HARTWICK COLLEGE ANNOUNCES:

Liberty Mutual

CEO David Long

Leads Trustees

ONEONTA – Liberty Mutual Insurance Group President CEO David H. Long, ’83, who received an honorary doctorate in 2014, is the new chair of the Hartwick College Board of Trustees, effective July 1, the college announced today.

He succeeds Francis D. Landrey, father of a 2006 graduate, board chair since 2013.

Long was a Hartwick trustee in 2002-11, and rejoined the board in 2016. He was elected vice chair in 2018.

College President Margaret L. Drugovich praised “his deep commitment to Hartwick, as well as his appreciation for the college’s historic place in American higher education, and the college’s importance to our local community.”

She cited his experience as a corporate leader and experience with non-profits and Hartwick as making him “well-prepared to guide the board as it navigates the rapidly changing higher education landscape.”

At Liberty Mutual, Long oversees a company ranked 75th on the Fortune 100 list of largest corporations in the U.S. based on 2018 revenue. As of Dec. 31, 2018, the business had $41.6 billion in annual consolidated revenue. Based in Boston, Liberty Mutual has operations in 30 countries and economies around the world.

Long began his career with Liberty Mutual in 1985 as a financial analyst. Since then, he has held positions of increasing responsibility in the company’s International Operations, Commercial Markets, Underwriting and Financial, and Mergers and Acquisitions segments.

His most recent promotion to chairman quickly followed his appointment as chief executive officer in 2011, president and member of the Board of Directors of Liberty Mutual Group in 2010, president of Liberty International in 2009, and executive vice president and president of Liberty Mutual’s Commercial Markets in 2005.

After earning a bachelor of arts in mathematics from Hartwick College in 1983, Long graduated first in his class from Boston College with a master’s degree in finance. As an undergraduate at Hartwick, he was named a John Christopher Hartwick Scholar – the College’s highest academic recognition – and was selected as an All-American on Hartwick’s Division I Soccer team. He was inducted into the Hartwick College Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004, and in 2013 he received the Distinguished Alumnus award from the Hartwick College Alumni Association.

Long is married to Hartwick graduate Stephanie Isgur Long, ’84.

Hartwick also named or reappointed three trustees:

• Sally Griffiths Herbert, ’88, H’19, manager of Ring Brook Farm in Plainfield, N.H., and previously owner of the Whaleback Ski Area in Lebanon, N.H., has served in 2009-18.
• Steven M. Bloom, ’76, has held several leadership and management roles in business and non-profit real estate management, including Shearson Lehman/American and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, and Greenpeace International, the International Monetary Fund and UNICEF. He lives in Washington, D.C.
• Steven B. Epstein, father of 2018 graduate Alex Epstein and a founding partner of Barket Epstein Kearon Aldea and LoTurco, in Garden City, widely recognized as one of the foremost DWI attorneys in the country. He is on the faculty the National College for DUI Defense, and has been an adjunct professor at Pace University and an instructor at the Legal Aid Society of the City of New York.