On paper, Kevin McComber was not what you would call a typical insurance man. He had hard-science chops, holding physics and materials science and engineering degrees at the bachelor’s and doctorate level, all earned at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as technical private-sector experience. Out of MIT, McComber had decamped for Chandler, Arizona, where he worked in manufacturing, doing process engineering for Intel.
But after a few years in the desert, McComber wanted back in Boston, and he ended up applying for, and getting, a job at insurance giant Liberty Mutual, working out of the company’s flagship building on Berkeley Street. “I never pictured working in insurance, having done a hardcore engineering degree,” McComber told me, but the Special Projects team he ended up on wasn’t terribly unfamiliar. “The processing was actually similar to what I was doing at Intel.”
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