Dean R. O'Hare

Dean R. O'Hare
Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Chubb Corporation
Director since 2005

O'Hare, of Far Hills, New Jersey, joined Chubb in 1963 as an underwriting trainee and was named an officer of the corporation in 1972, chief financial officer in 1980, president in1986, and chairman and chief executive officer in 1988 where he served until his retirement in 2002.

He is the chairman of the board of SeaPass and a director of DFA Capital Management and Proudfoot Consulting.

O’Hare is chairman of the Partnership for New Jersey: A coalition of leaders of the state's major corporations in association with nonprofit institutions and smaller businesses committed to act in partnership with government and the independent sector to make New Jersey a better place to live and work.

He has been a director of HJ Heinz Company since 2000. O’Hare has been a director of the Fluor Corporation since 1997 and is presently chairman of the Audit Committee of the board. One of the world's largest publicly owned engineering, procurement, construction, and maintenance services organizations, Fluor’s global clients include those in the oil and gas industry.

A leading voice on international trade issues, O’Hare is vice-chairman of the United States Council for International Business and has served as a member of the President’s Trade Advisory Committee, chairman of the U.S. Coalition of Service Industries, member and immediate past chairman of the U.S. - India Council, member of the Global Business Dialogue on Electronic Commerce, and a financial governor of the World Economic Forum (Davos).

Active in philanthropic organizations, O’Hare is co-chairman for the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York; a trustee and chairman of the Financial Committee at St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark, New Jersey; a trustee of the University of Dublin in Ireland, and a trustee of the Intrepid Museum in New York.

O'Hare received a B.S. in Financial Management from New York University in 1963 and an M.B.A. from the Pace University Graduate School of Business Administration in 1969.