Our Leadership

Chief Executive Officer since December 2021 and President since April 2021, was Executive Vice President from March 2012 to April 2021 and consultant to Alleghany from September 2011 to March 2012. Mr. Brandon was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Re Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., from 2001 to 2008. Mr. Brandon is a graduate of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Executive Vice President since April 2021 and Chief Financial Officer since July 2019, was Senior Vice President from July 2019 to April 2021, Chief Risk Officer from October 2014 to January 2021 and Vice President – Finance from March 2014 to June 2019. From May 2013 to February 2014, Ms. Jacobs was Vice President, Global Revenue at Gerson Lehrman Group. Prior to that, Ms. Jacobs was a Vice President at the Investment Banking division of Deutsche Bank Securities in the Financial Institutions Group, where she was employed since 2008. Previously, from 2003 to 2006, Ms. Jacobs was employed by DaimlerChrysler Financial Services in Germany. Ms. Jacobs is a graduate of Wesleyan University and New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Executive Vice President (from April 2023), General Counsel (from July 2009) and Secretary (from January 2011), was Senior Vice President from January 2012 and Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary from March 2002. Prior to that, Mr. Dalrymple was in-house counsel at Everest Broadband Networks and Interliant, Inc. From 1996 to 2000, Mr. Dalrymple was an associate in the law firm of Dewey Ballantine LLP. He is a member of the American Bar Association and a graduate of Colgate University and Cornell University Law School.

Vice President – Controller since January 2022, was Assistant Vice President – Accounting from April 2012 to January 2022 and Accounting Manager since April 2007. Prior to joining Alleghany, Ms. Anbinder was at Merrill Lynch, where she most recently served as Assistant Vice President in Private Equity Finance for the Global Markets and Investment Banking Division. Previously, Ms. Anbinder was employed at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Chase Investment Bank, prior to its acquisition by J.P. Morgan. She holds an undergraduate degree from The City University of New York and a MBA from Touro Graduate School of Business.

Vice President — Finance and Chief Accounting Officer since July 2006 and Vice President — Finance since February 2006, was Director of Financial Reporting for American International Group, Inc. since 2003, and prior to that, Director of Accounting Policy and Special Projects since 2000. Mr. Borrelli is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a graduate of Susquehana University.

Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer since April 2014 and Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary since April 2012. Prior to that, from 2007 to March 2012, Ms. Burghart was an associate in the law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP. Ms. Burghart is a graduate of Columbia University and Duke University School of Law.

Vice President — Tax Director since April 2007 and prior to joining Alleghany, was Vice President and Tax Director for the Quanta Insurance Group. Prior to that, Mr. Carr was Vice President of Chubb Financial Solutions, Inc., the financial services unit of The Chubb Corporation. Mr. Carr is a member of the Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Connecticut Bar Association. Mr. Carr is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and the University of Connecticut Law School.

Vice President – Corporate Finance since February 2020 and Chief Risk Officer since January 2021, was Assistant Vice President – Corporate Finance from August 2019 to February 2020. Prior to joining Alleghany, Mr. James was at Goldman Sachs since 2014, where he most recently served as a Vice President in its Investment Banking Division. Mr. James is a CFA® charterholder and a FRM® charterholder. He holds an undergraduate degree in Actuarial Science from the University of the West Indies (Jamaica) and a MBA from Columbia Business School.