John J. Burns

No open positions remaining

94 year

Finance

Consumer Services

Transportation

Profile

Mr. John J.
Burns, Jr., is Chairman at Alleghany Insurance.
Mr. Burns joined Alleghany Corp.
in 1968 as Vice President of Finance.
He was President and Chief Operating Officer of Alleghany Corp.
from 1977 to 1992.
He was a Director of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation and Fidelity National Financial, Inc. Before joining Alleghany Corp., Mr. Burns was a General Partner of New York Securities Co. and a Security Analyst at Goldman Sachs & Co. Mr. Burns holds a degree from Boston College and the Harvard Business School.

Former positions of John J. Burns

Companies	Position	End
ALLEGHANY CORPORATION	Chairman	2010-07-05
BURLINGTON NORTHERN SANTA FE, LLC	Director/Board Member	2004-04-20
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Provides brokerage services	Analyst-Equity	1967-12-30
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. /Old/ Fidelity National Financial, Inc. /Old/ Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Provides outsourced services and solutions to financial institutions and real estate industries	Director/Board Member	-
Alleghany Insurance Holdings LLC (Invt Port) Alleghany Insurance Holdings LLC (Invt Port) Investment ManagersFinance Alleghany-IP seeks to create stockholder value through the ownership and management of a small group of operating businesses and investments, employing a core position in property and casualty insurance. The firm seeks attractive investment opportunities, delegates responsibilities to competent and motivated managers, defines risk parameters, sets management goals for their operating businesses, ensures that managers are provided with incentives to meet these goals and monitors their progress. The operating businesses function in an entrepreneurial climate as quasi-autonomous enterprises. Alleghany's management philosophy is conservative. They avoid investment fads and fashions in favor of acquiring relatively few interests in basic financial and industrial enterprises that offer the potential to deliver long-term value to the investor.	Chairman	-

See the detail of John J. Burns's experience

Training of John J. Burns

Experiences
Positions held

Active

Inactive

Listed companies

Private companies

See the detail of John J. Burns's experience

Connections

1st degree connections

1st degree companies

Male

Female

Members of the board

Executives

See the personal network

Linked companies

Private companies	7
Alleghany Corp. Alleghany Corp. Property/Casualty InsuranceFinance Provides property and casualty reinsurance and insurance and financial services	Finance
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. RailroadsTransportation Provides rail transportation services	Transportation
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. /Old/ Fidelity National Financial, Inc. /Old/ Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Provides outsourced services and solutions to financial institutions and real estate industries	Technology Services
Harvard University Harvard University Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
Alleghany Insurance Holdings LLC (Invt Port) Alleghany Insurance Holdings LLC (Invt Port) Investment ManagersFinance Alleghany-IP seeks to create stockholder value through the ownership and management of a small group of operating businesses and investments, employing a core position in property and casualty insurance. The firm seeks attractive investment opportunities, delegates responsibilities to competent and motivated managers, defines risk parameters, sets management goals for their operating businesses, ensures that managers are provided with incentives to meet these goals and monitors their progress. The operating businesses function in an entrepreneurial climate as quasi-autonomous enterprises. Alleghany's management philosophy is conservative. They avoid investment fads and fashions in favor of acquiring relatively few interests in basic financial and industrial enterprises that offer the potential to deliver long-term value to the investor.	Finance
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Provides brokerage services	Finance
Boston College Boston College Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services