Deborah Stone, FCAS, MAAA, has been elected chair to the American Mensa Board of Directors. Stone has been a member of Mensa, the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world, for more than 31 years and has previously served as regional vice chair for the organization. Stone is owner of Stone Business & Risk Consulting LLC. She worked at the State of New Hampshire Insurance Department as director of financial regulation. Stone also serves on the executive committee of Mensa International.
Paul B. LeStourgeon, FCAS, MAAA, has joined Cincinnati Financial Corporation as managing director, head of reinsurance analytics for the company’s reinsurance-assumed initiative, Cincinnati Re. In this role, LeStourgeon will drive the reinsurance-assumed actuarial and catastrophe modeling analytics. He has previously held positions at ACE Group and Towers Watson.
Kim Garland, FCAS, has joined State Auto Financial Corporation as senior vice president, standard lines. Garland will be responsible for all personal lines business, including farm and ranch, as well as small commercial business. Garland was most recently chief product officer of AIG’s consumer division. He previously helped lead the restructuring of United Guaranty, AIG’s mortgage insurance company, as its COO and later CEO.
PartnerRe Ltd. has appointed Charles Goldie, FCAS, CEO of PartnerRe Global. Most recently serving as deputy CEO of PartnerRe Global, Goldie joined the company in 2002 as head of the U.S. Specialty Lines portfolio and in 2009 was named head of risk management and reserving. Prior to joining PartnerRe, Goldie worked for Gerling Global Reinsurance Corporation of America as head of casualty underwriting and for Milliman as a consulting actuary.
CAS Past President W. James (Jim) MacGinnitie, FCAS, MAAA, (1979-1980) will serve as its first senior property-casualty fellow for the American Academy of Actuaries. MacGinnitie will communicate to the public and to public policymakers the organization’s work on casualty actuarial issues. MacGinnitie retired in 1999 after serving as senior vice president and chief financial officer of CNA Financial.
Bret Parmenter, FCAS, MAAA, has rejoined Pinnacle Actuarial Resources Inc. as a consulting actuary in the Chicago office. Parmenter has over ten years of experience in the property-casualty practice area and has considerable experience with both primary commercial insurance and reinsurance. He has extensive experience with stochastic models along with various capital allocation procedures and portfolio and large account profitability analyses.
The Canadian Institute of Actuaries appointed Craig A. Allen, FCAS, FCIA, chair of the CIA Actuarial Evidence Committee, which represents the 85 actuaries in Canada who provide expert testimony in personal injury litigation and marital breakdown proceedings. Allen is the first FCAS to lead the committee in its 35-year history. He is senior consultant for Commonwealth Research Group in Brookline, Massachusetts.
