Robert H. Benmosche, a complete outsider who lacked any insurance-industry experience, would be remembered as the chief executive who attempted to remake Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
Robert H. Benmosche was born on May 29th, 1944.
Benmosche spent his childhood in the bucolic Catskills town of Monticello, New York
Born: May 29, 1944
Robert H. Benmosche was born in Brooklyn, New York in the United States.
1998-, chairman and CEO.
1997-2004, president
Benmosche took MetLife public in April 2000, adding about $2.5 billion in capital to the former mutual insurer.
Robert H. Benmosche is the current CEO of AIG.
Education: Alfred University, BS, 1966.
1979-1982, vice president of technology
Benmosche began his career with Arthur D. Little and Information Science as a consultant. In the mid-1970s he moved to Chase Manhattan Bank, where he became a vice president of technology.
After earning his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Alfred University in 1966, Benmosche served for two years as an army lieutenant. After a tour of duty in Vietnam, he spent about a year in Korea in the U.S. Signal Corps