Brent R. Porteus is a managing partner of the family-owned farming and
agricultural business, Blair Porteus and Sons in Coshocton County, Ohio.
Porteus was elected to the Nationwide board in 2011, and also serves as board
chairman of Farmland Mutual Insurance Company and Nationwide Agribusiness
Insurance Company. In 2013, he was appointed by Governor John Kasich to
serve a 9-year term on The Ohio State University Board of Trustees. Porteus has
held leadership positions with the Ohio Corn Growers Association, Ohio Corn
Marketing Program and the National Corn Growers Association.
Porteus served as president of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation from 20082011 and held many leadership roles within the organization. He also represented
the farm bureau on international trade missions.
Catherine Wilkes Delligatti is an attorney with Bowles Rice, specializing
in tax and corporate planning and advising, tax controversey work and
municipal work.
A graduate of the WVU College of Law, Delligatti also serves as counsel
to the City of Martinsburg Historic Preservation Review Commission, the
City of Martinsburg Board of Zoning Appeals, assists the Martinsburg City
Prosecutor and is the Town Prosecutor for the Corporation of Shepherdstown,
West Virginia.
Delligatti will be presenting information on taxation of landowner’s mineral
rights for active and reserve accounts and the income tax ramifications on the
leasing of oil and gas rights.
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