Chris Maleno
Senior Vice President, ACE Group
Division President, ACE USA
Chris Maleno is Division President of ACE USA. He is responsible for the operations of the company’s Philadelphia-based retail broker-distributed commercial property and casualty (P&C) and accident and health (A&H) insurance business. Mr. Maleno was appointed to his current position in March 2013 and before that served as ACE USA’s Chief Operating Officer for the previous two years. He was appointed Senior Vice President, ACE Group, in March 2014.
In 2008, Mr. Maleno was appointed President, ACE Casualty Risk, where he was responsible for leading and executing strategic business plans for ACE USA’s portfolio of casualty insurance products, including lead umbrella and excess liability, custom casualty, public entity, construction, workers compensation and environmental liability.
Mr. Maleno joined ACE as Division President, ACE Regional Operations for ACE USA in 2007. In this position, Mr. Maleno oversaw ACE USA’s field operations by driving distribution strategies with brokers on a national and regional basis, as well as overseeing expansion of ACE USA’s product and marketing strategy at the local level. In addition, Mr. Maleno was responsible for ACE USA’s focused customer segmentation model and strategies, which deliver customized products and services to large national accounts, middle market corporate risk accounts, and small commercial businesses. Prior to joining ACE, Mr. Maleno served as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President for American Home, a unit of AIG. He also held key senior leadership positions in casualty underwriting and regional operations management at AIG and Chubb.
Mr. Maleno received a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of Vermont and holds an MBA from Columbia University.