People: ProAssurance Corp (PRA.N)

PRA.N on New York Stock Exchange

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2 Aug 2013
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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

William Starnes

64 2012 Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer

Edward Rand

46 2005 Chief Financial Officer

Frank O'Neil

59 2001 Senior Vice President - Corporate Communications and Investor Relations

Jeffrey Lisenby

44 2007 Senior Vice President, Corporate Secretary

Howard Friedman

54 Chief Underwriting Officer; Co-President of Professional Liability Group

Darryl Thomas

55 Chief Claims Officer; Co-President of Professional Liability Group

Robert Flowers

63 2012 Lead Independent Director

Lucian Bloodworth

72 2002 Independent Director

M. James Gorrie

50 2012 Independent Director

William Listwan

70 2006 Independent Director

John McMahon

70 2002 Independent Director

Drayton Nabers

68 2008 Independent Director

Ann Putallaz

67 2001 Independent Director

Frank Spinosa

58 2012 Independent Director

Anthony Tersigni

63 2012 Independent Director

Thomas Wilson

51 2012 Independent Director

Biographies

Name Description

William Starnes

Mr. William Stancil Starnes, Esq., is Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer of ProAssurance Corp. Mr. Starnes was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of ProAssurance in July 2007 and has served as the Chairman of the Board since October 2008. Mr. Starnes previously served as President, Corporate Planning and Administration of Brasfield & Gorrie, Inc., commercial construction firm. Prior to October 2006, Mr. Starnes served as the Senior and Managing Partner of the law firm of Starnes & Atchison, LLP, where he was involved with ProAssurance and its predecessors in the defense of medical professional liability claims for over 25 years. Mr. Starnes currently serves as a director of Infinity Property and Casualty Corporation, a public insurance holding company, where he serves on the audit, compensation and executive committees. He formerly served as a director of Alabama National Bancorporation.

Edward Rand

Mr. Edward L. Rand, Jr., is Chief Financial Officer of ProAssurance Corp. Mr. Rand was appointed Chief Financial Officer in April 2005, having joined ProAssurance as Senior Vice President of Finance in November 2004. Prior to joining ProAssurance Mr. Rand was the Chief Accounting Officer and Head of Corporate Finance for PartnerRe Ltd. Prior to that time Mr. Rand served as the Chief Financial Officer of Atlantic American Corporation. Mr. Rand is a Certified Public Accountant.

Frank O'Neil

Mr. Frank B. O'Neil is Senior Vice President - Corporate Communications and Investor Relations of ProAssurance Corp. Mr. O’Neil joined the Company's predecessor in 1987 and has been Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications since 1997.

Jeffrey Lisenby

Mr. Jeffrey P. Lisenby is Senior Vice President, Corporate Secretary of ProAssurance Corp. Mr. Lisenby was appointed as a Senior Vice President in December 2007 and has served as the Company's Corporate Secretary since January 2006 and head of the corporate Legal Department since 2001. Mr. Lisenby previously practiced law privately in Birmingham, Alabama. Mr. Lisenby is a member of the Alabama State Bar and the United States Supreme Court Bar and is a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter.

Howard Friedman

Mr. Howard H. Friedman is Chief Underwriting Officer of ProAssurance Corp., and Co-President of Professional Liability Group, a subsidiary of the company. Mr. Friedman was appointed as a Co-President of Professional Liability Group in October 2005, and is also the Company's Chief Underwriting Officer. Mr. Friedman has previously served as Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Secretary, and as the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development. Mr. Friedman joined predecessor in 1996. Mr. Friedman is an Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society.

Darryl Thomas

Mr. Darryl K. Thomas is Chief Claims Officer of ProAssurance Corp., and Co-President of Professional Liability Group, a subsidiary of the company. Mr. Thomas has been with ProAssurance since its inception and currently serves as a Co-President of the Company's Professional Liability Group, a position he has held since October 2005, and the company's Chief Claims Officer. Previously, Mr. Thomas was Senior Vice President of Claims for Professionals Group. Prior to joining the predecessor to Professionals Group in 1995, Mr. Thomas was Executive Vice President of a national third-party administrator of professional liability claims. Prior to that time, Mr. Thomas served as Vice President and Litigation Counsel for the Kentucky Hospital Association.

Robert Flowers

Dr. Robert E. Flowers, M.D., is Lead Independent Director of ProAssurance Corp. Prior to June 2001, Dr. Flowers served as a director of insurance subsidiary, ProAssurance Indemnity Company, Inc. (formerly, The Medical Assurance Company, Inc.) from 1985 to 2001, and as a director of its former holding company, Medical Assurance, Inc. (1995-2001). Dr. Flowers practiced as a physician with Gynecology Associates of Dothan P.C., Dothan, Alabama, prior to his retirement in 2001.

Lucian Bloodworth

Mr. Lucian F. Bloodworth is Independent Director of ProAssurance Corp. Mr. Bloodworth has been the Chairman of Cain Manufacturing, a manufacturer of specialty parts for air distribution and roofing based in Birmingham, Alabama since 1988. Prior to that time he was a senior executive for life insurance subsidiaries of Protective Life Corporation and for National Bank of Commerce. Mr. Bloodworth has been a fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

M. James Gorrie

Mr. M. James Gorrie is Independent Director of ProAssurance Corp. Mr. Gorrie is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Brasfield & Gorrie in Birmingham, Alabama, a construction firm with recent annual revenues in excess of $2 billion. He holds a B.S. in Building Science from Auburn University and serves as a Director of First Commercial Bank (a division of Synovus Bank, one of community banks in the Southeast) and St. Vincent’s Hospital in Birmingham, among other entities.

William Listwan

Dr. William J. Listwan, M.D., is Independent Director of ProAssurance Corp. Dr. Listwan was a member of the Board of Directors of ProAssurance Wisconsin Insurance Company (‘‘PRA Wisconsin’’), formerly Physicians Insurance Company of Wisconsin, Inc. from its organization in 1986 until its merger with ProAssurance in August 2006. Dr. Listwan practiced Internal Medicine with the Aurora Health Center in West Bend, Wisconsin, from July 1974 to April 2006. From April 2006 until July 2009 he practiced on the faculty of the Medical College of Wisconsin (“MCW”). He continues to teach medical students as a volunteer and currently holds an appointment as Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at MCW. He has served as a member of the Board of Trustees at MCW and was the President of Wisconsin Medical Society from 1992-1993. He currently works part time for Quad-Med, a subsidiary of Quad Graphics, Inc, in Milwaukee.

John McMahon

Mr. John J. McMahon, Jr., Esq., is Independent Director of ProAssurance Corp. Mr. McMahon has served as Chairman of Ligon Industries, a manufacturer of waste water treatment equipment, aluminum castings and hydraulic cylinders, following his service as Chairman of the executive committee of McWane, Inc. in Birmingham, Alabama, from 1999 until December 31, 2005. Mr. McMahon currently serves as a director of Protective Life Corporation, a public insurance holding company based in Birmingham, Alabama and formerly served as a director of Alabama National BanCorporation and John H. Harland Company.

Drayton Nabers

Mr. Drayton Nabers, Jr., Esq., is Independent Director of ProAssurance Corp. Mr. Nabers also served as a director of ProAssurance from February 2002 until he resigned effective December 31, 2002, to serve as Finance Director of the State of Alabama. Mr. Nabers served as Finance Director until June 2004, when he was appointed Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court where he served until 2006. He is currently in private practice with the law firm of Maynard, Cooper & Gale, PC in Birmingham, Alabama. Mr. Nabers was a senior executive officer of Protective Life Corporation from 1979 until his retirement as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 2001. He is currently a director of Infinity Property and Casualty Corporation, where he serves as Chairman of the nominating and corporate governance committee, and is a member of the investment and executive committees.

Ann Putallaz

Ms. Ann F. Putallaz, Ph.D., is Independent Director of ProAssurance Corp. Prior to 2001, Ms. Putallaz served as a director of predecessor, Professionals Group, Inc. (1996-2001), and as its Vice-Chairman (1999-2001). Ms. Putallaz received her Ph.D. in economics in 1974 and has served in various capacities for firms engaged in the investment management business since 1983. Ms. Putallaz is currently Principal of AFP Consulting, LLC. She retired from Munder Capital Management, an investment advisor to The Munder Funds, an open end investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 where she served as Director of Data & Communication Services.

Frank Spinosa

Dr. Frank A. Spinosa is Independent Director of ProAssurance Corp. Dr. Spinosa is a board-certified podiatrist and is a partner and founder of Shelter Island Podiatry Associates in Shelter Island, New York. Dr. Spinosa serves as a member of the Board of Trustees and as Vice President of the American Podiatric Medical Association and is a past President of the New York State Podiatric Medical Association. He has taught as an Associate Professor of Radiology at the New York College of Podiatric Medicine.

Anthony Tersigni

Dr. Anthony R. Tersigni, Ed.D., FACHE is Independent Director of ProAssurance Corp., since May 16, 2012. Dr. Tersigni is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Ascension Health Alliance in St. Louis, Missouri, the new parent holding company for Ascension Health. Ascension Health is the not-for-profit and the Catholic health system in the United States. Prior to the creation of the new holding company organizational structure, Dr. Tersigni served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Ascension Health for over 7 years. Dr. Tersigni holds a doctorate in the field of leadership and organizational development from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, as well as honorary doctorates from the Aquinas Institute of Theology and St. Louis University.

Thomas Wilson

Mr. Thomas A.S. Wilson, Jr., M.D., Independent Director of ProAssurance Corp. Dr. Wilson is a board-certified neurosurgeon with Neurosurgical Associates, P.C., in Birmingham, Alabama. He holds a B.S. in natural science and mathematics from Washington & Lee University and M.D. from Vanderbilt University. He completed an internship in general surgery and a residency in neurosurgery at Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University.
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