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Hymans Robertson has appointed Ross Evans as senior consultant to its enterprise risk management practice. Evans will be responsible for growing Hymans Robertson’s advisory services to life insurers. He joins from the Royal Bank of Scotland. Evans is a regular speaker at industry conferences.
James Crispin (above) will take over from Ewing as chief actuary, and Alan McBride (below) has been appointed deputy chief actuary.
Quintant Partners has appointed Guy Shepherd (above) as director, technology and solution design. Shepherd has 20 years’ experience of insurance technology solutions, working in large insurance groups both directly and as an advisor. He previously worked for Prudential Assurance.
Barnett Waddingham has appointed Jon Palin (above) as an associate within its longevity consulting team. Palin will lead the technical development of the team’s offering to insurance companies and pension schemes. He joins Barnett Waddingham from RMS.
Barnett Waddingham has announced that eight of its staff are newly qualified following the latest round of exam results from The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. They are Tom Pickles (below) and Fiona Pilcher from
the Amersham office, Heather Howard and Chris Collins from the Bromsgrove office, Elizabeth Wise and Luke Hothersall from the Leeds office, Lauren Allan (below) from the Liverpool office and James Tomlin from the London office.
Jim Ewing has been appointed chief risk officer to the Aegon
MATTHEW GEORGE Employer and area of work Aviva – protection pricing.
How would your best friend describe you? Quite random at times.
What motivates you? Success; looking back n and knowing it has all been worthwhile.
What would be your personall motto? It’s a dog-eat-dog world.
Name five dream guests you would invite to your dinner party? Bill Gates, Larry Page, Steve e Jobs, Neil stein. I’m Armstrong and Albert Einstein. sure they’d all have an interesting story to tell.
What’s your most ‘actuarial’ habit? Giving answers to at least eight decimal places.
If you could learn one
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ACTUARY OF THE FUTURE random skill, what would you learn? I already have, solving a Rubik’s cube – it’s much easier than it looks.
If you could go back in history, who would you like to meet? Pythagoras, and tell him how
Favourite Excel function? Definitely Index and
What’s your most treasured possession? At the
Match, haven’t used a vlookup in years.
time it was my calculator when I thought I’d lost it, minutes before an actuarial exam.
How do you relax aaway from the office? I enjoy cycling cy through the North Yorkshire countryside.
Alternative caree career choice? My childhood dream drea was to become a Concorde pilot pilot; that went the same way the Concorde Con did.
Tell us some something unusual about yyourself I once won fr £5 from a race in the Scot Scottish Highlands. It was presented to me f in front of the Queen Mo Mother.
famous he’s become in classrooms today.
What are the top three things you would like to achieve in your lifetime? Qualify as an actuary within the next two years, own a house with an impressively long driveway, and go on an epic road trip across America.
If you ruled the world, what would you change first? Tax cuts for everyone.
Do you know an actuary destined for greatness? You can nominate an Actuary of the Future by emailing
aotf@theactuary.com
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