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Vagif Amstislavskiy
FCAS, MAAA

Vagif Amstislavskiy is the head of the research and Development department for Zurich specialties in new York. His responsibilities include developing new pricing models for specialty lines of business as well as enhancing existing products and developing new products. Prior to his current role, he served as a business unit actuary for financial lines and Professional liability lines of business. Vagif has ten years of actuarial experience providing support for professional liability lines such as medical malpractice, directors and officers, employers liability, and architects and engineers. he received his FCAS designation in 2002 and he has passed all four parts of the CPA examination. he attended Kazan University in Russia and graduated in 1997 from Brooklyn College with a B.A. in accounting.

 

Michael Belfatti
FCAS, MAAA

Michael J. Belfatti joined Validus holdings in January 2008 as executive vice president and chief actuary. Mr. Belfatti has 15 years of experience in the insurance and reinsurance industry, serving most recently as senior consultant and Philadelphia location manager of the tillinghast Insurance consulting business of towers Perrin from 2005 through 2007. Mr. Belfatti also held the position of director within the financial function of CIGNA Group Insurance in 2005. Prior to that, Mr. Belfatti was senior vice president and chief actuary of ace financial solutions from 2000 to 2004.

 

Rowen Bell
FSA, MAAA

Rowen Bell is an actuary in the chicago headquarters of hcsc, the largest non-investor-owned health insurer in the united states. his experiences prior to joining hcsc in 2007 include working in the actuarial practice of a Big 4 accounting firm, and leading the financial regulatory services function for a health insurance trade association. he has also been heavily involved in volunteer activities at the american academy of actuaries and currently serves as chairperson of the academy’s financial reporting committee. a native of canada, rowen has an MBA in accounting & finance from the University of Chicago.

 

Kim Boxell
FSA, EA, MAAA

kim Boxell is a retirement consultant in towers Perrin’s chicago office. She joined Towers Perrin in 2004 and has over twenty years of experience consulting with clients on the design, funding, accounting, and administration of qualified and nonqualified plan benefit arrangements. She has extensive experience with pension plan mergers and spin-offs, benefit administration issues, and plan terminations. Her clients include a global aerospace company, an energy company, and leading manufacturing companies. kim is a fellow of the society of actuaries and an enrolled actuary under ERISA. She is a member and chairperson of the society of actuaries/ casualty actuarial society Joint committee on actuarial Diversity.

Barry McKeown
Aasa, EA

Barry Mckeown is the towers Perrin representative on the IaBa corporate advisory council (since 2004). he is also a member of the society of actuaries/ casualty actuarial society committee on actuarial Diversity. Mr. Mckeown recently retired from towers Perrin and continues to work for them on a part-time basis. he is also a member of the Pension committee of an international organization. During his 32 year career with towers Perrin, he was a consulting actuary specializing in pensions and manager of towers Perrin’s Professional Development in Chicago. He was a principal of the firm.

 

Alistair Cammidge
FIA

Alistair Cammidge is currently an Actuary with Generali International a subsidiary of Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A, the leading Italian insurance group headquartered in Trieste. Generali International specializes in providing life assurance and savings for professional expatriates. Alistair currently works in Ireland, and has performed actuarial services in the USA, Denmark, Zimbabwe and England. He graduated from the University of Southampton (England) with a BA in Mathematics.

 

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Anne Crumlish
FSA, MAAA

Anne Crumlish is a client lead and actuary and consultant in the health Management Practice for Hewitt associates in Atlanta. She has been in the health and welfare consulting industry for over 7 years. In her role at hewitt, Anne is responsible for managing a wide variety of consulting engagements related to broad health and welfare benefits. Her work focuses on the strategy, design, and financial issues surrounding all types of benefit programs. Anne earned her Master’s in mathematics from the university of texas in austin. She is a fellow of the society of actuaries and a Member of the american academy of actuaries. Anne also represents hewitt on the corporate advisory council of the International Association of Black Actuaries.

 

Mark Freedman
FSA, MAAA

 

 

Tara Hansen
FSA, MAAA

Tara Hansen is a senior actuarial advisor with Ernst & Young in the New York office. She has worked in the life insurance industry for 14 years, specializing in advanced financial reporting topics such as principles-based reserves, fair value, IFRS and the newly emerging capital regimes. Tara is currently the editor of the SOA Financial Reporting Section’s newsletter, the Financial Reporter.

Martin R. Claire
FSA, MAAA

Martin Claire is Vice President and Actuary at the New York Life Insurance Company, where he has spent most of his career. He is their Appointed Actuary for reserves and is also responsible for capital management. Martin is a member of the AAA Life Capital Adequacy Group.

 

 

Kenneth A. Kent
FSA, FCA, EA, MAAA

Ken kent is a consulting actuary for cheiron (ki-ron), Inc. ken has nearly three decades of professional, managerial and public service experience working on challenging retirement plan assignments and public policy issues. His expertise is in managing the complex financial, regulatory, legal and administrative issues surrounding pension and defined contribution plan design and funding strategies. Ken’s primary area of practice is in pensions. his experience includes work for state retirement systems and large international multiemployer programs. ken is the chair of the Joint committee of the code of Professional conduct, a member of the council on Professionalism, a Past President of the conference of consulting actuaries, past Vice President of the Pension Practice council of the american academy of actuaries and has served on the Board of the american academy of actuaries.

 

Steve Marco
ASA, CERA, MAAA, CLU, FLMI

Steve Marco is a Vice President and Managing Actuary at Genworth Financial. His current responsibilities include being the Actuarial lead for the Economic Capital Project, the Product Optimization effort and the India outsourcing program. Other responsibilities include managing the company’s student program as well as being a liaison with a number of local universities to develop actuarial courses of study.

Steve was a Chief Actuary for two previous companies as well as a Marketing Actuary earlier in his career. He is an ASA, CERA, MAAA, CLU and FLMI.

 

Donna Jarvis
FSA, MAAA

Donna Jarvis is an assistant Vice President & actuary with the Hartford Life Insurance companies, responsible for its reinsurance risk management. In addition to her 11 years at hartford life, Donna was Vice President at aXa re life, responsible for marketing, underwriting, and managing its life and health reinsurance. Donna has represented hartford life on the american council of life Insurer’s reinsurance committee since 2004. she chaired its life reinsurance treaty sourcebook update Project during 2007 and 2008 and has just recently taken on the role of Vice chair of the reinsurance committee. Donna has participated in several reinsurance projects of the american academy of actuaries, including the reinsurance risk transfer subgroup as part of the academy’s PBr work. she speaks often to industry groups on reinsurance topics. Donna holds a B.A. in Actuarial Science from the University of Connecticut.

Michael Mulcahy
FSA, MAAA

Michael Mulcahy, FSA, MAAA Michael Mulcahy is the Assistant Vice President of Life and Annuity for Canada Life Re - where he has worked for the last 10 years. Over that period he has developed and priced a diverse range of reinsurance solutions including all types of life, annuity, health, and disability products, with a focus on financial reinsurance structures. He currently manages the pricing of annuity reinsurance and life and health capital solutions for Canada Life Re. Prior to joining Canada Life Re, Michael had 10 years of experience pricing life and annuity business with direct insurance writers. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (1998) and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (1994), and a member of the ACLI Reinsurance Committee.

 

David Terné
FCAS, MAAA

Dave terne is an assistant Vice President and actuary for the hartford financial services group, currently working in the claims arena focusing on legal operations. Dave has over 20 years of experience in Property and casualty Insurance. over his career Dave has worked in numerous lines of insurance including: Workers’ compensation, commercial auto, Business owners, Personal auto and homeowners. he has experience in the enterprise risk Management arena as well. Dave currently serves on several cas committees including the cas/soa Joint committee on Diversity and is the chairman of the cas erM Designation task force. Dave received a B.a. in Math from the university of Pennsylvania. originally from Philadelphia, Dave is also an avid Philly sports fan.