Michael Snead, the former chairman and president of Cherry Hill, N.J.-based surplus lines carrier Admiral Insurance Company, died last week in Horseheads, N.Y., after a long illness. He was 80 years old.

A U.S. Army veteran of World War II, he was widely known as the “ambassador-at-large” of Greenwich, Conn.-based W.R. Berkley Insurance, the parent company of Admiral Insurance, filling different roles wherever the help was needed.

He was an avid golfer and was a stock market enthusiast.

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