Saying Goodbye to Ed Glenn

With the sale of the company to W.R. Berkley, you’ll be leaving us after almost 20 years. There are folks at CGH Insurance that have been around since the beginning, but others haven’t been around for nearly as long who don’t really know the history or how you got involved. We thought before saying goodbye, you could tell us a little bit about your role and about you, too.

When did you get started working in insurance?
Ed Glenn: I trace that back to when I entered graduate school at the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. I started graduate school there in fall of 1969 after serving 3 years in the Navy. As things happen, I was offered the chance to teach at Wharton after a professor left the school to become Pennsylvania’s Insurance Commissioner. His leaving had left the school shorthanded, so they asked me to teach. After a few years of teaching, I decided the academic world and teaching weren’t for me. I left Wharton and worked with the American Institute for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters (CPCU) helping to prepare course materials for the CPCU exams. Then, I moved south in 1979. (I was originally from Alabama, and I graduated from the University of Alabama.) I have been in the agency and insurance business ever since.

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