Council Bios

Van Beach, FSA (2000), MAAA., Consulting Actuary, Milliman, Wayne, Pennsylvania.
Major Fields of Professional Activity: Consulting services to companies in the Life, Health, Group and direct-marketing insurance sectors. Provide strategies and products to leverage technology to increase revenue. Current focus on operational efficiency, maximizing value of proprietary data and overcoming administrative restrictions that limit unique marketing campaigns and product designs.
Publications: "Hidden Costs of Administering Complex Products," Product Matters, November 2003; "True Cost of Exceptions," DI/LTC Newsletter, Spring 2004; other contributions to Society of Actuaries and industry publications.
Society of Actuaries Activities: Meeting Panelist and Moderator (2003, 2004); Co-Chair of the Operations Track for the SOA LTCI Conference (2004, 2005).
Other Professional Activities: Industry meetings speaker. Twin Cities (MN) Actuarial Club

Ian Duncan, FSA (2002), FIA (1982), FCIA, MAAA., Partner, Lotter Actuarial Partners, New York, New York.
Major Fields of Professional Activity: Consulting services to companies in the health, group and direct-marketing insurance sectors. Current areas of focus include data mining, claims-based underwriting and campaign
Society Activities: Panelist and Moderator, SOA meetings (1988, 1999, 2002-4); contributor to Society and Industry publications, Council, Non-traditional Marketing Section. Member, Health Benefits Systems Practice Advancement Committee (Chair; External Relations Cttee). Council member, Smaller Consulting Firm Section, 2002- . (Founding editor, "The Independent Consultant").
Other Professional Activities: Research Associate, Healthcare Delivery Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Quality & Research Cttee, DMAA.
Publications: "Measuring the Total Cost of Lost Time," with Jonathon Crane, Ph. D. in Janet R. Douglas: Managing Workers' Compensation , John Wiley, (1996); "Sales Force Automation in the Health Insurance Industry," On Health, (Spring 1998); "A Claims-based Prediction Model for Targeting members of Managed Care Organizations" (with Henry Dove, Ph.D. and Arthur Robb, Ph.D.) American Journal of Managed Care (May, 2003) "Population Risk Management: Reducing Costs and Managing Risk in Health Insurance," (with Arthur Robb, Ph.D.) in Arnold Shapiro, ed. "Intelligent and other Computational Techniques in Insurance," Techniques for the Insurance Industry (World Scientific 2003).

Christopher H. Hause, FSA (1986), MAAA, CLU, President, Hause Actuarial Solutions, Inc., Overland Park, Kansas.
Major Fields of Professional Activity: Credit insurance, software development.
Society Activities: Co-Chairperson, Marketing & Distribution Section; Chairperson, Credit Insurance Experience Committee; performed studies and coauthored papers on Credit Morbidity and Credit Mortality; frequent speaker and panelist at meetings.

Brian L. Louth, FSA (1989), FCIA, Vice President, RGA Life Reinsurance Company of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Major Fields of Professional Activity: Development of traditional and non-traditional reinsurance solutions for clients of RGA in Canada. Experience with association and affinity business providing group benefit solutions in sponsored markets, actuarial and financial management for individual retail business including product design and pricing of life insurance and savings products, product anddistribution alliances, financial reporting and asset liability management.
Society Activities: Member, Actuarial Education Working Group, 2002; Examination Chairperson, Part 8-Individual, 2000-present; Examination Vice-Chairperson, I440C and I440U, 1996-1999; Examination Committee member, 1991-1995.
Other Professional Activities: Marketing & Distribution Council member 2002- present, CIA Investment Practices Committee, 1993-1996. CIA Program Committee, 1994-1995. CIA Economic Assumptions Committee, 1995. Moderator and presenter at various industry related meetings.

Leonard Mangini, FSA (2002), MAAA, CLU, RHU, REBC, ChFC, FALU, FLMI, Vice-President, Platinum Underwriters Reinsurance, Inc., New York, NY..
Major Fields of Professional Activity: Marketing, design, pricing, financial reporting and underwriting of customized reinsurance solutions for life and health products sold through various marketing channels. Interested in prudent underwriting for bank lobby and Internet channels. Experience at a reinsurer, a direct carrier and two consulting firms including: reinsurance on the buy and sell sides; life and annuity product development; medical underwriting; mergers and acquisitions; cash-flow testing; GAAP, statutory and tax accounting; market conduct litigation and demutualization support.
Society of Actuaries Activities: Exam 5 Course Committee: Grading, 2002, Exam Writing, 2003-2004; Non-Voting "Friend" of the Marketing & Distribution Section Council, 2002-2004.
Other Professional Activities: Annual Meeting Session Coordinator, Actuarial Society of Greater New York, 2003-2004. Volunteer, Actuarial Society of Greater New York, Continuing Education Committee.

Nancy A. Manning, ASA (1984), MAAA, Associate Actuary, AEGON Direct Marketing Services, Plano, Texas.
Major Fields of Professional Activity: Product development, systems and marketing support for life, accident/health, and credit lines of business, as well as non-insurance product lines. Experienced in analysis of Marketing & Distribution activities. Support compliance issues for the various lines of business.
Society Activities: Member of the Marketing & Distribution Section Council, 1992-1995 (Secretary-Treasurer, 1994-1995); Editor of NewsDirect, 1992-1995; Editorial Board member, 1996-1999; Organizer, leader, and/or recorder for various meeting sessions.

Juliet R. Sandrowicz, FSA (2000), MAAA, Actuary, New York Life Insurance Co., Tampa, Florida.
Major Fields of Professional Activity: Financial projections, product development, experience studies, systems support, and valuation for direct response line of business. Experienced in analysis of direct response marketing activities.
Society of Actuaries Activities: Member of Course 7 Examination Committee since 2002.

Robert P. Stone, FSA, MAAA, Assistant Vice President & Associate Actuary, American United Life Insurance Company, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Major Fields of Professional Activity: Product development of life and annuity products;
Publications: "Variable Annuity Guarantees: More Than Just Acronyms" (The Actuary, January 2003); "GMDB Pricing: Comparing a Lognormal and a Two-Regime Lognormal Model" (Risk and Rewards, October, 2002); "The Truth About Reinsurance" (small talk, June 2002); "Time to Adjust to the Convergent Playing Field" (National Underwriter, May 27, 2002).
Society Activities: Planning committee for 2003 Product Development Actuary Symposium; Marketing & Distribution Section Council (2002-2003); Member of Equity Modeling and Pricing for Risk subgroups of Risk Management Task Force; Speaker/Moderator for session "Standalone vs. Integrated with Brick and Mortar Marketing Initiatives" sponsored by Marketing & Distribution Section at 2002 spring meeting.
Other Professional Activities: Vice President of Indianapolis Actuarial Club, 2002-2003. Coordinator of the Math Pentathlon program for a local school funded through a grant from The Actuarial Foundation, 2000-2002.