Alex Shumate has been a director of Nationwide Financial, Nationwide Life and Nationwide Life and Annuity since May 2002. Mr. Shumate has been a partner of the law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. since February 1988, and Managing Partner of its Columbus office since 1991. He has been a director of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, a provider of consumer foods, since 1998 and a director of Cincinnati Bell, Inc., a provider of telecommunications products and services, since July 2005. |