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Joseph P. Lacher, Jr. has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company since November 2015. Mr. Lacher previously served in other senior executive roles in the insurance industry. From November 2009 to July 2011, Mr. Lacher was President of Allstate Protection, a unit of Allstate Corporation, where he led the company’s property and casualty offerings serving more than seventeen million American households. Prior to Allstate, Mr. Lacher spent eighteen years at The Travelers Companies, Inc., most recently serving as Executive Vice President - Personal Insurance from 2002 to 2009 and additionally as Executive Vice President - Select Accounts from 2006 to 2009.

Todd A. Shamash is President and CEO of Capital BlueCross, the leading health solutions company headquartered in Central Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley. Mr. Shamash assumed the top leadership role in April of 2020 having previously served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary leading the legal, regulatory, and governance teams. He has been uniquely involved in all major facets of Capital BlueCross' business since 2012, including strategic partnerships, overall performance, diversification strategy, subsidiary governance, finance, risk exposure and growth. His guidance has been pivotal in Capital BlueCross' emergence as a leading health plan in one of the country's most competitive healthcare environments. Mr. Shamash previously served as deputy chief of staff for the Pennsylvania Governor's Office, where he oversaw healthcare, insurance, and all health-related agencies. As senior counsel for Jefferson Health System, he was responsible for the oversight of reimbursement, payer relations, and malpractice coverage for the second largest health system in Pennsylvania. As department counsel for the Pennsylvania Insurance Department, he helped to establish managed care regulation mechanisms and health insurance regulations. Mr. Shamash has served on numerous banking, insurance, community, and health-related boards including the Pennsylvania Employee Benefits Trust Fund, Pennsylvania Health Insurance Exchange Authority, Pennsylvania Banking and Securities Commission, as an appointee of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf on the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, and Harrisburg’s Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts. He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and Dickinson Law School. A native of Central Pennsylvania, he resides in Cumberland County with his wife and two children.

Steve Olson is a President and Chief Underwriting Officer at Great West Casualty. He has worked as Senior Executive Vice President at Great West Casualty and Assistant Actuary at Preferred Risk Mutual. Steve attended Gustavus Adolphus College between 1982 and 1986.

Ken Provencher works at PacificSource Health Plans and a President & CEO at PacificSource Health Plans and is based in Springfield, Oregon. He attended The Wharton School between 1983 and 1985 and Providence College between 1973 and 1977.

John has worked as Senior VP:Mktg & Field Ops at Pma Companies, Inc.; Executive VP at Pma Companies, Inc.; and Exec VP:Risk Service & Sales at Pma Companies, Inc.. He attended Gettysburg College.