AmTrust Financial company history timeline

1998

AmTrust Financial Services was founded by brothers George Karfunkel and Michael Karfunkel in 1998.

2005

In 2005, Ronald (Ron) Pipoly was appointed as Chief Financial Officer.

2006

AmTrust began trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on November 13, 2006.

2014

Zyskind was listed by Forbes as the best performing CEO in the Insurance industry in December 2014.

2016

In 2016, Barry Zyskind, Michael Karfunkel's son-in-law, was appointed as Chairman in addition to existing roles as Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of Executive Committee.

2017

In 2017, Adam Karkowsky was appointed as Chief Financial Officer.

2018

In November 2018, AmTrust completed a go-private transaction, merging with Evergreen Parent, L.P., an entity formed with private equity funds managed by Stone Point Capital LLC, together with the Karfunkel-Zyskind family.

2019

In January 2019, AmTrust voluntarily delisted and deregistered all series of preferred stock and subordinated notes.

Adam Karkowsky became president of AmTrust in December 2019.

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