Birmingham, Ala.-based Infinity Property and Casualty Corporation announced the appointment of Harold E. Layman and Jorge G. Castro to its Board of Directors.
Layman served as president & CEO of Blount International, Inc., and in several other executive capacities with the worldwide manufacturing and NYSE company until his retirement in 2002. He remains a director of Blount and serves on the boards of several other public and private firms.
Castro is vice chairman and COO of Valenzuela Capital Partners LLC, and a private firm that manages over $1 billion of equity investments. He presently serves as a director of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, and on the Board of Directors for the New American Alliance, an organization of the nation’s most prominent Latino business leaders.
The appointment of Layman and Castro fill the two vacancies on the seven member Board created by the recent resignations of Thomas A. Hayes and Ethan Jackson.


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