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Matthew Winter is president of The Allstate Corporation and chief executive officer of Allstate Life Insurance Company. Winter leads the Allstate Personal Lines (APL) business. APL includes the complete range of Allstate-brand property-casualty and life insurance products offered to consumers through Allstate agencies and Allstate independent agencies. He is responsible for all business operations and distribution within APL, which includes the 15 field offices located across the United States and in Canada.

Winter joined Allstate in 2009 as president and CEO of Allstate Financial. In 2011, he moved to the property-casualty side of the business and has taken on expanded responsibilities each year since. In 2012, he was named president of Allstate Auto, Home and Agencies. In the following year, the business unit changed to Allstate Personal Lines when it expanded to include consumer household lines (boat, motorcycle, renters, etc.). In 2014, the life insurance business was added to APL and Winter was promoted to president of The Allstate Corporation and CEO of Allstate Life Insurance Company.

Before joining Allstate, Winter held numerous senior executive positions at large financial institutions and insurance providers. He served as vice chairman of American International Group, where he was responsible for a number of business units with global reach. He also served as president and CEO for AIG's American General domestic life companies, which included AIG's expansive North American life insurance operations. Earlier in his insurance career, Winter was executive vice president at Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, where he led the company's domestic insurance businesses, and vice president and chief ethics and corporate compliance officer for Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company.

Winter spent more than 12 years on active duty with the United States Army and also practiced law for several years before joining the insurance industry. He earned his bachelor of science from the University of Michigan, his juris doctor from the Albany Law School of Union University and a master of laws from the University of Virginia School of Law. He is also a graduate of Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program.

Winter is currently on the board of Feeding America, the nation's leading hunger-relief charity, and he previously served on the boards of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the Houston Food Bank, and both the Connecticut and Houston Opera Companies.