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Erie Insurance announces senior leadership appointments and promotions
Leaders named for key Personal Products and Experience roles; promotions announced within Law and Internal Audit ERIE, Pa., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Erie
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[{"type":"text","content":"Leaders named for key Personal Products and Experience roles; promotions announced within Law and Internal Audit\nERIE, Pa., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Erie Insurance (NASDAQ: ERIE) today announced a series of new senior leadership appointments and promotions within the company's Personal Products, Experience, Law and Internal Audit areas.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nJon Bloom has been named senior vice president, Personal Products, effective May 16. Bloom succeeds Ruben Fechner, who retired in December. Bloom is currently ERIE's vice president of personal auto. In his 19 years at the company, Bloom has held several other positions, including working as an actuary, finance business partner for Personal Lines and director of the Enterprise Program Management Office.\nBloom holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Penn State University and a master's degree in applied statistics from Bowling Green State University. He is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS), a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), a Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC), a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Chartered Financial Analyst charter holder (CFA).\nSapan Patel will return to ERIE to become senior vice president, Experience, effective May 16. Prior to departing the company for another industry leadership role in 2019, Patel served as ERIE's vice president of Customer Care Operations & Strategy. Patel's previous roles outside of ERIE have included director of operations at Firstcomp Insurance Company, consultant at Xpress Capital, director of operations/consultant at CostFirst Corp. and vice president, insurance products at Cowbell Cyber.\nPatel earned a bachelor's degree in actuary science and minor in mathematics from Bradley University and an MBA in operations from the University of Scranton. He also received his CPCU designation and Six Sigma Green Belt.\nJim Nealon has been promoted to senior vice president, Law, effective May 5. Nealon's promotion follows the appointment of Brian Bolash to executive vice president at the end of 2021. As SVP, Nealon will manage the legal staff and operational needs of the Law Division.\nNealon joined ERIE in 2010 as a senior claims attorney. In 2020, he was promoted to vice president and Corporate Law Officer. Nealon graduated from the University of Scranton with a bachelor's in political ...