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Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
The Allstate Corporation

Don Civgin is senior vice president and chief financial officer for The Allstate Corporation. He is also a member of the Allstate senior management team.

As CFO, Civgin is responsible for aligning Allstate's finance and capital structures to the corporation's business strategies.

Civgin was previously at OfficeMax, where he had been executive vice president and chief financial officer since 2005.

Civgin began his career in 1986 at Itel Corporation, where he eventually became vice president and treasurer. He was responsible for capital structure activities for the corporation's multibillion dollar balance sheet. In 1995, he joined Alliant Foodservice as vice president and treasurer when the company was acquired from Kraft by Clayton, Dublier and Rice.

In 1997, Civgin was named senior vice president, finance, of Montgomery Ward as part of a new management team brought in by GE Capital Corporation, the majority owner. Later he was promoted to senior vice president, merchandise operations. Civgin served as senior vice president, finance and chief financial officer of General Binding Corporation from early 2002 to 2005, as that company went through a successful transformation and turnaround, culminating in a merger in 2005 with Acco Brands.

Civgin received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance from the University of Illinois in Champaign and an MBA from the University of Chicago.