Mike Foley

CEO North America Commercial

1962, US Citizen

Mike Foley is a member of the Group Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) North America Commercial of Zurich Financial Services (Zurich). Mr. Foley joined Zurich in September 2006 as Chief Operating Officer of its North America Commercial business division. In January 2008 he assumed his current role as CEO North America Commercial.

In 1989 Mr. Foley joined the Deepath Group investment banking firm in Lake Forest, Illinois, as an associate and became vice president responsible for managing the portfolio of equity investments in various acquired businesses. In 1993 he joined Electrocal, Inc in Connecticut as president, and three years later moved to McKinsey & Company in Chicago as a principal, becoming leader of its North American property & casualty insurance practice.

Mr. Foley graduated in math and economics from Fairfield University,
Connecticut. He joined the financial management training program of Armtek Cooperation, Connecticut, in 1984, and later gained am MBA in marketing and finance from the JL Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.