HanoverInsurance Group Inc. has appointed executive vice presidentand CFO.

He will join the company Oct. 1 as executive vice president andsenior finance officer and will assume the role of CFO on or about Nov. 4.Farber joins the company after five years with American International Group Inc., where he served asdeputy CFO and as chief risk officer for the company's commercial and consumerbusinesses.

Farber succeeds Eugene Bullis, who has served as executive vicepresident and interim CFO at Hanover since October 2015, following theunexpected death of the company's CFO. Bullis will continue with the companyuntil Nov. 11.