Dave Gonzales

Senior Vice President State Farm

Dave Gonzales is Senior Vice President for State Farm Insurance Companies in the the Great Western Zone. He joined State Farm in 1980 as an auto company trainee in the Greeley, Colorado, office, where he was promoted to employment assistant and personnel specialist in 1981 and assistant personnel manager in 1982. He moved to corporate headquarters as an employment representative in 1984. Later that year he was named personnel manager in the Tempe, Arizona, office where he became a management assistant in 1988. He was appointed assistant division manager in the Dallas, Texas, office in 1989, auto division manager later that year, and fire division manager in 1990.

Dave was named executive assistant at corporate headquarters in 1992 and was elected Deputy Regional Vice President in the Bakersfield, California, office in January 1994. He was named VP-Operations at Corporate Headquarters in 1998, and Regional Vice President in Arizona in 2000.

Dave has served on many community and higher learning institution boards. He is an alum of Southern California Leadership and is a director on the State Farm General Company board.

A native of Colorado, Dave received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley. He earned the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation in 1987.