Experience
Senior Director Risk Management, Safe-Guard ProductsFebruary 2021 to Present
- Lead Safe-Guard’s Claim Analytics, Captive Consulting, and Actuarial Reserving departments.
- Advise external clients, such as Toyota and GM Financial Services, on emerging warranty and claim trends.
- Provide captive consulting, including pricing and reserving services, to unaffiliated reinsurers.
- Founded Claim Analytics team and drove multi-million dollar cost savings in the first 18 months of team creation.
- Manage $1 billion in warranty liabilities for Safe-Guard affiliated companies.
- Communicate reserving and business trends to key stakeholders including the Company’s CEO, CFO, and Board.
- Developed a claim scoring mechanism that serves as the foundation of Safe-Guard’s smart adjudication process.
- Responsible for income and cashflow forecasting and budgeting for all of Safe-Guard’s insurance operations.
AVP, Reserving, Kemper CorporationApril 2018 to January 2021
- Lead reserving for Kemper’s standard/preferred business segment and lead Kemper’s Actuarial Data department.
- Manage Actuarial Data team responsible for building and maintaining data resources for all Kemper actuaries.
- In Reserving role, responsible for $500m in liabilities on a business generating $750m in annual premium.
- Lead Kemper’s Statement of Actuarial Opinion efforts, creating SAO’s and AOS’s for 22 statutory companies.
- Present monthly business trends to business segment leaders and quarterly presentations to the senior executive team.
- Develop an algorithm to optimize reinsurance recoveries, creating multi-million dollar increase to recoveries.
- Build and monitor claim analytics and incorporate findings from that work into the Reserve study.
- Provide analytical support and leadership for Kemper’s nascent claim analytics function.
Director Reserving, Safe-Guard ProductsJune 2016 to April 2018
- Provide modeling and risk evaluation leadership as Goldman Sachs (parent) pursues sale of Safe-Guard.
- Manage actuarial staff responsible for $500m in automotive warranty liabilities.
- Estimate cash flows and provide liability duration estimations to optimize investment strategy.
Senior Actuarial Analyst (Reserving), Kemper CorporationJune 2013 to April 2014
- Lead reserving analyst for Kemper’s largest agent-channel business segment (auto and home).
Actuarial Analyst III (Reserving), Kemper CorporationDecember 2011 to June 2013
- Lead reserving analyst for Kemper’s direct-to-consumer business (auto, home, and renters).