ST. LOUIS, Oct. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of
directors of Ameren Corporation (NYSE: AEE) announced today that
Catherine S. Brune, 58, president of
Allstate Protection Eastern Territory of Allstate Insurance Company
(Allstate), has been elected to the Ameren board. Allstate is a
wholly owned subsidiary of The Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) and
is based in Northbrook, Ill.
A 35-year veteran of Allstate, Brune rose rapidly through a
series of field and regional positions, where she was given some of
the company's most challenging assignments. Brune was elected
the company's youngest officer in 1986, moving into Information
Technology in the mid-1990s. In 2002, she was named senior vice
president and chief information officer of Allstate, and in
October 2010, Brune was named to her
current position. As president of the Eastern Territory, she
now oversees property/casualty operations in 23 states and
Canada for Allstate, a Fortune 100
company and the nation's largest publicly held personal lines
insurer. Brune is regularly recognized for her achievements. Over
the past few years, she has been named Chief Information Officer of
the Year by The Executives' Club of Chicago and has been recognized by a number of
prestigious industry publications for her leadership and
performance.
"Cathy Brune brings a wealth of
experience serving as a creative and motivating leader of a large
and complex company. She has an extensive track record of
operational innovation and of successfully moving an organization
through change. In addition, she offers a keen understanding of how
to use technology to increase operational efficiency and improve
performance," said Ameren Chairman, President and Chief Executive
Officer Thomas R. Voss.
A resident of Lake Forest,
Ill., Brune earned a bachelor of arts degree in management
from the University of South Carolina.
She and her husband are parents of a son and a daughter.
Brune currently serves on the board of the Chicago and USA Junior Achievement. She is a current
member of The Chicago Network—an organization of Chicago's most distinguished professional
women. She is a former member of the boards of the United Way and
the Akron, Ohio Urban League. In
2008, she was selected as a member of the U.S. presidential
delegation to the Northern Ireland Investment Conference to support
that country's developing industry sectors.
With assets of $23 billion, Ameren
serves approximately 2.4 million electric customers and almost one
million natural gas customers in a 64,000 square mile area of
Missouri and Illinois. Ameren owns a diverse mix of
electric generating plants strategically located in its Midwest
market with a generating capacity of more than 16,500
megawatts.
SOURCE Ameren Corporation