Mr. Carlson is a Consultant with Pinnacle Actuarial Resources, Inc., in the Upper Arlington, Ohio office. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Oregon in Eugene and also attended Valparaiso University. He entered the insurance industry and began his actuarial efforts in 1979.

Since joining Pinnacle in 2005, Mr. Carlson’s consulting engagements and practice have included personal and commercial lines ratemaking, rate filing and regulatory compliance including expert witness testimony, legislative review and costing and personal lines, commercial lines and title insurance reserving. He has considerable experience with Florida issues including rate filing requirements and the use of catastrophe models in ratemaking and exposure management. He has been involved in performing studies for various state government operated funds.

Mr. Carlson is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries. He is the immediate Past President of the Casualty Actuarial Society and currently serves as the Chair of the CAS Board of Directors. Previously, he has served the CAS in various other capacities including as a member of the Board of Directors, Vice President of Professional Education, member of the Executive Council, Chair of the Ratemaking Research Committee and the Ratemaking Seminar Committee and frequent faculty member of the Ratemaking Seminar, Casualty Loss Reserve Seminar and Predictive Modeling Seminar. Mr. Carlson is a frequent speaker at industry meetings on topics related to personal lines pricing, reserving and actuarial standards of practice.

Mr. Carlson was a member of the Casualty Committee of the Actuarial Standards Board from 1997 through 2006 and served as the Committee Chair in 2005 and 2006. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Actuaries in 2007 and 2008. He has been a member of the Academy’s Casualty Practice Council since 2005.

Prior to joining Pinnacle, Mr. Carlson held various actuarial positions during his tenure with the Nationwide Insurance Companies which spanned over twenty-five years. His ratemaking assignments included personal lines automobile and homeowners, rate filings and regulatory compliance, His reserving assignments included both personal and commercial lines as well as assumed reinsurance. He provided actuarial assistance to a subsidiary third party claims administrator. His involvement with assumed reinsurance included analysis of the run-off of asbestos and environmental liability both in the U.S. and London Markets and analysis of various potential commutation opportunities. He was involved in due diligence teams in the review of potential acquisition candidates.