Leadership Team

Robert Gruhl

Chief Financial Officer

Bob Gruhl is the Chief Financial Officer of Renaissance Insurance Group. He joined the firm in January 2009; in the four prior years, he had been affiliated with Renaissance in the capacity of a management and financial consultant.

Bob brings more than 30 years of successful financial, operational, and consulting experience to his role at Renaissance. This included extensive work in insurance and financial services, where he provided strategic, operational and financial advisory services to corporations in transition: start-ups, companies positioning themselves for the next growth stage, companies re-focusing their business strategies, and companies in need of an exit strategy.

He was a founding partner of Boston International Capital Partners, a strategic and capital advisory firm that provided services to CEOs of small companies in the areas of strategy, acquisitions, capital and financial planning, and sourcing capital and strategic partners to support future growth. Prior to this, he was jointly responsible for the Insurance M&A practice of Tillinghast-Towers Perrin, a global management consulting firm serving insurance and financial services companies.

Bob also spent 27 years with the Liberty Mutual Group, a Fortune 500 global insurance and financial services organization, where his most recent position was as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, with responsibility for all finance and treasury operations. This included overseeing Liberty's diversification into financial services and international insurance through extensive merger and acquisition activity; the initiation and management of alternative property/casualty risk programs; the development of business planning processes for decentralized profit centers, and of financial and capital planning models; management of relationships with Wall Street and rating agencies; the raising of external capital in support of growth and diversification; and the creation of a downstream insurance holding company and a publicly-traded financial services company. He also created a highly successful management development program.

Bob holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Operations Research) and a Masters of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Michigan. He has been a member of the Financial Executives Institute and Treasury Clubs in Boston, and has served on numerous industry advisory committees in insurance and financial services.