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Rick D. Baden

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Rick D. Baden joined the Kansas insurer’s board in 2020 and serves on its finance and audit/compliance committees. The insurer’s biography identifies him as Watco’s executive vice president and CFO and a certified public accountant. Current role and career details are confirmed in the insurer’s own public biography. External affiliations are biographical context; no outside organization roles or personal investment checks are inferred. The insurer publishes a leadership image endpoint, but a matching binary portrait was not retrievable; no substitute photograph is used.