Jones ’78 Named President of SPARTA Insurance

Ralph Jones III ’78 was recently named president and chief operating officer of SPARTA Insurance.

An economics major at Wesleyan, he began his insurance career at Chubb and Son, with underwriting positions of increasing responsibility in their offices on both the East and West coasts. Named chief underwriting officer for Europe, he moved to London and later became president of Chubb Europe. In 1999, he was named CEO of Chubb Executive Risk (later Chubb Specialty Insurance).

In 2003, he joined Arch Worldwide Insurance as their CEO and then, five years later, joined Everest Reinsurance Holdings as president and COO. Jones has completed graduate programs at both Tuck School at Dartmouth and Harvard Business School.