
William R Berkley Jr
CEO of W. R. Berkley Corporation
Education
- MBA - Harvard Business School
Overview
William Robert Berkley Jr is a CEO, President & Director of W. R. Berkley Corporati, Inc.(WRB)
and the chairman of the New York University Board of Trustees. His net worth is $4.4 billion and he is ranked 285th on the Forbes 400.
Career :
In 1967, he founded W. R. Berkley Corporation. In November 1973, when the company became a public company via an initial public offering, he owned 23.8% of the company. In 2015, he left the CEO position to become Executive Chairman. To which his son Rob Berkley Jr. took over as CEO.
Berkley has served as chairman of board at New York University, his alma mater, since 2014.
Early Life
Berkley grew up 1946 in North Jersey, the middle child of three boys. When he was 11 years old, his father was killed in an airplane crash. He started investing in the stock market at age 12 with money he made from lawn mowing.
Berkley graduated from the New York University Stern School of Business with an undergraduate degree in 1966. He received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1968. While at Harvard, he ran a $2 million mutual fund out of an apartment on the Harvard campus with a classmate, Paul Dean.
Career
- W. R. Berkley Corporation - CEO