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Maggie Westdale; Senior Vp and Senior Financial Officer for Property/Casualty Operations, CNA Financial Corp.Chicago.(35 Rising Stars)(Brief Article)
Business Insurance, October, 2002
Age: 35 Achievements: Maggie Westdale joined CNA Financial Corp. as a senior analyst at age 28, advancing to senior vp in just over five years. She now leads planning and analysis and has oversight of all financial results for the company's $7.2 billion property/casualty operations. She played a key role in restructuring and centralizing operations into standard and specialty lines, as well as establishing common reporting and planning practices.
She also led a project to improve the company's management information system. Ms. Westdale also has served senior vp and senior financial officer of CNA's Technology Solutions Group, where she consolidated seven technology financial organizations into one, cutting staff and saving the company more than $2 million...
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