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Debra J. Perry Joins Assurant Board of Directors

Ms. Perry was elected to Assurant’s board of directors in August 2017. She is the former senior managing director for global ratings and research at Moody’s Investors Service, a unit of Moody’s Corporation.

She served as the senior business leader for the company’s Americas Corporate Finance Group and its U.S. Public Finance Group, with ratings of over $4 trillion of taxable and tax-exempt debt securities. Ms. Perry also worked in fixed income research at First Boston Corporation and in a variety of corporate lending and capital markets roles at Chemical Bank.

She currently serves on the boards of Genworth Financial Inc., The Sanford C. Bernstein Fund and Korn/Ferry International, and has previously served on the boards of MBIA Inc., CNO Financial Inc., and PartnerRe Ltd.

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