Coleman D. Ross has been a Director since August 2006. Mr. Ross serves as an independent director of Pan-American Life Mutual Holding Company and its principal subsidiaries (life and health insurance) and previously served as an independent director of NCCI Holdings, Inc. (workers compensation insurance data services) and Omega Insurance Holding Limited (property-casualty insurance and reinsurance). He practiced public accounting for 34 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers, until his retirement in 1999, where he served as an audit partner for major insurance, banking, and other financial services clients and as Chairman and Managing Partner of the Price Waterhouse US insurance practice. He then served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of two publicly-traded insurers: Trenwick Group Limited (property-casualty insurance and reinsurance) from 2000 to 2002 and The Phoenix Companies, Inc. (life insurance and asset management) from 2002 to 2003. Mr. Ross earned a degree in business administration from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and masters degrees in economics from Trinity College and financial services from The American College.  He is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in New York and North Carolina and holds the National Association of Corporate Directors designations of Governance Fellow and Board Leadership Fellow.