Shawna Ackerman is a Principal and Consultant with Pinnacle Actuarial Resources, Inc., in San Francisco, California. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Oregon State University. She has worked in the insurance industry since 1989.

Ms. Ackerman is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries. She currently serves the CAS as a member of the Variance Editorial Board. She is the co-chair for the American Academy of Actuaries Extreme Events Committee.

Ms. Ackerman’s consulting experience and practice includes personal and commercial lines ratemaking, rate filing and regulatory compliance, including expert witness testimony in numerous jurisdictions, legislative review and costing and financial modeling. She has considerable experience with California issues including rate filing requirements, sequential analysis, workers compensation and catastrophe models.

Prior to joining Pinnacle Actuarial Resources, Ms. Ackerman was a Senior Casualty Actuary with the California Department of Insurance. At the Department, she was responsible for evaluating ratemaking formulas and procedures for most property and casualty lines of insurance; providing expert witness testimony and other litigation support related to Proposition 103 matters; and analyzing loss and loss adjustment expense reserves for workers’ compensation carriers.

Ms. Ackerman has made numerous presentations on topics relating to rate regulations, ratemaking, including catastrophe ratemaking issues and predictive modeling.