Chubb promoted Adam Gooch to Senior Vice President, Global Chapter Lead for Data Analysis and Data Product Management. Gooch is now overseeing the global data analysis and product strategy across all markets and business units.
A Global Role for a Transformational Leader
Gooch is tasked with scaling data capabilities globally, standardizing how teams operate, and strengthening the company’s ability to turn data into actionable insights. For a business that spans dozens of countries and handles massive volumes of risk, underwriting, and claims data, the job is as much about leadership as it is about technology.
Leading Data Transformation Across North America
Before stepping into this global position, Gooch served as vice president of data & analytics for North America. In that role, he led major analytics programs across Chubb’s Small Business and Commercial Insurance divisions, helping modernize how data supported both front-line operations and long-term planning.
Now, the focus shifts to scale. Gooch’s new mandate includes building a stronger data product management discipline, ensuring data assets are designed, delivered, and maintained like products, not one-off projects. This shift matters because the company wants consistency in how data is used to inform decisions, from claims processing to customer engagement.
Scaling Global Data Strategy
Gooch is also responsible for aligning data analysis teams worldwide, introducing enterprise standards, and mentoring the next generation of data talent within Chubb. That includes creating clear career paths, defining role structures, and moving the organization toward more product-led data delivery models.
Over the years, Gooch has built a career at the intersection of business operations and data strategy. Before joining Chubb, he held leadership roles at AXIS Capital and Travelers, where he worked across enterprise project management, operations, and data integration. That background gave him experience navigating large-scale transformations, experience that’s now central to his work at Chubb.
Driving Business Outcomes Through Data
Gooch holds an MBA from the University of Hartford and a degree in management information systems from the University of Connecticut. His approach to leadership is grounded in getting data teams closer to business outcomes and getting business stakeholders more comfortable with using data to drive their work.
Chubb’s decision to elevate him into this global position comes at a time when insurers across the board are facing pressure to modernize. The data stakes are higher than ever. AI models depend on clean inputs, regulatory bodies expect auditability, and customers increasingly demand personalized, digital-first experiences.
A Vision for Data-Driven Agility
Chubb is working to meet those challenges by rethinking how data is built, shared, and governed. Gooch’s appointment signals a desire to break out of the traditional reporting mindset and build something more durable, a data strategy that holds up across product lines, geographies, and use cases.
This move is about setting standards that allow different parts of the business to trust, reuse, and scale insights. That requires someone who understands both how data gets made and how it gets used and someone who can bring technical, business, and change management skills to the table. Gooch checks all these boxes.
Building Global Data Consistency
His role also reflects a broader industry trend: companies are putting experienced leaders in charge of building strong data chapters, cross-functional groups designed to enforce consistency, accelerate adoption, and nurture talent at scale. At Chubb, Gooch now leads that effort on a global level.
The goal is to make sure that wherever teams sit, in North America, Asia, or Europe, they’re working off the same playbook when it comes to data strategy. That includes how data products are developed, what skill sets are needed, and how performance is measured.
Chubb’s Data Leadership
Chubb isn’t the first insurer to realize that global coordination around data is no longer optional. This move clearly shows that the company wants to take the lead instead of just reacting to changes in the market. Gooch is now at the center of this transformation. His challenge: to turn Chubb’s vast stores of data into a source of agility, intelligence, and growth. His opportunity: to set the tone for how data is built and used across one of the world’s largest insurance providers.
For Gooch, this feels like a natural next step in his career. For Chubb, it’s a sign that the future of insurance will be shaped by people who understand how to build trust not just in the market, but also in the data that drives the industry.
