Ms. Risch served as Executive Vice President and Chief Information & Technology Officer of American Electric Power Company, Inc. from July 2021 to April 2025 (Senior Vice President in that role from May 2020 to July 2021). She was previously Executive Vice President and Chief Information & Digital Officer at J.C. Penney Company and Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at COUNTRY Financial, and has roughly 10 years of direct insurance industry experience at The St. Paul Companies and COUNTRY Financial. Her expertise spans cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, technology transformation and IT operations, and she serves on Old Republic's Audit and Governance and Nominating Committees.