James W. Noyce CPA FCAS ASA FLMI MAAA became Chief Executive Officer of FBL and its major subsidiaries effective January 1 2007 and of Farm Bureau Mutual and its subsidiaries in February 2007. He had been Chief Financial Officer since January 1996 and Chief Administrative Officer since July 2002. Additionally from January 2000 to July 2002 he was Executive Vice President and General Manager of the property-casualty companies managed by FBL. He is chair of the CEO/CFO Certification Committee. Mr. Noyce has been employed by FBL and its affiliates since 1985. He is also a director of Berthel Fisher & Company and two of its subsidiaries. Mr. Noyce is vice chair of the Grandview College Board of Trustees and a director of Special Olympics Iowa United Way of Central Iowa the Greater Des Moines Partnership and the Mid-Iowa Council of Boy Scouts of America. In 2007 Mr. Noyce was inducted into the AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) Business and Industry Hall of Fame. |