Crawford Named as Grinnell Mutual President and CEO
Steve Crawford has been named President and Chief Executive Officer at Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company located in Grinnell, Iowa. For the past two years, Crawford has served as the company’s Chief Operating Officer.
During Crawford’s 34-year career at Grinnell Mutual he has served in a variety of roles: West Central Illinois marketing representative, assistant marketing director, assistant vice president of reinsurance underwriting, regional vice president, and senior vice president of the Reinsurance Division.
He holds a Business Administration degree from Iowa State University. He also holds the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation from the American Institute for Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters and the Associate in Reinsurance (ARe) designation from the Insurance Institute of America.
Crawford belongs to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, Society of Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters, and is a charter member of the Grinnell CPCU sub-chapter. He served as NAMIC Underwriting Committee chair from 1999-2003 and received the NAMIC Merit Society Award in 2000.
Locally, has served as treasurer of the Grinnell Community Day Care Center, president of the Grinnell Golf and Country Club, and on the board for Patriot Bank. He currently serves on the Poweshiek Iowa Development Board.
Crawford replaces Dan Agnew, who retired after 19 years as Grinnell Mutual’s president and CEO.
A native of Ames, Iowa, Crawford and his wife, Pat, live in Grinnell, Iowa and are the parents of three children, Matt, Joe, and Steffanie.
Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company (grinnellmutual.com) is the 134th largest property-casualty insurance company in the United States and the largest primary farm mutual reinsurer in North America. In its 101st year of business, Grinnell Mutual reinsures 294 affiliated farm mutual companies in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. An “A” rated company by leading industry rating service, A.M. Best, Grinnell Mutual also writes direct lines of insurance through a network of over 1,600 independent insurance agents.