Dennis Chookaszian

Dennis Chookaszian served as CNA’s Chairman and CEO from 1992 until 1999. He also served as Chairman of the Executive Committee of CNA from 1999 to 2001. From 1990 to 1992, he served as CNA’s President & COO with responsibility for all property and casualty, life, health and investment operations. He joined CNA in 1975 and served as CFO until 1990 when he was named President. He also served as Chairman & CEO of mPower Inc, an internet financial advisory service, from 1999 to 2001. Prior to joining CNA, he was a Management Consultant with Deloitte for eight years working on various financial and systems related assignments.

Dennis served as Chairman of FASAC (Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council) which provides guidance to the FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board) on accounting matters for five years and completed his term in 2011. He is also a member of the FCAG (Financial Crisis Advisory Group) which is the international commission that was created to develop recommendations to solve the financial reporting problems associated with the current economic problems.

During his career, he has served as a Director on the Boards of twelve publicly traded corporations and fifty private corporations. He is currently a Director of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the world’s largest derivatives exchange, career education, a private post secondary education provider, Allscripts, a leading provider of software for the health care sector, Internet Patents Corp, a firm that licenses Internet Patents, and MacDonald Dettwiler, a space satellite technology company. He also serves as a Director of a number of private corporations and has served as an arbitrator in ten diverse cases and an expert witness in five cases.

He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and teaches courses in Corporate Governance. He also teaches a course in International Corporate Governance at Cheung Kong University in China, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance in China, and at IIPM in India.

He is a member of the National Board of the Boy Scouts of America, a Trustee of Northwestern University, a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a member of the Advisory Board of Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He is also a Director of Northwestern Memorial Hospital & President of the Foundation for Health Enhancement.

He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University, a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Chicago, and a Master of Science in Economics from London School of Economics. He is a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter, a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Management Consultant as well as a member of the directors’ table of Beta Gamma Sigma, an honorary fraternity. In 2010, he received the Outstanding Director Award from the Financial Times Outstanding Directors Exchange.