American 金融 AFG

On February 19, 2025, the Board of Directors of the company elected Craig Lindner Jr. as Director effective immediately. Mr. Lindner currently serves as the Divisional President of AFG Real Estate Investments, a position he has held since 2017. In this role, he manages the Company's portfolio of apartments, resort and marina properties and other commercial real estate, in addition to its extensive portfolio of commercial mortgages. Mr. Lindner joined the Company in 2002. Over the course of a 20-year career in real estate investing and the insurance industry, he has played a key role in overseeing the management and operations of the Company's investments in real estate equity and debt.

Mr. Lindner has been Co-Chief Executive Officer since January 2005 and served as Co-President from 1996 until June 2023. Until 2010, for over ten years, Mr. Lindner served as President, and since 2010, Mr. Lindner has served as CEO of AFG's Property and Casualty Insurance Group and has been principally responsible for the Company's property and casualty insurance operations.

On February 19, 2025, the Board of Directors of the comapany elected David L. Thompson Jr. as Director, effective immediately. David L. Thompson, Jr. became President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company's Property and Casualty Insurance Group in February 2022. Mr. Thompson has served as Executive Vice President of the group since 2019. He joined the Company in 2006 and since that time, has held various positions of increasing responsibility within the group, including Divisional President. In 2014. Mr. Thompson assumed senior reporting officer responsibilities as a Divisional Group President and was promoted in 2017 to Senior Vice President. While in these roles, he has worked directly with numerous specialty property and casualty businesses as well as several shared service functions, including reinsurance and predictive analytics.

Brian S. Hertzman became Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company in August 2020. Prior to his election, he served as Vice President of the Company since 2014 and Controller since 2012. Mr. Hertzman, a licensed certified public accountant (inactive), joined AFG in 1991 and has held positions of increasing responsibility within the Company's finance and accounting areas during his over 30 year tenure. As Vice President and Controller of AFG, Mr. Hertzman had responsibility for oversight of accounting policies and procedures in compliance with GAAP and other applicable regulations and financial reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Mark A. Weiss was elected Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Company effective December 1, 2022. He has also served as the Chief Compliance Officer since 2020. He joined AFG in 2010 and has served in various capacities, most recently as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel. Mr. Weiss was a partner at Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, practicing principally in corporate and transactional law prior to joining the Company.

Mr. Joseph, an attorney, has been an executive and a principal of various automotive retailers in the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio area known as the Joseph Automotive Group for more than five years. Since 2005, Mr. Joseph has served on the Board of Trustees of Xavier University, a private university located in Cincinnati, Ohio. He served on the board of directors of Infinity Property & Casualty Corporation, an insurance company primarily offering personal automobile insurance, which was purchased by Kemper Corp. in 2018, from 2003 to 2008, the last two years as the lead director.

Ms. Murray has over 35 years of leadership experience in the corporate world and in local and federal government. She most recently served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense/Deputy, Industrial Policy (from June 2020 to January 2021) and Director of the Office of Small Business (from March 2020 to January 2021) for the U.S. Department of Defense. During 2011 and from 2013-2020, Ms. Murray was a member of the Cincinnati, Ohio City Council serving at various times as chair or vice chair of numerous committees, including the Economic Growth and Zoning Committee, the Major Transportation and Regional Cooperation Committee, the Budget and Finance Committee and the Law and Public Safety Committee. Also, from 2000-2014, she served as founder and chief consultant of The Japan Consulting Group which provides services regarding strategies for successful business relationships with Japanese companies, both in Japan and the United States. Prior to such time, Ms. Murray spent 14 years in various positions at the Procter & Gamble Company, a leading multinational manufacturer of consumer-packaged goods, including as a manager of Global Business Development for Asia and Global Customer Business Development. In addition, Ms. Murray completed the National Association of Corporate Directors' Cyber-Risk Oversight Program and received the CERT Certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight issued by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. She is active in the community having served on the boards of several charitable organizations including Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Society and Boy Scouts of America - Dan Beard Council

Mr. Newport served as Chief Executive Officer and a Director of AK Steel Holding Corporation, a publicly-traded manufacturing company, from January 2016 until March 2020, when he retired in connection with the acquisition of AK Steel by Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. Prior to that, Mr. Newport served in other executive roles at AK Steel, including Executive Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer, as well as Controller and Chief Accounting Officer. Mr. Newport served in a variety of other leadership positions since joining AK Steel in 1985, including Vice President, Business Planning and Development, and Assistant Treasurer, Investor Relations. In addition, since 2018, Mr. Newport has been a Director of Alliant Energy Corporation, an energy-services provider that operates as a regulated investor-owned public utility holding company. He currently serves on Alliant Energy's Audit Committee, of which he previously served as Chair, and its Nominating and Governance Committee. Mr. Newport has been active in the community, having served on a variety of local and regional boards for organizations that serve the areas of academia, community development, and at-risk children and families.

Ms. Martin has served as the Executive Director of the Farmer Family Foundation in Cincinnati, Ohio since 2008. In that role, she manages the organization's philanthropic goals and objectives, and oversees grant investments. For over 20 years, Ms. Martin previously served in the banking and commercial real estate industries where she led commercial real estate, private bank, trust, and asset management groups at regional banking institutions. Ms. Martin is active in her community and currently serves on the Board of Directors of a number of charitable organizations, including Accelerate Great Schools, where she also serves as Secretary and Treasurer, Music Hall Revitalization Corporation, Teach for America Southwest Ohio and Ohio Excels.

Mr. Verity has been Chairman and CEO of Verity Investment Partners, an investment management company, since 2002, and prior to that, he was a Partner of Pathway Guidance LLC, an executive consulting firm. Previously, Mr. Verity was Chairman and CEO of ENCOR Holdings, Inc., which owned and operated several product and manufacturing companies, and he worked as an associate in corporate finance at Alex. Brown & Sons, an investment bank. He previously served on the Board of Directors of Chiquita Brands International, Inc., an international food products marketer and distributor.

Mr. Von Lehman began his career as a certified public accountant for Haskins & Sells, a predecessor of Deloitte, LLP. For more than five years until his retirement in 2007, Mr. Von Lehman served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and a director of The Midland Company, an Ohio-based provider of specialty insurance products (Midland). He served on the Board of Directors and as Chairman of the Audit Committee of Ohio National Mutual Funds until 2016 and is involved with several Cincinnati-based charitable organizations.

Mr. Nwankwo has worked in the commercial construction industry for nearly 40 years and is the Founder and President of Megen Construction Company, one of the region's premier builders. Megen Construction provides a full range of services including construction management, design/build, general contracting, estimating and program management, and was the first LEED Platinum builder in the State of Ohio. Megen Construction is a top-ten minority-owned business in Greater Cincinnati. Mr. Nwankwo is active in his community and around the world. He is the founder of NuWay Foundation, a charitable organization focused on improving the lives and economic conditions of the less fortunate in African villages through health, opportunity, pure water and education (H.O.P.E.). He is the Board Chairman of Ambassadors for Self Determination, a nonprofit organization focused on assisting regions of the world with their efforts towards self-determination of their governance. He has also served on the Board of Directors of a number of charitable organizations, including the American Red Cross (Cincinnati Chapter) and the University of Cincinnati College of Arts & Sciences.

Michelle A. Gillis was appointed Chief Human Resources Officer in 2022 and became Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of the Company in March 2013. She has responsibility for human resources, including talent management, total rewards and diversity, equity and inclusion. She also oversees corporate marketing and branding, real estate and numerous shared services areas. Since joining Great American Insurance Company in 2004, Ms. Gillis held various senior human resource management positions. Previously, Ms. Gillis spent several years in senior human resources roles in the financial services sector. Ms. Gillis holds an active accreditation as Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) from the Human Resources Certification Institute.