JLT Specialty Insurance Services Inc. has appointed Chris Najim, Ph.D., FCAS, MAAA, as senior vice president of analytics and consulting. Najim will assist clients in quantifying nontraditional risk exposures to gain a better understanding of potential gain and loss scenarios. Najim served as vice president and senior actuary at Swiss Reinsurance America Corporation, where he performed pricing analyses for regional and national treaty accounts across both property and casualty lines of business.
ICW Group Insurance Companies recently named Danny Engell, FCAS, MAAA, as vice president of enterprise strategic planning and analytics. Engell will be responsible for driving analytics and business intelligence to achieve competitive advantage across all business lines. Engell began his tenure with the company as an actuarial analyst in 2005 and has since held several leadership roles. He was previously vice president of workers’ compensation underwriting, where he assisted in overseeing branch underwriting operations.
Andrew P. Kempen, FCAS, MAAA, has joined IFG Companies as senior vice president and chief pricing actuary. Kempen will serve as advisor to various business units, working with company underwriters, claim professionals, product development specialists and unit leaders to oversee rating/pricing decisions, underwriting analyses and performance assessments. Kempen began his career at Milliman as an actuarial analyst and has since held roles at General Electric, USAA and Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd.
Andrew Doll, FCAS, has joined Capital Insurance Group as the company’s vice president and chief actuary. Doll began his career as an actuarial analyst for a Midwestern-based, national insurance company. He then joined a Wisconsin-based regional property and casualty insurance provider and was promoted from assistant vice president of specialty lines underwriting to vice president and chief actuary. Doll has since held executive management positions for national insurance carriers.
Westfield Insurance has hired James Merz, FCAS, MAAA, CPCU, to fill the new role of group actuarial and analytics leader. In this position, Merz will assume overall responsibility for the company’s analytics resource center and the actuarial department. Merz joins Westfield from Hanover Insurance Group where he served as vice president and chief actuary. He has also held a series of actuarial positions at Nationwide Mutual Insurance Companies and Great American Insurance Company. Merz has served on the CAS Board and his work has been published in the CAS E-Forum.
Grover Edie, MBA, FCAS, CERA, CPCU, ARP, ARM, has joined Huggins Actuarial Services, Inc. as a consulting actuary. Edie is responsible for economic capital modeling, ERM, loss reserve and pricing analysis, improving business performance and related activities. He is past vice president and the chief actuary for Michigan Millers Mutual, GMAC, John Deere and Erie Insurance. He was also a consultant for KPMG and started his actuarial career at ISO. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and is editor in chief of Actuarial Review.
