Actu-ally: Real insight into the actuarial profession


Career Corner

So what is an actuary? What do they really do? Hear about the profession from leading actuaries and read their stories through our Actuaries in Action video series.

Want to learn more about leading actuaries? Check out the following biographies and recent work of some of today's leading risk analysts.

Jill Carpenter

FSA, MAAA, CLU, Assistant Vice President, Lincoln Financial Group

Dan Cassidy

FSA, CERA, EA, FCA, President, Cassidy Retirement Group

Jeffrey J. Drazagowski

FSA, MAAA, Medicare Actuarial, Aetna

Stephen A. Eadie

FSA, FCIA, Partner, Robertson, Eadie and Associates

Jim Forbush

FSA, EA, MAAA, Senior Vice President, Compensation and Benefit Strategies Group, AON Consulting

Sylvain Fortier

ASA, CERA, Assistant Vice President, Laurentian Bank

Annie Girard

FSA, FCIA, Assistant Vice President, Development, RGA Life Reinsurance Company of Canada

R. Dale Hall

FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, Vice President and Chief Actuary, Life/Health Operations COUNTRY Financial

Rheia Khalaf

ASA, CERA, Senior Actuarial Analyst, Ernst & Young, Inc.

Stuart Klugman

FSA, PhD, Principal Financial Group Professor of Actuarial Science, Drake University

Doug Knowling

FSA, CERA, MAAA, Senior Vice President and Chief Actuarial Officer, RGA, U.S. Division

Simeon H. Ling

FSA, MAAA, Consultant, Towers Watson

Genevieve Lussier

FCIA, FSA, Consultant, Sibson Consulting

James Miles

FSA, MAAA, Actuarial Education Consultant, Society of Actuaries

Dominique Pilote

FCIA, FSA, Consultant, Morneau Sobeco

Marie-Claude Poulin

FCIA, FSA, Consultant, Industrielle Alliance Assurance et Services Fina

Dan Pribe

FSA, MAAA, Senior Consultant, Towers Watson

Art Randolph II

FCAS, MAAA, Consultant, Towers Perrin

Sim Segal

FSA, CERA, MAAA, U.S. Leader of ERM Services, Watson Wyatt & Company

Prakash A. Shimpi

FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, Managing Principal, Towers Perrin;
CEO, Towers Perrin Capital Markets Corp.

Vincent Soucy

FSA, Actuarial Consultant, Avalon Actuarial Inc.

Eric Veletzos

FSA, CFA, EA, Investment Consultant and Actuary, Towers Watson

Steve Vernon

FSA, President, Rest-of-Life Communications

Mark Yu

FSA, CFA, FRM, MAAA, Swiss Re Life and Health North America, Vice President and
Marketing Actuary, Client Markets

Kurt Zhang

ASA, Actuarial Associate, Towers Watson