Roger Haynes

A Virginian by birth and a Bostonian by choice, Roger Haynes has been a commercial insurance broker for over thirty years. He began his career at Johnson & Higgins in Boston, specializing in the risk management needs of financial services companies. He is coauthor of the authoritative manual, Bank Insurance and Risk Management, and has several times been a speaker the American Banking Association’s Insurance Risk Management Forum. He founded and ran the North American Management Liability Practice for the Sedgwick Group and today is Area Executive Vice President for Gallagher in Boston. Roger is a Vietnam veteran, serving with the Army Security Agency as a traffic analyst and French/Cambodian language specialist. For the last year of his service there, he provided the daily signal intelligence briefing to the command staff and was awarded the Bronze Star for his service. After graduating cum laude from Brandeis University, Roger entered graduate school at the University of Virginia, where he studied textual criticism and bibliography in the program founded by Fredson Bowers. He and a team of graduate students and faculty built a working replica of an eighteenth-century wooden printing press that is still used today in the curriculum of the Rare Book School at UVA. He graduated with a master’s degree in English. Roger had his first guest card at the Athenaeum in 1970 and today is a Proprietor and active discussion group participant. Besides the Boston Athenaeum, Roger is also passionate about golf and his family. He and his wife, Adelaide, live in Milton and enjoy books, theatre, music, art, and holidays with their children and grandchildren.