About MBDI

Leadership Team

Ralph V. Pulver
Vice President
Travelers Bond and Specialty Insurance

Ralph began his surety career with the Travelers in 1985 in Albany, New York. Subsequently he has served in both home office and field management positions for Travelers, Continental Insurance and Amwest Surety Insurance Company. In 2001, he returned to Travelers where he serves as a Regional Underwriting Officer for Construction Services of Travelers Bond and Specialty Insurance based in Hartford, Connecticut.  He has underwriting responsibilities for Northeast Midwest territory as well as the Construction Services Express unit in Exton, Pennsylvania.

 

Ralph serves on the National Association of Surety Bond Producers’ (NASBP) Professional Development and Education Committee, the NASBP’s Virtual Seminar Advisory Board, and the NASBP’s Emerging Contractor Committee. Ralph has been a faculty member for the NASBP’s William Angel Surety School since 1990 and involved with both the development and teaching of the Level II and Level III curriculum. In 2013, the NASBP awarded Ralph with the John J. Curtin Jr Presidents Award for his distinguished service to the surety industry.

Ralph also serves on the contract surety advisory board for the Minority Business Development Institute and was recently added to serve as a member of their board of directors.  He has served the Surety and Fidelity Association of America with its initiatives in support of small and emerging contractor initiatives. He has served on the advisory committee for the Insurance Institute of America’s Associate in Surety and Fidelity Bonding designation program and is recognized by the Institute for contributing to the technical review of their AFSB 152 text book material.

Ralph is a cum laude graduate of Siena College. He received his Associate in Fidelity and Surety Bond designation in 1993.