I am an experienced actuary and machine learning expert with twenty years in the life insurance industry.

I have had a diversity of roles. Most recently, I was senior vice president at a Fortune 1000 insurance and financial services distributor, guiding analytics, machine learning, and modernization initiatives. For many years before that, I was at a large international reinsurer, where I was on the biometrics research team researching emerging underwriting tools and their applications to underwriting and pricing, mortality table construction, underwriting models using predictive analytics, and pandemic risk. I stepped away from the reinsurer for several years to take a role as chief actuary of a small life and health carrier. For the Society, I have contributed to the development of the 2008 VBT, 2015 VBT, and Pub2010 mortality tables, and I am currently the vice-chair for predictive analytics for the Society’s Individual Life Experience Committee. I hold Masters degrees in mathematics and in statistics from Tulane University in New Orleans. I am a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA), Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA), and Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst (CERA).

Despite my diverse professional background, my life is not all work. I enjoy spending time with my family and exploring new hobbies. I also enjoy taking care of myself by rowing and bodybuilding.