APPALACHIAN INSURANCE - Key Persons


Brian W. Bolash - Chief Legal Officer, EVP

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President
  • General Counsel
  • Secretary

H.O. Hirt - Founder

Job Titles:
  • FOUNDER
  • Our Founder
Our founder H.O. Hirt raised the letters ERIE out of the word S ER v I c E to remind us of the high bar we set for ourselves. What's our secret? It's our agents and employees who follow the Golden Rule - treating others as you would want to be treated.

J. Ralph Borneman Jr.

Job Titles:
  • CIC, CPIA 5, 7C President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, Body - Borneman Insurance & Financial Services, LLC
J. Ralph Borneman Jr., CIC, CPIA 5, 7C President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, Body-Borneman Insurance & Financial Services, LLC

Jonathan Hirt Hagen

Jonathan Hirt Hagen, J.D.** 1, 3, 4C, 6, 7 Co-Trustee, H.O. Hirt Trusts; Vice Chairman of the Board of Erie Indemnity Company

LuAnn Datesh

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Olympus Energy, LLC

Thomas B. Hagen

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board of Erie Indemnity Company and Chairman, Custom Group Industries
*As the non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors, Thomas B. Hagen serves, ex officio, as a non-voting member of the Audit Committee and a voting member of all other committees, except the Risk Committee. **As the non-executive Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, Jonathan Hirt Hagen serves, ex officio, as a voting member of the Risk Committee. Committee membership and chair appointments are effective April 20, 2021.