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Mr. Brown served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of RLI Corp. (NASDAQ), a specialty insurer serving diverse niche property, casualty and surety markets from 2017 until his retirement on July 1, 2019. Prior thereto, he served RLI Corp. as its Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since 2011. Previously, he was a partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he served for ten years as its Midwest Regional Financial Services Director and led teams responsible for the banking, insurance, capital markets and investment management business sectors. Mr. Brown is a certified public accountant.

Mr. Brown currently serves on the board of directors of Prime Holdings Insurance Services, Inc. (since 2016). He also serves on the boards of directors of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Easter Seals Central Illinois. From 2004 through 2017, Mr. Brown served on the board of trustee of Illinois Wesleyan University.

Mr. Brown is a member of our Audit Committee and Enterprise Risk Committee.

Mr. Brown earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1979.