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Management

Photo Shawna Ackerman FCAS, MAAA Principal and Consulting Actuary



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Office Phone: 415-692-0937
shawnaa@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo LeRoy Boison FCAS, MAAA Principal and Consulting Actuary



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Office Phone: 516-746-7149
lboison@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo Barbara T. Henderson Executive Director



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Office Phone: 309-807-2303
bhenderson@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo Joseph A. Herbers ACAS, MAAA Managing Principal



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Office Phone: 309-807-2310
jherbers@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo Steven G. Lehmann FCAS, FSA, FCIA, MAAA Principal and Consulting Actuary



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Office Phone: 309-807-2302
slehmann@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo Roosevelt C. Mosley, Jr. FCAS, MAAA Principal and Consulting Actuary



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Office Phone: 309-807-2330
rmosley@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo Robert J. Walling, III FCAS, MAAA Principal and Consulting Actuary



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Office Phone: 309-807-2320
rwalling@pinnacleactuaries.com

Consultants

Photo Shawna Ackerman FCAS, MAAA Principal and Consulting Actuary



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Office Phone: 415-692-0937
shawnaa@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo LeRoy Boison FCAS, MAAA Principal and Consulting Actuary



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Office Phone: 516-746-7149
lboison@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo Erich A. Brandt FCAS, MAAA Consulting Actuary



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Office Phone: 309-807-2311
ebrandt@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo Christopher S. Carlson FCAS, MAAA Consulting Actuary



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Office Phone: 614-734-8366
ccarlson@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo Nikklaus J. Frank ARM, ARM-P Risk Management Consultant



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Office Phone: 309-807-2315
nfrank@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo Derek W. Freihaut FCAS, MAAA Consulting Actuary



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Office Phone: 309-807-2313
dfreihaut@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo Joseph A. Herbers ACAS, MAAA Managing Principal



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Office Phone: 309-807-2310
jherbers@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo Bryan Isbell Information Technology Manager



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Office Phone: 309-807-2350
bisbell@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo Steven G. Lehmann FCAS, FSA, FCIA, MAAA Principal and Consulting Actuary



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Office Phone: 309-807-2302
slehmann@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo Kevin M. Madigan PhD, ACAS, MAAA Consulting Actuary



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Office Phone: 518-288-0139
kmadigan@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo Jonathan L. Matthews FCAS, MAAA Consulting Actuary



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Office Phone: 309-807-2314
jmatthews@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo Laura A. Maxwell FCAS, MAAA Consulting Actuary



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Office Phone: 415-692-0938
lmaxwell@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo Roosevelt C. Mosley, Jr. FCAS, MAAA Principal and Consulting Actuary



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Office Phone: 309-807-2330
rmosley@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo Pete S. Rauner FCAS, MAAA Senior Consulting Actuary



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Office Phone: 630-457-1296
prauner@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo Sandra L. Ross FCAS, MAAA, CIC Consulting Actuary



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Office Phone: 734-927-5103
sross@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo Paul A. Vendetti FCAS, MAAA Senior Consulting Actuary



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Office Phone: 309-807-2312
pvendetti@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo John E. Wade ACAS, MAAA Senior Consulting Actuary



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Office Phone: 317-889-5760
jwade@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo Robert J. Walling, III FCAS, MAAA Principal and Consulting Actuary



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Office Phone: 309-807-2320
rwalling@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo Gary C. Wang FCAS, MAAA Consulting Actuary



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Office Phone: 309-807-2331
gwang@pinnacleactuaries.com
Photo Paul A. Vendetti FCAS, MAAA Senior Consulting Actuary

Mr. Vendetti is a Senior Consultant with Pinnacle Actuarial Resources, Inc., in the Bloomington, Illinois office. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from Amherst College. He also has graduate level coursework in Applied Mathematics from DePaul University. He has fourteen years experience as an actuary in the property/casualty industry.

Mr. Vendetti is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and is a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

Prior to joining Pinnacle Actuarial Resources, Paul was employed by Zurich North America. Prior to Zurich, Paul worked at American Agricultural Insurance Company. His background includes primary lines and reinsurance pricing, loss reserving and catastrophe modeling. Paul's pricing experience includes pricing agricultural products including Farmowners, Crop Hail and Multi-Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI). His commercial pricing experience also includes warranty and aviation programs along with funding studies for both public and private self-insured entities. His reinsurance experience includes reinsurance program optimization and analyzing reinsurance treaties for risk transfer.

His loss reserving experience includes: loss reserve analyses for both primary companies, reinsurance companies and both public and private self-insured entities. His experience also includes catastrophe modeling primarily focused on catastrophe pricing and accumulation management.

Mr. Vendetti is a member of the CAS Committee on Reinsurance Research, the American Academy of Actuaries’ Property and Other Lines Subcommittee and a contributing author, for the brochure “If Disaster Strikes Will You Be Covered” prepared for the Federal Alliance For Safe Homes in conjunction with The Actuarial Foundation.

Other published articles include:

  • “Farmowners Pricing Should Change With Farms,”

Pinnacle Actuarial Resources Monograph Program, July 2007

  •  “Actuarial Details of Risk Transfer Come to the Forefront,”

The Interpreter, Fall 2008

  • "Common Pitfalls and Practical Considerations in Risk Transfer Analysis,”

2009 CAS Reinsurance Research Call Paper Program
 

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Office Phone: 309-807-2312
pvendetti@pinnacleactuaries.com