, GIS analysis, data quality assessments, statistical
outlier detection, and other analytical processes at a large national
insurance company. He earned a B.S. in Business Administration,
Marketing from the University of Akron, an M.B.A. from the University of
Phoenix and a M.S. in Information Technology / Information Management
from the Harvard Extension School.
Founded in 1967, W. R. Berkley Corporation is an insurance holding
company that is among the largest commercial lines writers in the United
States and operates in three segments of the property casualty insurance
business: Insurance-Domestic, Insurance-International and
Reinsurance-Global.
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