Before McCausland went to work for Nationwide, he was a vice president at Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Springfield, Mass. He also spent eight years at The Phoenix Companies Inc., Hartford, and 11 years at Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, a company that was acquired by MassMutual.
McCausland has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Wheaton College and a master’s degree in business from the University of Hartford. He is chairman of the Investment Forum of the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation, London.