Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> September 3, 2001

Richard Barasch – Universal American Financial Corporation (uhco)

RICHARD A. BARASCH is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Universal American Financial Corp., a publicly traded company that operates life and health insurance companies and administrative services companies focused on the senior market. Under Mr. Barasch's leadership, Universal American has grown to revenues in excess of $750 million, assets of $1.7 billion and a market capitalization in excess of $500 million. Mr. Barasch is past Chairman of the Life Insurance Council of New York, Chairman of The Friends of the Bronx Leadership Academy, Chairman of the 10th and 15th Columbia Law School reunion and a Director of The Center For Arts Education and Horace Mann Summer on the Hill. Mr. Barasch, a native New Yorker, is a graduate of Swarthmore College (1976) and Columbia University Law School (1979) where he was a member of the Law Review. Profile
TWST: Could we begin with an historical sketch and an overview of

Universal American Financial Corp.?

Mr. Barasch: Universal American is an insurance and administrative

services company that