2022 Women to Watch Awards Americas EMEA
Bethany Greenwood Group head of specialty risks
Beazley PLC
Boston
Bethany Greenwood’s transition to insurer Beazley after many years as a broker, including more than 18 with Marsh LLC, went more smoothly than she had anticipated.
“I thought it would take a bit more time,” said Ms. Greenwood, who joined Beazley about three years ago.
Christine La Sala, non-executive director at Beazley, said Ms. Greenwood shifted “from being a distinguished broker at Marsh to becoming a senior person at an underwriting firm, which demonstrates her capacity for change, her capacity for professional growth, her capacity for taking on and being challenged by something relatively new and different.”
Ms. La Sala added that Ms. Greenwood “is a generous leader who is very supportive of her team.”
Ms. Greenwood, who was born on a U.S. Army base in Nuremberg, Germany while her father was in the military, also grew up in California, Texas and New Hampshire.
She graduated from Keene State College in New Hampshire, working summers as a waitress and taxi driver to finance her education.
Between her junior and senior years, she had a summer job working in Reliance National Insurance Co.’s directors and officers liability unit, which led to her writing a 100-page report on D&O as her undergraduate thesis.
After graduating from college and time spent in California, where she received an MBA from the CSUSM College of Business Administration in San Marcos, she rejoined Reliance.
Jobs with Aon PLC’s financial services group and at Marsh, where she rose to become West Coast FINPRO leader, followed.
Ms. Greenwood, who joined Beazley in September 2019 as global head of executive risk, was appointed head of specialty risks in March 2022. In her current role, she manages a team of more than 330 people.
In her spare time, she and her husband, Tom, who was in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry for many years and is now an entrepreneur, commute from Boston to Kennebunk, Maine, where they share a vacation home with her sister and her family.
