Jess Merten

President, Property-Liability, Allstate - the nation's largest publicly held personal lines insurer. Passionate, customer focused and purpose driven leader that believes in the power of motivating great people to accomplish extraordinary things. Other career highlights include: - Chief Financial Officer with broad experience including capital management, M&A transactions, activist defense and shareholder engagement. Relentlessly focused on creating value for shareholders - P&L Leadership as President, Allstate Financial Products, which included Allstate's Health and Benefits segment, life insurance and retirement solutions, and a disruptive direct to consumer digital life insurance venture. Led 3,500+ employees through strategic shifts and major divestitures - Chief Risk Officer, building on Allstate's strong risk and return foundation to better understand risk, quantify it and develop an effective framework to optimize enterprise return - Finance leadership roles including Corporate Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of Allstate Financial - Led Corporate Strategy as Treasurer - PwC Assurance partner focused on serving the financial services industry, primarily insurers, in life, health and property casualty business - 2019 Fellow of CEO Perspectives, a program designed for professionals reporting directly to the CEOs of Fortune 500 and select growth companies to accelerate professional development and broaden their perspectives so they can better support the CEO and help to navigate challenges and opportunities with strategic agility and confidence