Steve Goldberg
Senior Vice President
Benfield Blanch, the U.S. subsidiary of the Benfield Group

Mr. Goldberg oversees the analytics capabilities at Benfield Blanch in addition to consulting directly with clients.

Prior to joining the Benfield Group in January 2002, Mr. Goldberg spent his entire career at USAA in San Antonio. In his most recent three years he served as Senior Vice President of P&C Underwriting and Pricing. His responsibilities included management of USAA's actuarial and underwriting staff as well as the company's catastrophe financial management. For nine year prior to his position as head of Underwriting and Pricing he was Senior Vice President Chief Actuary.

Mr. Goldberg led USAA's pioneering efforts to acquire reinsurance capacity through direct access to the capital markets. This catastrophe bond securitization, known as Residential Reinsurance, has been placed annually since 1997. The Residential Reinsurance transaction was published as a case study at the Harvard Business School, where Mr. Goldberg participated as a guest lecturer to help present the case.

Mr. Goldberg graduated from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and holds an M.B.A. from Temple University. He is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society, a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries and a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter. He received the CPCU National Standard Setter Award in August 2001.  

Mr. Goldberg served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Casualty Actuarial Society, the Wharton School Managing Catastrophe Risks Project and the Highway Loss Data Institute. He continues to reside in San Antonio while traveling extensively to support a wide array of Benfield Group clients.