Orlando Ashford

Orlando Ashford

Board Member at State Farm Insurance
Company Tenure: 3 years
Education:
Purdue University (B.S.) Purdue University (M.S.)
Biography:

Orlando Ashford has been a State Farm Board Member since March 2021. He is currently the Chief People Officer at Fanatics, Inc, a position he has held since October 2022. Since 2021, he has also been a member of the Board of Directors of Azamara. Since 2020, he has been Chair of the Board of Directors of Perrigo Company PLC and Member of the Board of Directors for Array Technologies Inc. From 2020-2023, he was a Member of the Board of Directors of Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Company. During 2022, he was a Member of the Board of Directors of Amerant Bank. From 2020-2022, he was a Strategic Advisor at Sycamore Partners. He was Member of the Board of Directors at ITT Inc. from 2012-2022. From 2014-2020, he was President of Holland America Line. He served at Mercer from 2012-2014, first as Managing Partner in 2012, then as 2013-2014 as President of Talent Business Segment. From 2008-2012, he was the SVP of Chief Human Resources and Communications Officer of Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. and from 2005-2008, he was the VP of Corporate Center Human Resources and Cultural Transformation at Coca-Cola. He was the Group Director for Human Resources for Eurasia and Africa for Coca-Cola from 2006-2008. From 2004-2005, he served as VP of Human Resources Strategy and Organizational Development at Motorola and from 1999-2003, he was a Principal/ Partner at Oliver Wyman.

Profile Details

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Republican Support
Democratic Support
$1,000 $3,550

Affiliated Companies

State Farm Insurance

State Farm Insurance

Key Statements

Q: “I'd like to know, Orlando, how do you define social justice?” A: “Yeah, so it's a simple definition, a hard thing to execute as we know. So having a fair balance between individuals’ ambition and society's expectation, having fair and balanced access to life and to wealth. I believe God sprinkles talent across all of us and we all get different amounts of it, but we each have a right to our own ambition relative to the talents that we've been given. And then in a just, socially just society allows us to then leverage and take advantage of those talents and hopefully to achieve our ambitions if we put in the work. And the struggle that you see in our environment today is because not everyone feels like they have a fair chance to achieve their ambition or to exercise their talents. And that's what we're trying to figure out.”

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“And I think what we're realizing or learning is that if we're really going to see movement in terms of social justice, we're going to all have to hold ourselves accountable to a more enlightened form of conversation. And we all have that responsibility.”

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