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President for the National Accounts Group’s property-casualty business in 1985 and subsequently
assumed the responsibility of Chairman of Commercial Lines in 1990.
William H. Heyman, 60, has been Chief Investment Officer of the Company since the Merger and
Vice Chairman since May 2005. Prior to May 2005, he was Executive Vice President and Chief
Investment Officer of the Company since the Merger. Prior to the Merger, he held those same offices
with SPC since he joined SPC in May 2002. Mr. Heyman held various executive positions with
Citigroup from 1995 through 2002, including the position of chairman of Citigroup Investments from
2000 to 2002. Prior to joining Citigroup in 1995, Mr. Heyman was, successively: a managing director of
Salomon Brothers; Director of the Division of Market Regulation of the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission; and a managing director of Smith Barney.
Alan D. Schnitzer, 43, has been Vice Chairman and Chief Legal Officer since joining the Company
in April 2007 and Executive Vice President—Financial, Professional and International Insurance since
May 2008. Prior to that time, he was a partner at the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP,
where he advised corporate clients on a variety of transactions and general corporate law matters.
Mr. Schnitzer joined Simpson Thacher in 1991.
Brian W. MacLean, 55, has been Chief Operating Officer since May 2005 and President since June
2008. Prior to that, he had been Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer since May 2005.
Prior to that, he had been Co-Chief Operating Officer of the Company since February 1, 2005. Before
that, he was Executive Vice President, Claim Services for the Company, and prior thereto, for TPC.
Prior to that, Mr. MacLean served as President of Select Accounts for TIGHI from July 1999 to
January 2002. He also served as Chief Financial Officer of Claim Services from March 1993 to June
1996. From June 1996 to July 1999, Mr. MacLean was Chief Financial Officer for Commercial Lines.
He joined TIGHI in 1988.
Andy F. Bessette, 55, has been Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of the
Company since the Merger, and prior to that, he held the same offices with SPC since joining SPC in
January 2002. Before that, he was Vice President of Corporate Real Estate and Services for TPC. From
1980 to December 2001, Mr. Bessette held a number of management positions at TIGHI.
Kenneth F. Spence, III, 53, has been Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the
Company since January 2005. From August 2004 to January 2005, he was Senior Vice President and
General Counsel. Prior to that, Mr. Spence served in several leadership positions in the Company’s
Legal Services group, and from April 1998 until the Merger, in SPC’s Legal Services Group.
Mr. Spence joined SPC in April 1998, upon SPC’s merger with USF&G Corporation, where he had
served as legal counsel.
Doreen Spadorcia, 51, has been Executive Vice President—Claim Services, since March 2, 2005.
Prior to that, she was President and Chief Executive Officer of Bond operations for the Company since
the Merger and, before that, for TPC since June 2002. From 1994 to May 2002, she managed the TPC
Bond claim operation and served as General Counsel of that business unit. She joined TIGHI in 1986
as a claim attorney.
Joseph P. Lacher, Jr., 39, has been Executive Vice President—Personal Insurance and Select
Accounts for the Company since January 2005, and prior to that, he had been Senior Vice President of
the Company in charge of those operations. Prior to the Merger, he was Executive Vice President—
Personal for TPC. Before that, he was Senior Vice President of Product & Actuarial for TPC’s Personal
insurance operations since April 2001. Mr. Lacher was Senior Vice President of Personal Strategic
Distribution for TIGHI from April 1999 to April 2001, and from April 1996 to April 1999, he was
Chief Financial Officer of Select Accounts. Mr. Lacher joined TIGHI in 1991.
John J. Albano, 59, has been Executive Vice President of the Company since November 2005, and
he is currently Executive Vice President—Business Insurance. In 1998, he assumed the position of
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