Im a Fighting Gamecock from South Carolina, says Catherine Brune proudly, expressing her allegiance to her alma mater, the University of South Carolina. If she is an example of the Fighting Gamecocks, they obviously have a lot of spunk, a quality that comes in handy as a member of the senior management team for one of the worlds largest insurance and financial institutions.
Brune is the chief technology officer of Allstate Insurance Group, the $26 billion insurance giant everyone knows as the Good Hands people. As CTO, she is Allstates top IT person. We dont have a CIO, she explains. Well, we do, but hes our chief investment officer.
Allstate used to have a chief information officer. When he retired a year ago and Brune stepped into his role, she and the top management team decided it would be a good time to overhaul the IT organization.
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