Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> December 3, 2002
RICHARD A. BARASCH is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Universal
American Financial Corp., a publicly traded company that operates life
and health insurance companies and administrative services companies
focused on the senior market. Under Mr. Barasch's leadership, Universal
American has grown to revenues in excess of $750 million, assets of $1.7
billion and a market capitalization in excess of $500 million. Mr.
Barasch is past Chairman of the Life Insurance Council of New York,
Chairman of The Friends of the Bronx Leadership Academy, Chairman of the
10th and 15th Columbia Law School reunion and a Director of The Center
For Arts Education and Horace Mann Summer on the Hill. Mr. Barasch, a
native New Yorker, is a graduate of Swarthmore College (1976) and
Columbia University Law School (1979) where he was a member of the Law
Review. Profile
Mr. Barasch: The company was founded in the 1980s and struggled
through that decade. In 1988 we put together a partnership that
invested and took a
