Consultants

Joel Atkins
Joel has worked in the insurance industry, first at Allstate, then at Zurich, and now at can, for a total of 18 years. He has built a variety of models for each of those companies, including pricing models, economic models, and simulations for the ERM area. He has also served on a number of CAS committees.

Rick Bischoff

Peggy Brinkmann

Richard Crabb
I am ABD in Finance from Stanford University, Graduate School of Business. I have a Master’s in Statistics from Stanford, and was a double major in Applied Math and Economics from UC-Berkeley. I am a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society.

I have about twenty years of working experience, starting in Management Consulting and later with a Financial Management Startup during the dotcom boom years of 1999-2002. However, the majority of my career has been in Property/Casualty Insurance. My insurance experience started on the health side with a division of HealthNet, then moved to property/casualty with CNA, Zurich, Allstate and Sentry.

I led Quantitative Analytics and Research at Allstate, and also spent time as the state manager of Allstate New Jersey, where I was responsible for the profitable growth of more than $1 billion in premium. I created the Advanced Analtyics department at Sentry, and led that for five years before switching over to the UW-Madison School of Business to teach Business Analytics and Actuarial Science.

Rick Gorvett
Rick Gorvett, FCAS, MAAA, CERA, ARM, FRM, PhD, is Staff Actuary for the Casualty Actuarial Society. Previously, he was professor and director of the actuarial science program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was also the State Farm Companies Foundation Scholar in Actuarial Science. He has published and taught widely in insurance, actuarial science, and enterprise risk management.

Greg Hayward
Greg Hayward, FCAS, MAAA, FCIA, CERA, CPCU, is assistant vice president and actuary for State Farm®. He leads teams at State Farm that conduct actuarial research, develop pricing models, and develops various other risk models for P&C insurance. Greg has been an active member of the CAS and American Academy of Actuaries serving on various committees and task forces.

Jeff Kinsey
Jeff Kinsey, FCAS, MAAA, CSPA, CPCU, ChFC, CLU, is a Research Manager with State Farm Insurance in Bloomington, Illinois. He is responsible for the development and implementation of a variety of actuarial models with a focus on telematics modeling. Jeff has worked in the modeling and analytics space for most of his 13 year career. He received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Illinois State University and his masters in Applied Mathematics from the University of Illinois.

Nicolas Lamporelli
Nick Lamparelli is 21 year veteran of the insurance industry. Over the past 10 years, Nick has specialized in the computerized modeling of natural disasters and in modern data and analytical techniques to foster improved decision making. Nick is currently employed as an Analytics Partner and Specialist for QBE North America.

Shengde Liang
Shengde Liang is a Director at Travelers. He has a PhD in biostatistics from University of Minnesota and MS and BS in applied mathematics. He is interested in statistical model and algorithms and design of experiment (clinical trials).

Brian Mullen

Jeremy Shoemaker
Jeremy D. Shoemaker, FCAS, MAAA, CERA is currently the Senior Director of Actuarial Services at Tenet Healthcare Corporation and has previous experience in large commercial account pricing and personal auto pricing. He has served on the CAS Examination Committee at numerous levels and is currently a member of the CAS Education Policy Committee.

Ryan Thorpe

Rebecca Vessenes
Dr. Rebecca Vessenes earned her honors B.S. in Mathematics from University of Chicago and her Ph.D. from Caltech. She is an Associate of the SOA and a Certified Catastrophe Modeler, as well as having an M. Ed. in Instructional Design. Currently