Primary Job Title Board Of Director Primary Organization 
Cincinnati Financial
Gender Male
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Dirk J. Debbink, age 60, returned as a director of the company in 2012 after a four year recall to active duty with the U.S. Navy in Washington, D.C. He previously served as a director from 2004 to 2008. He is a member of the audit and compensation committees.
Mr. Debbink has served as a leader, chief executive officer and board member of
private companies, nonprofit entities and government organizations ranging from small firms typical of the company’s commercial policyholders to extremely large organizations, including Reserve Deputy Commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet (170,000 sailors) and Commander, Navy Reserve Force (64,000 sailors). While on active duty with the U.S. Navy, he served as a senior member on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations in the Pentagon. He has extensive experience in strategic planning and execution, sales, marketing, information technology for a worldwide dispersed workforce, human resources, including pension and profit-sharing plans, and government relationships at the federal level. A founder of both private and public nonoperating foundations, he understands the benefits of a long-term perspective toward serving others.
Mr. Debbink is chairman since 2007 and chief executive officer since 2012 of MSI General Corporation, a privately owned design/build construction firm. He joined MSI General in 1983, holding various positions of increasing leadership responsibility and serving as the company’s president from 1991 to 2007. From 2008 to 2012, he served in active military duty as Vice Admiral, Chief of Navy Reserve and Commander, Navy Reserve Force. Mr. Debbink joined the board of the United States Naval Institute in 2012 and chairs its finance committee. He is a board member of Fisher House Wisconsin and serves on the fund development and strategic planning committees. In 2014, he became a director of Froedtert Health System and serves on its finance committee. Mr. Debbink earned a Bachelor of Science in systems engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago. He holds professional engineer and real estate broker licenses in the state of Wisconsin and has served the Oconomowoc, Wisconsin area as a member of various community bank, hospital and other nonprofit boards.
