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"The Institute has been working for more than 50 years to help reduce injuries, deaths, and property damage on our nation's roads. It's a goal we all share. I look forward to working with my colleagues and fellow Board members on this very important and challenging work," Boyden says. Institute president Adrian Lund adds, "Brian's strong leadership will help us continue to build on our successful research and crash test programs in 2008."
The new chairman-elect is Gregory V. Ostergren, chairman, president, and chief executive officer, American National Property & Casualty Companies. Serving as vice chairman is Jonathan Bennett, executive vice president, personal and small business insurance, The Hartford. Other IIHS Board members are David R. Anderson, chairman and chief executive officer, American Family Mutual Insurance Group; R. Gregory Ator, chairman, president, and chief executive officer, Bituminous Insurance Companies; Debra Ballen, executive vice president, public policy management, American Insurance Association; Jerry Canada, chief executive officer and executive vice president, Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance; Charles Chamness, president and chief executive officer, National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies; Paul Condrin, president, personal markets, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company; Eugene C. Connell, senior vice president and division officer, actuarial division, Erie Insurance Group; Frederick F. Cripe, senior vice president, product operations, Allstate Insurance Company; Myron L. Dye, senior vice president, chief actuary, property and casualty actuary, USAA; Jeff Gendron, senior vice president, property/ casualty operations, COUNTRY Insurance and Financial Services; Steven George, senior vice president, insurance services, California State Automobile Association; Michael Hughes, executive vice president, insurance operations, Safeco Insurance; Douglas S. Joyce, president, Alfa Alliance Insurance Corporation; Mory Katz, chairman and chief executive officer, Response Insurance; Joseph P. Lacher Jr., executive vice president, personal lines, The Travelers Companies; Adrian Lund, president, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety; Bill Martin, senior vice president, personal lines, auto product management, Farmers Insurance Group of Companies; Don McCubbin, executive vice president, Shelter Insurance; W. Neal Menefee, president and chief executive officer, Rockingham Group; William Moore, president, MetLife Auto and Home; O.M. Nicely, chairman, president, and chief executive officer, GEICO Corporation; Frances D. O'Brien, senior vice president, worldwide underwriting manager, Chubb Group of Insurance Companies; Paul Pyne, senior vice president and superintendent, Amica Mutual Insurance Company; Stephen S. Rasmussen, president and chief operating officer, property and casualty insurance operations, Nationwide Insurance; David Sampson, president and chief executive officer, Property Casualty Insurers Association of America; David J. Skove, general manager, South region, Progressive Insurance; and Bob Tart, underwriting manager, North Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company. |
