President of Grange Insurance to Retire

Columbus, Ohio-based Grange Insurance announced that Phil Urban, president and CEO, will retire in February 2010. Urban will remain with the company in his current position through the transition to a replacement.

Urban joined Grange in 1999. Since that time, the company’s geographic footprint has more than doubled, and revenues have grown from $716 million to $1.35 billion, with more than $2 billion in assets. Urban introduced the company’s Ease of Doing Business (EODB) concept, a guiding force in the company’s push to enhance products, partnerships and technology.

Urban worked to positively influence the communities where Grange operates, a company and a personal philosophy for him. His leadership led to the building of the Grange Insurance Audubon Center, which is slated to open this summer in downtown Columbus.

He has also overseen the physical expansion of Grange in Columbus with the building of a 240,000 square-foot addition to its corporate headquarters. Other community leadership roles for Urban over the past 10 years include serving as treasurer of the Downtown Development Commission, chair of the United Way Leading Edge campaign, chairman for Experience Columbus and secretary-treasurer of the Columbus Zoo.

Grange Mutual Casualty board chairman Michael V. Parrott said Grange will be looking at internal and external candidates in its search for Urban’s replacement.

Source: Grange Insurance, www.grangeinsurance.com