Donna Galer began her career in financial services with Chase Manhattan Bank (now JP Morgan Chase). Then, after almost a decade at Crum and Forster Insurance Company, she joined Zurich Insurance. At Zurich, she held a number of executive positions including Regional Manager for Zurich North America based in Zurich, Switzerland and Chief Administrative Officer for world-wide general insurance based in New York. She has served on the boards of a number of insurance and community non-profit organizations and has published extensively on risk management, strategy and insurance. She was recognized as one of the "Top 100 Women in Insurance" by Business Insurance in 2000. Ms. Galer holds an MA from Rutgers University and a BA from Wagner College in addition to having attended executive education classes at Northwestern's Kellogg School and IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland.
