Transatlantic Reinsurance Company Announces Promotions

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At its regularly scheduled meeting, the Board of Directors of Transatlantic Reinsurance Company, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Alleghany Corporation (NYSE:Y), elected the following officers:

New York:	Socrates Pichardo – Senior Vice President
	Tanya Korobeinikova – Vice President
	Claude Bunick – Vice President
London:	Douglas Murray – Senior Vice President
	Louise Rose – Senior Vice President
	Graham Daly – Vice President
	Robin Mitchell - Vice President
	Michael Falzon – Assistant Vice President
	John Robinson – Assistant Vice President
Hong Kong:	Arthur Chu – Assistant Vice President

Transatlantic Reinsurance Company, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Alleghany Corporation, is a leading international reinsurance organization headquartered in New York with operations worldwide. Transatlantic and its subsidiaries, Trans Re Zurich Reinsurance Company Ltd. and Fair American Insurance and Reinsurance Company (FAIRCO), offer reinsurance capacity on both a treaty and facultative basis – structuring programs for a full range of property and casualty products, with an emphasis on specialty risks.

Visit www.transre.com for additional information about TransRe.