Director since 1997 and Chairman of the Board since May 2011. Chairman, President & CEO of RLI Corp. and Chairman & CEO of its principal subsidiaries. Prior positions include: associate, Coopers & Lybrand LLP (now known as PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP). Board/trustee memberships: director, investment management software maker SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc.; director, sunglass manufacturer Maui Jim, Inc.; past chair, Property & Casualty Insurers Association of America Board of Governors; vice chairman, Easter Seals Foundation of Central Illinois Board of Trustees; member and past-president, OSF Saint Francis Medical Center’s Community Advisory Board; member, Illinois Neurological Institute Advisory Board; member, Peoria’s CEO Council; member, National Council of Advisors for the Bradley University Foster College of Business; member, Ohio Dominican University’s Board of Trustees.