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New York, -based Guardian-Life-Insurance Retired Tracy Rich as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
About the Company
Guardian has been helping people protect their futures and secure their lives for more than 150 years. Every day, we serve approximately 27 million people through a range of insurance and financial products. We help people and their families pursue financial security and well-being in life, health, and wealth. We help companies take care of their employees. And we help people recover and thrive after unexpected loss. From our founding in 1860, when a community of immigrants joined together to insure and protect their businesses and families, doing the right thing for our policyholders and customers has guided everything we do. Our dedication to customers has helped us remain one of the most highly rated in client satisfaction and financial strength. And as one of the largest mutual insurance companies, we know what matters most: putting the needs of our customers first. Because everyone deserves a Guardian.
About the Person
Tracy L. Rich is Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, responsible for leading all of Guardian’s legal, government relations, regulatory, compliance, and internal audit functions, in addition to all corporate governance activities. He joined Guardian in 2009 after more than 30 years of public and private sector legal experience. Mr. Rich was formerly with The Phoenix Companies, Inc., which he joined in 2000 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel, and was later promoted to Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. During his more than nine years with Phoenix he oversaw all legal, government and regulatory affairs, and compliance matters, and worked closely with the company’s Board of Directors on corporate governance initiatives. Before Phoenix, Mr. Rich worked for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company as Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel. He worked as an Associate at a major Connecticut law firm after starting his career as a trial attorney in the Chief Counsel’s Office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) where he litigated numerous cases in U.S. Tax Court. Mr. Rich received his B.A. in Political Science from Union College, graduating cum laude; his J.D. from New York University School of Law; and his LL.M in Taxation from Boston University. He is a member of the United States Tax Court, the Federal District Courts of New York (Southern and Eastern Districts) and Connecticut, the New York State Bar, and the Connecticut State Bar and the Massachusetts State Bar. Additionally, he is the past President of the Association of Life Insurance Counsel and a former Adjunct Professor of Taxation at the University of Connecticut Law School.
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