Maurice R. GreenbergMr. Maurice R. Greenberg is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of C.V. Starr & Co., Inc. (C.V. Starr). He joined C.V. Starr & Co., Inc. as Vice President in 1960 and was given the additional responsibilities of President of American Home Assurance Company in 1962. He was elected Director of C.V. Starr & Co., Inc. in 1965, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 1968 and continues in that role. Mr. Greenberg is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Managing Director of Starr International Company, Inc., and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Starr International USA, Inc. (Starr International USA). C.V. Starr and Starr International USA are collectively known as Starr Companies.
Mr. Greenberg retired as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American International Group, Inc. (AIG) in March 2005, after serving as Chief Executive Officer from 1967 until March 2005. Under his leadership AIG became the largest insurance company in the world and generated unprecedented value for AIG shareholders. During the nearly 40 years of his leadership, AIG's market value grew from $300 million to $l80 billion. AIG was created by C.V. Starr & Co., Inc.
Mr. Greenberg is Chairman of The Starr Foundation. He oversees the disbursement of major financial support to academic, medical, cultural, and public policy institutions.
In 1990, Mr. Greenberg was appointed by Mr. Zhu Rongji, then Mayor of Shanghai, to be the first Chairman of the International Business Leaders Advisory Council for the Mayor of Shanghai. In 1994, Mr. Greenberg was appointed Senior Economic Advisor to the Beijing Municipal Government. He was awarded “Honorary Citizen of Shanghai†in 1997. He is a Member of the Advisory Board of the Tsinghua School of Economics and Management, a Member of the International Advisory Council of the China Development Research Foundation and China Development Bank.
Mr. Greenberg served in the U. S. Army in Europe during World War II and in the Korean conflict, rising to the rank of Captain. He is a recipient of the Bronze Star.
Mr. Greenberg received his pre-law certificate from the University of Miami and an LL.B from New York Law School in 1950. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1953. He has been granted honorary degrees from a number of institutions, including New York Law School, Brown University, Middlebury College, The Rockefeller University and he is a Life Trustee of New York University.
He serves on the President™ Council on International Activities of Yale University. He is the founding Chairman of the U.S.-Philippine Business Committee. Mr. Greenberg is Honorary Vice Chairman and Director of the Council on Foreign Relations, former Chairman and current member of U.S.-Korea Business Council, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and member of the Executive Committee of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, a member of the U.S. China Business Council and the Business Roundtable. Mr. Greenberg is Chairman of the Center for the National Interest.
Mr. Greenberg is Board Member and Chairman Emeritus of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and the New York-Presbyterian Hospital Foundation, Inc. He serves as a member of the Board of Overseers of the Weill Medical School of Cornell University, is a Trustee Emeritus of The Rockefeller University, a Life Trustee of New York University, and a Trustee of The Manhattan Institute. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Rescue Committee and is active in a number of other civic and charitable organizations.
Mr. Greenberg is married and has four children.
Edward E. Matthews Mr. Edward E. Matthews is a Director and the President of C. V. Starr. He has served as an officer and Director of C. V. Starr since 1973. Mr. Matthews is also a Director and Vice Chairman of Starr International USA, Inc. He is also a Director of Starr Indemnity & Liability Company. Mr. Matthews joined Morgan Stanley & Co. in 1957, where he became a partner in 1967, and subsequently, a Managing Director when the firm was incorporated in 1970. In 1973, he joined AIG as Vice President â€" Finance and Director. In 2002, Mr. Matthews retired from AIG as Senior Vice Chairman â€" Investment and Financial Services.
Mr. Matthews serves as Vice Chairman of Princeton Health Care System and as a Trustee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Princeton Day School. He is a Trustee Emeritus of Princeton University, where he served from 1998 to 2002 as Chairman of Princeton Investment Company, managing Princeton University's $12 billion endowment. He is also Trustee Emeritus of McCarter Theatre Company, a leading regional performing arts center where he served as President of the Board of Trustees from 1981 to 1988.
Mr. Matthews received an A.B. degree from Princeton University in 1953 and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard University in 1957.
Howard I. SmithMr. Howard I. Smith is a Director and the Vice Chairman Finance of C. V. Starr, a member of Starr Companies. Previously, Mr. Smith was Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of AIG, where he was responsible for AIG's Treasury, Investor Relations, Credit & Market Risk Management functions, in addition to the Comptroller's Department. Prior to joining AIG, he spent 19 years with Coopers & Lybrand and was the partner in charge of the firm's New York office insurance practice.
Mr. Smith earned his B.B.A. degree in accounting from the City College of New York in 1965. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the New York Society of Certified Public Accountants and was one of the North American representatives on the Insurance Working Group of the International Accounting Standards Board. Mr. Smith is Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Weissman Center for International Business of Baruch College.
Bertil LundqvistMr. Bertil P. Lundqvist is a Director and the General Counsel and Executive Vice President of the Starr Companies. From 1991 to 2006, Mr. Lundqvist was a partner at the New York law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where he was responsible for international corporate transactions, insurance management and restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions. Further aspects of his private practice included representation of issuers and underwriters in insurance company public and private financings, restructurings, acquisitions, and other facets of insurance business.
From 1991 to 1995, Mr. Lundqvist served as Outside General Counsel to a major insurance company. He advised on the management team to structure and implement a major restructuring of the company. The restructuring included multiple public and private financings, internal management restructuring, and rationalization of the company's litigation management. From 1973 to 1991 Mr. Lundqvist was an attorney with Mannheimer & Swartling, a Swedish law firm, in which he became partner in 1978. He was in charge of his law firm's offices in Stockholm and New York and was responsible for corporate transactions.
He worked on United States, Swedish and international acquisitions, joint ventures, turnkey projects, corporate finance, equipment leasing, technology transfer and general corporate advice. Mr. Lundqvist received his LL.B. in 1970 from the University of Lund, Sweden.
Mr. Lundqvist is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a council member of The Brookings Institution.
Lawrence Scott GreenbergMr. Lawrence Scott Greenberg is a Director and Executive Vice President of C. V. Starr and is the Managing Director of private equity investments. Mr. Greenberg started his career at Bankers Trust and has over twenty years of private equity experience.
Mr. Greenberg received a degree in economics from New York University and a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.
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The shared history of Starr Companies can be traced back to December 1919, when Cornelius Vander Starr founded an insurance agency in Shanghai, China.
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