Title CEO Name Ramani Ayer Term 1991–2009 Employer The Hartford | Predecessor Donald R. Frahm Successor Liam E. McGee Website The Hartford | |
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Board member of American Insurance Association Education Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Drexel University, Indian Institutes of Technology | ||
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Ramani Ayer is an Indian-American business executive, and the former CEO and chairman of The Hartford.
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Education
Ayer earned his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1969 and his Masters and Ph.D. from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1973. Ayer has practiced Transcendental Meditation since the 1970s.
Career
Ayer began working for The Hartford after receiving his Ph.D. in 1973.
Ayer became vice president of HartRe, The Hartford's reinsurance subsidiary in 1983, president of Hartford Specialty Company in 1986, and senior vice president of The Hartford in 1989. He then became executive vice president of The Hartford in 1990, and president and COO of the company's property-casualty operations in 1991. After being elected CEO in 1996, he took the office of chairman and CEO of The Hartford on February 1, 1997.
In 2007, Ayer was one of three foreign-born Indian-origin executives to run a Fortune 100 company.
In June 2009, Ayer announced his retirement from The Hartford by the end of the year. He stepped down as CEO on October 1, 2009.
While CEO, Ayer served as a member of the Business Roundtable representing The Hartford. Ayer sits on the board of directors for the American Insurance Association and the Hartford Hospital while also serving as a trustee of the Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration. He serves on the boards of the Maharishi University of Management and the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, which funds the instruction of Transcendental Meditation in schools. In 2011, he was appointed to the board of directors of XL Group, a financial services company.