Jay S. Fishman is the 2010 Star of Hope Honoree for JDRF’s North Central Connecticut and Western Massachusetts Chapter’s 2010 Promise Ball.
Jay S. Fishman, 57, is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Travelers Companies, Inc., a Fortune 100 company with assets in excess of $100 billion and revenues in excess of $25 billion. Travelers, which offers a wide range of property and casualty insurance products and services to businesses, organizations and individuals in the United States and selected international markets, was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average in June 2009.
Also in 2009, Mr. Fishman founded the Travelers Institute as a means of participating in public policy dialogue on matters of interest to the property casualty insurance sector, as well as the financial services industry more broadly. A key Institute initiative has been to propose a comprehensive plan to improve availability and affordability of coastal wind zone insurance. Mr. Fishman has authored two editorials on the topic, one published in the Wall Street Journal and the other in the Miami Herald.
Mr. Fishman first became associated with Travelers when he was named the insurer's Chief Financial Officer in 1993, upon the company's acquisition by Primerica Corp., where he served as an executive. Primerica later became Citigroup.
He was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Travelers in 1998 and Chairman in 2000. From early 2000 until October 2001, Mr. Fishman also served in a number of Citigroup senior positions.
He joined The St. Paul Companies in October 2001 as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. In April 2004, St. Paul Companies merged with Travelers Property Casualty Corp., which had since been divested by Citigroup. Mr. Fishman was named President and Chief Executive Officer of the merged company in April of 2004, and in 2005 was also named Chairman.
Mr. Fishman is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania, having graduated with a bachelor's degree in Economics, magna cum laude, in 1974 and a master's degree in Accounting from the Wharton School, also in 1974. At the University of Pennsylvania, he is a member of the Board of Trustees, the Board of Overseers of the Graduate School of Education and the Industry Advisory Board of the Financial Institutions Center for The Wharton School. He serves on the Board of Directors of the National Academy Foundation. Also, he is an active member of The Business Council, a Vice Chairman of the Kennedy Center Corporate Fund Board in Washington D.C., and a past Chairman of the American Insurance Association.
Mr. Fishman and his wife, Randy, have two children.
Past Honorees
| 2009 |
Thomas O. Barnes and Larry Litton |
| 2008 |
Stephen N. Finger |
| 2007 |
John Kim |
| 2006 |
Charles Shivery |
| 2005 |
Robert Patricelli |
| 2004 |
The Esposito Family |
| 2002 |
Senator Christopher Dodd |
| 2001 |
Samuel Bailey, Jr. |
| 2000 |
Anthony Autorino |
| 1999 |
Allen Weintraub |
| 1998 |
Eileen Kraus |
| 1997 |
Michael Konover |
| 1996 |
Robert Samuels |
| 1995 |
Richard Blumenthal |
| 1994 |
Mark Abrahms |
| 1990 |
David Chase |
