President and Chief Operating Officer, Allied Insurance

Kim Austen is President and Chief Operating Officer of Allied Insurance. He was named to this role in March 2009, and in it he oversees Nationwide’s Allied, Titan Insurance, Nationwide Agribusiness and Scottsdale Insurance business units.

Kim began his association with Allied in 1976 as a claims representative. He held various management positions in underwriting, becoming Regional Vice President of the Rocky Mountain Region in 1990. He was subsequently elected Regional Vice President for the Lincoln Region in 1992 and for the Des Moines Region in 1994. Kim assumed the post of Senior Vice President for Product Development in 2001. He was appointed Senior Vice President for Nationwide Commercial/Agribusiness Product & Pricing in 2003 and was named President of Allied in 2006.

Kim serves as a board member of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC). He is an advisory board member of the Emmett J. Vaughan Institute of Risk Management and Insurance affiliated with the University of Iowa’s College of Business, and a member of the Iowa Business Council. He sits on the Leadership Cabinet of the American Red Cross, Central Iowa Chapter, and serves as a member of the Chair’s Circle of the Greater Des Moines Partnership; on the Ankeny Economic Development Task Force; and as a board member of the Ankeny Community School District Foundation. He is also a board member of the Science Center of Iowa.

A graduate of the University of Nebraska, he received a bachelor of science degree in mathematics and economics, and holds the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter designation.

Allied Insurance is a property-casualty insurer established in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1929. Allied operates in 33 states through a network of independent agents with regional offices based in

Denver, Colorado; Des Moines, Iowa; Gainesville, Florida; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Sacramento, California. Allied has been a member of the Nationwide family of companies since 1998, and is responsible for Nationwide’s independent agency system.

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