Sabra Purtill

Senior Vice President, Investor Relations, The Hartford

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Sabra R. Purtill, CFA is Senior Vice President of Investor Relations for The Hartford, which she joined in June 2011.  Ms. Purtill began her financial services career in 1987 at The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. and in 1989 began her specialization in the insurance industry, first in corporate finance at Chase and subsequently at Merrill Lynch.  In 1995, Ms. Purtill focused on sell-side research, beginning at Conning & Co., a Hartford-based insurance research and investment boutique, and later for Keefe, Bruyette & Woods and ABN-Amro.  In 2002, Ms. Purtill joined ACE Limited, a global property-casualty insurance firm, as Senior Vice President –Corporate Finance, where in addition to corporate finance and investor relations projects, she ran the initial public offering for Assured Guaranty Ltd., an ACE subsidiary that went public in April, 2004. Ms. Purtill joined Assured Guaranty in late 2003, where she ran investor relations and communications until June 2011.

Ms. Purtill holds a B.A. with High Honors in Government and Foreign Affairs from The University of Virginia and a M.A. in Arab Studies and International Business Diplomacy from Georgetown University.  She received her CFA charter in 1995 and is the former President and current Treasurer of the NIRI-Connecticut/Westchester chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute.  She serves on the Board of Trustees for the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, the Board of the American Friends of the Lebanon Mountain Trail and on the Financial Advisory Committee of the Cavalier Daily Alumni Association.  She resides in Old Saybrook, CT.