Kelly McKeethan, FCAS, CERA, CPCU, has been appointed to the position of actuary, commercial reserving, at Liberty Mutual. Previously McKeethan has worked at Merastar Insurance Company, Southern Heritage Insurance Company, Insurance Industry Consultants, Bank of America and American Home Shield.
Rade Musulin, ACAS, MAAA, CCRMP, was recognized as the 2023 Actuary of the Year by the Australian Actuaries Institute. Musulin is an actuary with more than 40 years of experience specializing in natural perils, catastrophe risk modelling, public policy development and sustainability, and has assisted industry and government with improving their resilience and understanding of climate change. Musulin and coauthor Alp Can recently wrote “Climate Change Risk (and Opportunity) for the P&C Actuary” (AR, September-October 2023).
Jonathan Charak, FCAS, MAAA, CPL, was recognized as one of Crain’s Chicago Business 2023 Notable Leaders in Sustainability. Charak is the vice president and emerging solutions director in sustainable underwriting at Zurich North America and has been in the insurance industry since 2003. In the CAS, he served as vice chair of the Automated Vehicles Task Force that produced the report “Automated Vehicles and the Insurance Industry — A Pathway to Safety: The Case for Collaboration” (E-Forum Spring 2018). He previously volunteered for the Education Structure Implementation Task Force, International Member Services Committee and the Asia Regional Committee.
Joseph Dumas, ACAS, was appointed head of risk and analytics for Trium Cyber’s U.S.-based services division. In his new role, Dumas will oversee Trium Cyber’s risk and analytics practice while pioneering innovative approaches to utilize computer science for a deeper understanding and mitigation of cyber risks. Dumas joins Trium from Beazley Group, where he was the head of cyber data science and analytics. Prior to this role, Dumas served as a senior actuarial consultant at Ernst & Young, with expertise in modeling, predictive analytics, underwriting, pricing, and reserving and claims.
Carol Sorenson, FCAS, has been appointed vice president of analytics for Topsail Re. In the new role, Sorenson’s responsibilities will include pricing accounts and providing actuarial and pricing analytics. Before joining Topsail, Sorenson managed a reserve portfolio and team of actuaries in her role as vice president and director at Zurich North America. Collectively, she has over 17 years of primary experience in commercial lines.
Mark Kaufman, FCAS, has been appointed chief actuary for the National Programs Division of Brown & Brown, Inc. Kaufman’s career spans over 30 years across many specialty lines of business. Prior to this, he held leadership roles at industry-leading firms, including commercial lines CFO at Nationwide, chief pricing actuary at QBE NA and chief actuary at CNA for the Specialty Division.