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Los Angeles, CA-based Farmers Insurance has Promoted Shohreh Abedi as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Today, the companies comprising the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies make up one of the country`s largest insurers of vehicles, homes and small businesses and provide a wide range of other insurance and financial services products. Farmers is proud to serve more than 10 million households with more than 20 million individual policies across all 50 states through the efforts of over 50,000 exclusive and independent agents and nearly 24,000 employees. The Farmers Exchanges are three reciprocal insurers (Farmers Insurance Exchange, Fire Insurance Exchange and Truck Insurance Exchange) owned by their policyholders, and together with their subsidiaries and affiliates comprise the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies. Farmers Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries, in their capacity as attorneys-in-fact, provide administrative and management services to the Farmers Exchanges.
About the Person
Shohreh Abedi is Chief Information Officer at Farmers Insurance, a position she has held since 2010. In her current role, she manages a team of several thousand IT professionals and is responsible for delivering all IT services to Farmer’s business units. She also manages sourcing partners who deliver all local IT services. For the past two years, she led planning and execution of two organization-wide IT initiatives: migrating Farmers’ infrastructure to CSC and transforming of Farmers’ claim program. Since joining Farmers in 2007 as Vice President of Claims IT, she has also trained and retooled staff on cutting-edge IT-delivery methodology and implemented an industry-leading service-oriented architecture that simplifies new business acquisition and adaptation of changing markets. Before joining Farmers, she was at Ernst & Young’s Customer Relationship Management practice. Later, she was Vice President, Financial Services Sector at Cap Gemini. Her IT experience includes more than 25 years in both private and public sector.
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