CHICAGO, Jan. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- CNA Financial Corporation (NYSE: CNA) today announced the appointment of Naveen Baweja to vice president of Analytics. In this role, Naveen will provide leadership and support to the underwriting transformation initiatives component of the CNA Enterprise Roadmap, with a focus on enhancing the company's data and analytics capabilities.

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CNA's Enterprise Roadmap is a multiyear investment to improve business processes and technology.

"The Roadmap is a critical enabler to delivering on our strategic goals, especially in the further development of our customer segments and underwriting profitability," said Larry Haefner, executive vice president and chief actuary, CNA. "I am confident that Naveen's experience will help provide leadership to further enhance the company's data and analytics capabilities necessary to drive underwriting profitability improvement."

Naveen comes to CNA with has more than 15 years of experience spanning financial services, technology, management consulting and entrepreneurship. Most recently, Naveen served as the head of a startup venture company. Prior to that, Naveen led strategy at Canara HSBC Life Insurance and held a number of consulting engagements at McKinsey & Company.

Naveen holds a bachelors degree from the Indian Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Naveen can be reached at (312) 822-6534, or at naveen.baweja@cna.com

Serving businesses and professionals since 1897, CNA is the country's eighth largest commercial insurance writer and the 13th largest property and casualty company. CNA's insurance products include standard commercial lines, specialty lines, surety, marine and other property and casualty coverages. CNA's services include risk management, information services, underwriting, risk control and claims administration. For more information, please visit CNA at www.cna.com. "CNA" is a service mark registered by CNA Financial Corporation with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Certain CNA Financial Corporation subsidiaries use the "CNA" service mark in connection with insurance underwriting and claims activities.

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