Robert Pick '92, P'25, McDaniel College trustee

Robert Pick is the executive vice president and chief information officer for Tokio Marine North America, where he leads the team providing full-suite digital and technology services, and is the global deputy chief information officer for Tokio Marine Group, one of the largest insurance companies globally with businesses in 57 countries and $50 billion in annual revenue. For Tokio Marine North America, he also oversees a global team of more than 1,100 technologists for Philadelphia Insurance, Tokio Marine America, First Insurance Company of Hawai’i, and Tokio Marine Global Services, and also supports Tokio Marine Mexico.

Before joining Tokio Marine in 2014, he spent 16 years in major media and telecommunications, including more than a decade at publisher Conde Nast and five years at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

A current member of the McDaniel College Board of Trustees, Mr. Pick graduated from the college, summa cum laude, with a bachelor’s degree in History and Political Science in 1992 and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa national honor society along with the Phi Alpha Theta History and Pi Gamma Mu Social Sciences honor societies. He then went on to earn a master’s degree in Historic Preservation Planning from Cornell University and completed an additional two years of doctoral coursework and reading.

Currently, he is chair of the board of trustees of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Music Institute, providing music education to more than 900 students annually in the Philadelphia region. He is on the CIO (chief information officer) Council for Blumberg Capital. He served as a longtime member of the advisory board for the Johns Hopkins University Press and was a client advisory board member for NTT Data Services. He is also a member of the strategic advisory board for Guidewire (NYSE: GWRE) and is a member of the customer advisory board for Duck Creek Technologies, as well as on the board of insurtech company Korr.

Mr. Pick is an author and regularly speaks at conferences and on podcasts about topics ranging from insurtech and insurance trends to legacy modernization, cybersecurity, and generative artificial intelligence. In 2024, he authored the foreword for Paul Warburton’s book, “The Mobility Society." 

His daughter, Reagan, is a 2025 graduate of McDaniel, and Mr. Pick and his wife, Heather, recently donated to establish the new STEM Center in the Learning Commons @ Hoover Library.