Pinnacle welcomes Chen back

Pinnacle Actuarial Resources has announced the return of Michael Chen back to the firm as a senior consulting actuary.

“We are very pleased to welcome Michael back to Pinnacle,” said Pinnacle managing principal Joe Herbers. “It gives us great satisfaction when accomplished and talented professionals like Michael return to our organisation. He is an outstanding addition to our already very strong predictive analytics team, and joins a group that continues to innovate and drive value for our clients.”

Chen has 20 years of actuarial experience including as a commercial pricing actuary for FBL Financial Group and actuarial analyst for American Republic Insurance Company.

Prior to his return to Pinnacle, Chen was a director at a large consulting firm where he directly contributed to client projects and lead execution of individual prospect sales strategies. He will focus on applying predictive analytics techniques to the insurance process, performing traditional actuarial analyses and furthering fairness and machine learning research in his role at Pinnacle.

Chen will be located in Des Moines, Iowa.