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General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer
STAR Financial Group Inc.
Casey Cox is a master of multitasking, serving as both general counsel and chief administrative officer of Fort Wayne-headquartered STAR Financial Group. As if that weren’t enough, he also serves as corporate secretary to the board of directors of STAR Financial Bank, the company’s wholly owned banking subsidiary. And this is just the latest stop on what’s so far been an eclectic career path. After law school he spent more than a decade in private practice, focusing on general business transactions and real estate matters. From 2013 to 2016, he served in the Indiana House of Representatives. He began his career at STAR in February 2018 as general counsel and corporate secretary. In 2022, he also became chief administrative officer, giving him primary responsibility for all the company’s legal matters plus oversight of compliance, audit, fraud, physical security, facility and board governance matters. His work covers everything from wills, trusts and estates to real estate acquisitions and dispositions and also runs the gamut of high-level corporate and business matters. Cox, however, doesn’t mind getting into the trenches. “I usually hire outside counsel for litigation matters, but occasionally I will appear directly on Star’s behalf in certain minor matters, if the time and cost of hiring outside counsel doesn’t make sense,” he said.
Givebacks: volunteer, Regional Chamber of Northeast Indiana; Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society; SCAN, Inc. (now known as Iris Family Support Center); and Fort Wayne Children’s Choir; past member, Fort Wayne Redevelopment Commission; former trustee, Indiana University
First job: assembled anatomical skeletons at a factory that were sold to chiropractors
Mentors: Jonathan Nusbaum, who mentored him in private practice and died nearly a decade ago of brain cancer. “The time he took with me, even while battling illness, to ensure I was learning or had taken lessons away from successes and failures, impressed upon me the importance of doing the same for young people who enter my life in some way,” Cox said.
Self-reflections: Being in the workforce has taught Cox that he’s risk-averse, he said, “but also that risk is essential and should be understood, mitigated and accepted.”
Wish he’d known: “All of the acronyms in banking, such as FDIC, DFI, CFPB, CECL, ALLL, CRA and CMS, etcetera, to name a few. I’ve been in banking for nearly a decade and I’m still learning new ones.”
Favorite de-stressors: “Completing a long run or leaving the gym on a summer morning while the sun is just coming up. Those are blissful experiences.”•
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