The Allstate Corporation Board of Directors
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F. Duane Ackerman (Age 67) Director since 1999 Chairman Emeritus of BellSouth Corporation, a communication services company, from December 2006 until his retirement in April 2007. Mr. Ackerman served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BellSouth from mid-2005 through 2006, when it was merged into AT&T. He previously served BellSouth as Chairman, President and CEO from 1998 through mid-2005 and as President and CEO from 1997 to 1998. Mr. Ackerman is also a director of The Home Depot, Inc. and United Parcel Service, Inc., and serves on the audit committee of Home Depot. Mr. Ackerman is a past chairman of the national Council on Competitiveness, as well as a past chair of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. |
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Robert D. Beyer (Age 50) Director since 2006 Chairman of Chaparal Investments LLC, a private investment firm and holding company which he founded in 2009. Chaparal manages a diverse portfolio of operating, financial, and real estate assets. From 2005 to 2009, Mr. Beyer served as Chief Executive Officer of The TCW Group, Inc., a publicly traded global investment management firm. Mr. Beyer previously served as President and Chief Investment Officer from 2000 until 2005 of Trust Company of the West, the principal operating subsidiary of TCW. Mr. Beyer is also a director of The Kroger Co., where he chairs the Financial Policy Committee and is a member of the Compensation Committee, and in the past five years, was a director of Société Générale Asset Management, S.A. and The TCW Group, Inc. |
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W. James Farrell (Age 67) Director since 1999 From May 1996 until his retirement in May 2006, Mr. Farrell served as Chairman of Illinois Tool Works Inc., a manufacturer of highly engineered fasteners, components, assemblies, and systems, with operations in 54 countries and over 65,000 employees. He served Illinois Tool Works as Chief Executive Officer from September 1995 until August of 2005. Previously, he served in many leadership positions at Illinois Tool Works, including a number of general manager and vice president positions. He is also a director of the Abbott Laboratories, 3M Company, and UAL Corporation. |
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Jack M. Greenberg (Age 67) Director since 2002 Chairman of The Western Union Company, a money transfer service firm, since September 2006. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of McDonald’s Corporation from May 1999 until his retirement in 2002. Mr. Greenberg is also currently a director of Hasbro, Inc., Innerworkings, Inc., and Manpower, Inc., as well as Western Union, and in the past five years served as a director of Abbott Laboratories and First Data Corporation. His civic involvement includes service on the boards of DePaul University, the Institute of International Education, The Field Museum, Chicago Metropolis 2020, and the Advisory Committee of the Partnership for New Communities. |
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Ronald T. LeMay (Age 64) Director since 1999 Chairman of Aircell Corporation since July 2006, Mr. LeMay also served as its Chief Executive Officer from July 2009 to February 2010. Mr. LeMay previously served as Industrial Partner of Ripplewood Holdings, LLC, a private equity fund, from October 2003 until February of 2009, and as Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Last Mile Connections, Inc. from September 2005 and October 2006, respectively, until August 2009. Both Aircell and Last Mile Connections [are/were] Ripplewood Holdings portfolio companies. Mr. LeMay also has been Chairman of October Capital since February 2000, and Chairman of Razorback Capital since August 2006. Both companies are private investment companies. He serves in various board and executive capacities in the portfolio companies of October Capital and Razorback Capital. Mr. LeMay is also President and Managing Director of OpenAir Ventures, a venture capital firm he formed in September 2008 to make early stage investments in wireless communications companies. Previously, Mr. LeMay served as Representative Executive Officer of Japan Telecom from November 2003 until the sale of the company in July 2004 and as President and Chief Operating Officer of Sprint Corporation from October 1997 until April 2003. He is also a director of Imation Corporation. |
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Andrea Redmond (Age 53) Director since 2010 Independent consultant with over twenty years of experience providing executive recruiting, succession planning, and talent management services. Previously, Ms. Redmond was Managing Director and Co-Head of the CEO/Board Services Practice at Russell Reynolds Associates Inc., a global executive search firm, and led the firm’s insurance practice for more than ten years. Ms. Redmond’s civic involvement includes service as a director of Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and LivingWell Cancer Resource Center. |
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H. John Riley, Jr. (Age 69) Director since 1998 Chairman of Cooper Industries, Ltd., a diversified manufacturer of electrical products, tools, and hardware, from April 1996 until his retirement in February 2006. Mr. Riley previously served Cooper Industries as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from April 1996 until May 2005 and as Chairman, President and CEO from April 1996 until August 2004. He is also a director of Baker Hughes Incorporated and Westlake Chemical Corporation. He serves on the audit committee of Westlake Chemical Corporation. |
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Joshua I. Smith (Age 69) Director since 1997 Chairman and Managing Partner since 1999 of The Coaching Group, a management consulting firm. Previously, he was founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The MAXIMA Corporation, a twenty-year old consultancy that achieved a national reputation as one of the top African-American owned and fastest-growing firms in the United States. President George H.W. Bush appointed him as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on Minority Business Development from 1989 to 1992, as a member of the Executive Committee of the 1990 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations, and as a director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from 1992 to 2002. He served as a Member of the Board of the Maryland Small Business Development Finance Authority and was Chairman of a special Task Force on Minority Business Reform for the Governor of the State of Maryland. He has served on the National Fund Raising Campaign Committee of the NAACP, and was Chairman of the National Urban Coalition. He is also a director of Caterpillar Inc., Comprehensive Care Corporation, and FedEx Corporation. |
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Judith A. Sprieser (Age 56) Director since 1999 Chief Executive Officer of Transora, Inc., a technology software and services company from September 2000 until March 2005. Previously, Ms. Sprieser served as an Executive Vice President of the Sara Lee Corporation from 1987 to 2000, and held a number of roles, including Chief Executive Officer of Sara Lee’s Food Group and Chief Financial Officer for the Sara Lee Corporation. She is also a director of Adecco SA, IntercontinentalExchange, Inc., Royal Ahold NV, and USG Corporation. In the past five years Ms. Sprieser served as a director of Reckitt Benckiser plc, and remains a director of its successor company, Reckitt Benckiser Group plc. |
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Mary Alice Taylor (Age 60) Director since 2000 Mrs. Taylor is an active independent business executive. During her career she served in senior executive positions with Fortune 100 companies until her retirement in 2000. She has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Webvan Group, Inc. and as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of HomeGrocer.com. Prior to that, she served as Corporate Executive Vice President of Citicorp and Senior Vice President at FedEx Corporation. Mrs. Taylor has served on several major public company boards. Currently, she sits on the board of Blue Nile, Inc., where she has been lead independent director since 2004, is the Chairperson of the Nominating and Governance Committee, and is a member of the Audit Committee. |
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Thomas J. Wilson (Age 52) Director since 2006 Chairman since May 2008, and President and Chief Executive Officer of Allstate since January 2007. Mr. Wilson previously served as President and Chief Operating Officer from June 2005 until January 2007. Mr. Wilson also served as President of Allstate Protection from 2002 to 2006, and as Chairman and President of Allstate Financial from 1999 to 2002. He joined Allstate in 1995 from Sears, Roebuck and Co., where he was vice president of strategy and analysis. Mr. Wilson is a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. His civic involvement includes service as a board member of Rush University Medical Center, the Museum of Science and Industry, and Catalyst, a non-profit organization working to advance women in business. |
