CHICAGO, March 18,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Old Republic International
Corporation (NYSE: ORI) today announced Therace M. Risch (51) has joined its Board
of Directors as of March 18, 2024.
She has concurrently been appointed to the Board's Audit and
Governance and Nominating Committees, as well as to the
Directorship of ORI's major regulated insurance company
subsidiaries.
Ms. Risch is currently the Executive Vice President and Chief
Information & Technology Officer for American Electric Power
Company, Inc. She was previously Executive Vice President and Chief
Information & Digital Officer at J. C. Penney Company, Inc. and
Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at COUNTRY
Financial. Further, she has ten years of experience directly in the
insurance industry working at the St. Paul Companies, Inc. and
COUNTRY Financial. In making the announcement, Spencer LeRoy, Chairman of the Board, noted,
"our Company will benefit greatly from Therace Risch's expertise in the areas of cyber
security, technology transformation, and foundational IT operations
and we are most grateful and pleased with her acceptance to join
us."
Including Therace Risch, ORI has
added six new, highly qualified individuals to ORI and its major
regulated insurance company subsidiaries' Boards of Directors in
the last 5 years. In the same time frame, six Directors have
departed from the Board. ORI continues to make significant progress
to provide greater diversity of talents, professions, and other
backgrounds to the Board.
About Old Republic
Chicago-based Old Republic International
Corporation is one of the nation's 50 largest shareholder-owned
insurance businesses. It is a member of the Fortune
500 listing of America's largest companies. The Company
is organized as an insurance holding company whose subsidiaries
actively market, underwrite, and provide risk management services
for a wide variety of coverages mostly in the general
and title insurance fields. Old Republic's general insurance
business ranks among the nation's 50 largest, while its title
insurance business is the third largest in its industry.
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