Ramani ayer biography of abraham

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    • Ramani Ayer

    American-Indian business executive

    Ramani Ayer (born 27 May 1947 in Kerala, India) is an Indian-American business executive, and the CEO and chairman of The Hartford from 1997 to 2009.[1]

    Education

    Ayer earned his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1969 and his Masters and Ph.D. from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1973.[2][3] Ayer has practiced Transcendental Meditation since the 1970s.[4]

    Career

    Ayer began working for The Hartford after receiving his Ph.D. in 1973.[5]

    Ayer became vice president of HartRe, The Hartford's reinsurance subsidiary in 1983, president of Hartford Specialty Company in 1986, and senior vice president of The Hartford in 1989. He then became executive vice president of The Hartford in 1990, and president and COO of the company's property-casualty operations in 1991.[5] After being elected CEO in 1