Talk:Evan G. Greenberg

message: Hello editors, this is Brooke, an employee of Chubb Limited here to post my first edit request to Evan Greenberg's article. I understand that disclosing my COI is important, so I've set up my user page to disclose that information. Before getting into my request, I also wanted to acknowledge that there is a lot of current media coverage regarding Chubb in relation to the appeal bond issued for Donald Trump, and I intend to address this in a later request but didn't want to propose any language immediately while this coverage evolves. There is some text about this on the Chubb Limited Wikipedia page, however, it does include some details that are inaccurate and unsubstantiated, so I may also reach out to editors on that Talk page later. 
For now, I'd like to focus on a simple update. I've drafted a new sentence for the Early life and education section, which would ideally be placed as the first sentence of the second paragraph, just before the sentence that explains where he attended college. Specifically, I utilized a Wall Street Journal article and a Bloomberg article to add that Mr. Greenberg graduated high school at 17, then worked a few odd jobs including bartending and cooking in a nursing home. I've slotted this as well as a small change to the following sentence, into the section draft below, which can be copy and pasted over the existing section. Please read below:
 
 
 
 ==Early life and education==
Greenberg is the son of Corinne Phyllis Zuckerman and Maurice R. Greenberg, the former chairman and CEO of American International Group (AIG). He is also the younger brother of the former CEO of Marsh & McLennan, Jeffrey W. Greenberg. He is Jewish.
 
After graduating high school at 17, Greenberg traveled the country working odd jobs, including cooking at a nursing home and bartending. He later attended New York University and the College of Insurance (now part of St. John's University, New York) but did not graduate from either.
 
 
 
If there are any questions about the language I've drafted or the sources I've used, please do let me know and I'll be standing by to respond. Thank you so much! Brooke at Chubb (talk) 14:48, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Encoded   Talk 💬 19:28, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you so much for quickly implementing that addition Encoded. If you're interested in evaluating another edit request on this article, I'm just about to post another edit request to try and improve this page. Again, thanks so much for your time. Brooke at Chubb (talk) 16:35, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early life and education edit request 

message: I believe this request may be too much for editors to review and implement in one go. I'm leaving this here, but please see my fresh request below. Brooke at Chubb (talk) 13:52, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Career section edit request 

message: ===Early career and AIG===
In 1975, Greenberg started working in insurance, initially working for New Hampshire Insurance Co. in its automobile policies department. He began working for AIG later that year as an underwriter. During the 25 years he worked for AIG, Greenberg held a number of senior management positions. He ran AIG's Japan and Korea operations from 1991 to 1994. He then oversaw all international property-casualty operations from AIG's New York offices. Greenberg was named president and COO in 1997 and was considered the heir apparent to take over as CEO of AIG. 
 
Despite Greenberg being in line to take over the company, he left his position as president in September 2000. He spent a year away from work to spend time with his family. After seeing the impact of the September 11 attacks on the insurance industry, with insurers affected by large claims, Greenberg decided to take the opportunity to accept then-ACE CEO Brian Duperreault's offer to join ACE.
 
===ACE / Chubb===
Greenberg joined ACE in November 2001 to lead the company's overseas unit. In June 2003, he was promoted to president and chief operating officer, and in May 2004, was named CEO. In May 2007, he was elected Chairman of ACE.
 
Following his promotion to CEO, Greenberg grew the company both through expansion of existing operations and through a strategy of acquisitions, acquiring 15 companies by 2015. In July 2015, Greenberg led a deal for ACE to acquire the insurance company Chubb for $28.3 billion, which was the largest merger deal in property and casualty insurance history. Shortly prior to the deal, he broke his ankle in a horse riding accident, and he worked on the merger while recovering. When the deal became official in January 2016, ACE adopted the Chubb name globally and Greenberg became chairman and CEO of Chubb. By 2021, Greenberg was credited in the media for having grown Chubb to the second-largest publicly listed insurance company in the U.S. and the largest non-injury insurer in the U.S. based on market value. As part of the acquisition plan to continue growing Chubb, he led an attempted acquisition bid for The Hartford in 2021. After making three offers that were each declined, he stated that Chubb would not continue to pursue the acquisition.
 
Following the merger, Greenberg has sought to grow Chubb's presence in Asia. He led the company's push to increase its holdings in Huatai Insurance, a China-based insurance company, by pursuing a regulatory change in China that would allow Chubb to become Huatai's majority owner. Officials passed the change in 2019 and Chubb gained majority ownership of Huatai in 2022. In 2021, he led the company's acquisition of Cigna Group's Asian businesses that focused on health and accident insurance.
===Board roles and advocacy===
In the 2008 financial crisis, Greenberg opposed taxpayer-funded bailouts for the insurance industry. He gave a statement on behalf of the American Insurance Association as its then-chairman, noting that most of the association's members were not in favor of including property and casualty insurers in the list of companies able to make use of available federal bailout funds.
 
In February 2011, Greenberg was named to the board of directors at The Coca-Cola Company. He stepped down from the board position to focus on his role at Chubb in January 2016.
 
Greenberg has criticized protectionist trade policies and spoken in favor of policies that promote global trade and U.S. interests, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement.
 
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Greenberg called for a public-private partnership for pandemic risk, saying such a program would lessen the financial blow of a future pandemic. He testified at a July 2021 hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, to advocate for such a program.
 
He has also advocated for better business and political relationships between the U.S. and China. He is a member and former chairman of the US-China Business Council.
 
In March 2024, Greenberg defended Chubb's decision to provide former President Donald Trump a $91.6 million appeal bond for the civil case E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump in a letter to Chubb investors. He stated that the company doesn't "take sides" and that Chubb is "no way supporting the defendant", as the bond assures that E. Jean Carroll will be paid if the judgment of the case is upheld. 
 
As of March 2024, he serves as a member of the board of trustees for the Asia Society, National Geographic Society, and Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is the chairman of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, is on the Advisory Committee of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
 
 
 
I understand that this is a huge amount of content to review, so whichever editor evaluates this request, thank you so much. I will be standing by for any questions that come up. Brooke at Chubb (talk) 20:56, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Career

message: In the 2008 financial crisis, Greenberg opposed taxpayer-funded bailouts for the insurance industry. He gave a statement on behalf of the American Insurance Association as its then-chairman, noting that most of the association's members were not in favor of including property and casualty insurers in the list of companies able to make use of available federal bailout funds.
 
In February 2011, Greenberg was named to the board of directors at The Coca-Cola Company. He stepped down from the board position to focus on his role at Chubb in January 2016.
 
Greenberg has criticized protectionist trade policies and spoken in favor of policies that promote global trade and U.S. interests, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement.
 
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Greenberg called for a public-private partnership for pandemic risk, saying such a program would lessen the financial blow of a future pandemic. He testified at a July 2021 hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, to advocate for such a program.
 
He has also advocated for better business and political relationships between the U.S. and China. He is a member and former chairman of the US-China Business Council.
 
In March 2024, Greenberg defended Chubb's decision to provide former President Donald Trump a $91.6 million appeal bond for the civil case E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump in a letter to Chubb investors. He stated that the company doesn't "take sides" and that Chubb is "no way supporting the defendant", as the bond assures that E. Jean Carroll will be paid if the judgment of the case is upheld. 
 
As of March 2024, he serves as a member of the board of trustees for the Asia Society, National Geographic Society, and Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is the chairman of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, is on the Advisory Committee of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
 
 
 
I understand that this is a huge amount of content to review, so whichever editor evaluates this request, thank you so much. I will be standing by for any questions that come up. Brooke at Chubb (talk) 20:56, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Board roles and advocacy

message: I'm back with another shorter Career section request, focusing on the next phase of Evan's career. This next piece would make the following changes to the Career section:
#Add information regarding the acquisition of Chubb cited to a New York Times piece and a Financial Times piece that noted the deal was the largest merger deal in property and casualty insurance history. 
#Add that he led Chubb to become the second-largest publicly listed insurance company in the United States. 
#Add details of his attempts to acquire The Hartford.
#Add mention of his business dealings in Asia, including his role in Chubb's acquisition of Huatai Insurance to a WSJ China article and how he led the company's acquisition of Cigna Group's Asian businesses.
The proposed draft in the box below would only replace the content beginning with the sentence that reads "He became CEO of ACE in 2004," along with the rest of that paragraph. (This does trim the sentences about the financial crisis and Coca-Cola role, I will have updated references and details for that in my next request.) If editors are ok with it, this could become a subsection, and I have some suggestions for how to separate the Career under different subheadings that I can share later.
Please read below:
Greenberg joined ACE in November 2001 to lead the company's overseas unit. In June 2003, he was promoted to president and chief operating officer, and in May 2004, was named CEO. In May 2007, he was elected Chairman of ACE.
Following his promotion to CEO, Greenberg grew the company both through expansion of existing operations and through a strategy of acquisitions, acquiring 15 companies by 2015. In July 2015, Greenberg led a deal for ACE to acquire the insurance company Chubb for $28.3 billion, which was the largest merger deal in property and casualty insurance history. Shortly prior to the deal, he broke his ankle in a horse riding accident, and he worked on the merger while recovering. When the deal became official in January 2016, ACE adopted the Chubb name globally and Greenberg became chairman and CEO of Chubb. By 2021, Greenberg was credited in the media for having grown Chubb to the second-largest publicly listed insurance company in the U.S. and the largest non-injury insurer in the U.S. based on market value. As part of the acquisition plan to continue growing Chubb, he led an attempted acquisition bid for The Hartford in 2021. After making three offers that were each declined, he stated that Chubb would not continue to pursue the acquisition.
Following the merger, Greenberg has sought to grow Chubb's presence in Asia. He led the company's push to increase its holdings in Huatai Insurance, a China-based insurance company, by pursuing a regulatory change in China that would allow Chubb to become Huatai's majority owner. Officials passed the change in 2019 and Chubb gained majority ownership of Huatai in 2022. In 2021, he led the company's acquisition of Cigna Group's Asian businesses that focused on health and accident insurance.
I've updated the formatting to match Drmies's extremely helpful hand in order to keep the page clean. I noticed that the Washington Post reference (Starkman) has two different formats on the page, I copied the formatting from the Career section, but there may still be duplication from that reference since the formatting of the reference in Early life is different. Thank you for taking the time to read, and if anybody has questions I'll be around to reply. Brooke at Chubb (talk) 19:54, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you once again to Drmies for evaluating my request and implementing the changes. I've now closed that edit request. If you have interest in evaluating my next request, I've posted it below. Brooke at Chubb (talk) 18:00, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Career section: ACE/Chubb request 

message: I'm back once again with another Career section request, focusing on Evan's board roles and advocacy. This next piece would replace the current final sentence and make the following changes to the Career section:
#Added a two-sentence paragraph about Evan's stance against taxpayer-funded bailouts during the 2008 crisis, cited to a Philadelphia Inquirer and Business Insurance. (This was previously on the page but not fully explained and the references were confusing.)
#Added that Evan stepped down from his role as the board of directors for Coca-Cola in Jan. 2016.
#Added a paragraph on  Evan's trade policy positions, specifically his comments criticizing protectionist trade policies, cited to pieces from Bloomberg and Carrier Management.
#Added a paragraph on his calls for a public-private partnership for pandemic risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. Added new citations to CNBC and Insurance Business Magazine.
# Added another new paragraph that details Chubb's decision to provide Donald Trump with a $91.6 million appeal bond for his civil case, noting that Evan was appointed by Trump to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations back in 2018, serving until March 2023 when he stepped down.
#Introduced one final paragraph detailing his most notable board roles including Asia Society, National Geographic Society,  Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Peterson Institute for International Economics, as well as being a chairman of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, and serving on the  Advisory Committee of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management.
Please read below:
In the 2008 financial crisis, Greenberg opposed taxpayer-funded bailouts for the insurance industry. He gave a statement on behalf of the American Insurance Association as its then-chairman, noting that most of the association's members were not in favor of including property and casualty insurers in the list of companies able to make use of available federal bailout funds.
In February 2011, Greenberg was named to the board of directors at The Coca-Cola Company. He stepped down from the board position to focus on his role at Chubb in January 2016.
Greenberg has criticized protectionist trade policies and spoken in favor of policies that promote global trade and U.S. interests, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Greenberg called for a public-private partnership for pandemic risk, saying such a program would lessen the financial blow of a future pandemic. He testified at a July 2021 hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, to advocate for such a program.
He has also advocated for better business and political relationships between the U.S. and China. He is a member and former chairman of the US-China Business Council.
In March 2024, Greenberg defended Chubb's decision to provide former President Donald Trump a $91.6 million appeal bond for the civil case E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump in a letter to Chubb investors claiming the company doesn't "take sides." Greenberg was appointed by Trump to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations in 2018, serving on the committee from then into the Joe Biden presidency, stepping down in March 2023.
 
As of March 2024, he serves as a member of the board of trustees for the Asia Society, National Geographic Society, and Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is the chairman of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, is on the Advisory Committee of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
Again, I've updated the formatting to match Drmies's suggestion to keep the page clean. If editors are happy with making this addition, the resulting Career section will be longer than it was originally. To make it easier to read, I suggest adding subsection headings:
*For the first two paragraphs: "Early career and AIG"
*For the next three paragraphs, starting "Greenberg joined ACE in November 2001": "ACE / Chubb"
*For the remaining paragraphs: "Board roles and advocacy"
These are just suggestions that fit best with what is covered in the section, so editors might have other thoughts, too. I'll be around to reply if editors have questions. Brooke at Chubb (talk) 18:03, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Jumping back into this thread to ping a few editors who have been previously active on this article: Encoded, Drmies, and Ser Amantio di Nicolao. Again, if anybody has questions about the request, let me know and I'll be here to answer quickly. Thank you so much. Brooke at Chubb (talk) 16:37, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Brooke at Chubb, I put your content in, with a slightly different heading, BUT I did not insert your last paragraph. I left the National Committee and the Business Council sentence as it was, because it seems to me that those two show an inherent importance. I am not going to put in the others that you suggested, because they have primary sourcing and because it seems to me that those things, like the NatGeo board, are just the regular things that rich and powerful people get asked to do--basically, it's resume stuff, in my opinion. You are welcome to find a second opinion, but this is the kind of content that I routinely remove from such articles. Thanks, say hi to the boss, and take care--and if you want to fly me out to Barbados to talk things over, you know where to send the ticket. The last two weeks of May would be fine. Drmies (talk) 17:15, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you so much for taking the time here to implement this, as well as adding in the headings. I understand the pushback on listing all the board roles. However, do you believe it’s reasonable to add them into the infobox, or at least a few of them? Specifically: the National Committee on United States-China Relations, Peterson Institute for International Economics, National Geographic Society and Center for Strategic and International Studies? Brooke at Chubb (talk) 19:35, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't believe anything should be in the infobox that isn't in the article... Drmies (talk) 21:13, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Career section: Board roles and advocacy request 

message: Hello, I'm back to post another edit request; this time, it's a relatively short one. I'd like to add that Berkshire Hathaway announced the company purchased 26 million shares of Chubb, worth $6.7 billion. This is relevant to add to Mr. Greenberg's article as he is chairman and CEO of the company.
 
Please read below:
 
In May 2024, Berkshire Hathaway confirmed that the firm had purchased 26 million shares of Chubb stock, worth $6.7 billion.
 
 
Ideally, this sentence would be added at the end of the ACE/Chubb subsection. Editors who have questions about this request, please comment on this post, and I'll be ready to respond. Thank you so much. Brooke at Chubb (talk) 14:13, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Given the recent news coverage, I wanted to come back here and ping some editors who might be interested in evaluating this request: Drmies, Encoded, Losipov, and Amigao. Let me know if there are questions and thank you. Brooke at Chubb (talk) 18:22, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

text: Encoded  Talk 💬 06:58, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you so much Encoded for evaluating the request and implementing those changes. Brooke at Chubb (talk) 12:46, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Berkshire Hathaway investment request