Gary Haase is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer, responsible for leading Technology, Analytics and Operations for CNA. He also has leadership of two business units – Small Business and Affinity Programs. 

Gary joined CNA in 2021 after a 13-year career at Catalina Holdings, where he was most recently the Group Chief Operating Officer, after previously serving as CEO of Catalina’s US and Bermuda entities. He has nearly two decades of experience in the insurance industry and has held a wide variety of leadership roles including responsibility for operations, liability management, data analytics, corporate strategy and technology.

Gary is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS) and occasionally teaches graduate-level courses in statistics and data analysis as Associate Adjunct Professor at the New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa and an MBA in Quantitative Finance from NYU Stern.