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W. Kim Austen is president and chief operating officer (retired) at Nationwide. He led the former Allied Group, which included responsibility for Nationwide’s Allied Insurance, Scottsdale Insurance, Harleysville Insurance, Nationwide Agribusiness, and Titan Insurance business units. Austen serves on the board of directors of the United Way of Central Iowa and the Grand View University Board of Trustees. He received a B.S. degree in mathematics from UNL in 1977, and holds the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter designation. A native of Fairbury, Nebraska, he is hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences.