Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> January 5, 2009
LEN GOLDBERG has served as Chief Executive Officer and Director of Greenlight
Capital Re, Ltd., since August 2005. Mr. Goldberg has more than 20 years of
insurance and reinsurance experience. He worked with the Alea Group, a
reinsurance company, from August 2000 to August 2004, including serving as Chief
Executive Officer of Alea North America Insurance Company and Alea North America
Specialty Insurance Company from March 2002 to August 2004. Prior to working
with the Alea Group, Mr. Goldberg served as Chief Actuary and Senior Vice
President-Financial Products of Custom Risk Solutions, a managing general
agency, from April 1999 to August 2000. From May 1995 to December 1998, Mr.
Goldberg provided various actuarial services to Zurich Group, including acting
as Chief Actuary of Zurich Re London. Mr. Goldberg received his BA in
Mathematics from Rutgers University in 1984 and an MBA, Finance Concentration,
from Rutgers Executive MBA program in 1993. He is a Fellow of the Casualty
Actuarial Society and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with a brief historical sketch of the company and a picture of the things that you are doing at the present time?
Mr. Goldberg: Greenlight Re was formed in 2004 in the