David Furby is Senior Vice President, Chubb Group; Regional President, Europe, Middle East and Africa; and Division President, Chubb Global Markets. He has overall responsibility for the general management and business results across 27 countries in the region. He also has executive management responsibility for Chubb Global Markets, the company’s international wholesale business headquartered in London.
Mr. Furby has more than 35 years of experience in the insurance industry. Prior to his current role, he served as Regional President, European Group and, before that, Division President, Commercial Property and Casualty, Overseas General Insurance, a position he retained after the company, then named ACE, acquired Chubb in 2016. He was appointed Vice President, ACE Group, in March 2014 and Senior Vice President, Chubb Group, in July 2018.
Mr. Furby has also served as the Regional President responsible for the company’s business in Continental Europe. From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Furby was Division President of ACE Tempest Re Group, where he oversaw ACE’s worldwide reinsurance operations and was responsible for the continued development of these businesses. He has also served as the company’s Corporate Reinsurance Officer.
Mr. Furby joined ACE Group in 1996 when the company acquired the Ockham Syndicate. He was Treaty Underwriter for Syndicate 219, and later Director of Inwards and Outwards Reinsurance for Syndicate 2488, ACE Global Markets. Earlier in his career, he was a broker at Greig Fester from 1981 to 1989.