Fairfield-based Ohio Casualty Corp. has added two members to its board of directors: William P. Boardman and Robert A. Oakley.
Boardman, 61, a native of Columbus, Ohio, is a retired executive of Bank One Corporation. At the time of his retirement in March 2001, he served as chairman and chief executive officer of Bank One subsidiary First USA, a position he had held since 1999. At that time he also served as sole vice chairman of Bank One and was a member of the Bank One Corporation Board of Directors. Prior to 1999, he was senior executive vice president of Bank One Corporation. Boardman joined Bank One in November of 1984.
Boardman currently serves as a senior advisor to Goldman Sachs,
advising on acquisitions and structural matters primarily related to financial institutions. He is a director of Checkfree Holdings Corporation. He has been active in Visa USA and Visa International since 1994. He served as chairman of Visa USA before being chosen to chair Visa International in1998. He has recently been re-elected to an additional three-year term as chairman of Visa International and continues to serve on the Visa USA Board.
Oakley, 56, is the Arthur Shepard Executive-in-Residence, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, a post he has held since February 2003. He is the former executive vice president and chief financial officer of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company (Nationwide) and Nationwide Financial Services, Inc., a position he held since April 1995. He joined Nationwide in 1976 as financial projects manager and was named planning and controls manager at the Columbus regional office in 1979.
He returned to Nationwide’s downtown headquarters in 1982 as director of casualty/fire operations controls. In 1983, Oakley was elected associate vice president and corporate controller. He was elevated to vice president and corporate controller in 1984, and was elected senior vice president and named chief financial officer in 1993.
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