ASB Members

Laura Hanson works in the Office of the Chief Actuary at Pacific Life, where she oversees actuarial regulatory affairs for the retail, institutional, workforce benefits, and reinsurance divisions. Over the years, Hanson’s responsibilities have included product design, development, and implementation; policyholder contracts, disclosures, and annual statements; state product filings; indexed product illustrations; asset adequacy testing; appointed actuary memoranda; and own risk and solvency assessment (ORSA) memoranda. She has worked with fixed indexed annuities, variable annuities, indexed universal life insurance, long-term care insurance, longevity risk transfers, and pension risk transfers.

Prior to joining the Actuarial Standards Board (ASB) in 2022, Hanson was chair of the ASB Task Force to Revise ASOP No. 22, Statements of Actuarial Opinion Based on Asset Adequacy Analysis for Life Insurance, Annuity, or Health Insurance Reserves and Other Liabilities. She has also served on the Academy Life Practice Council (LPC) as Academy Vice President (Life); chairperson of the Life Products Committee; vice chairperson of the Annuity Illustration Work Group; and chairperson of several task forces to provide comments to the ASB. Hanson is currently co-chairperson of the LPC Diversity Equity & Inclusion Task Force and is a member of several other LPC work groups. She regularly presents at NAIC, SOA, and Academy conferences.

Hanson holds a J.D. from the Mitchell Hamline School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from the University of Minnesota.

Rick Lassow is vice president, Actuarial & Underwriting at Summit Reinsurance Services Inc. He has worked as a consulting and employed actuary for health plans, state agencies, and providers. He has expertise in health policy actuarial analysis, cell and gene therapy modeling, ACO risk sharing, product development, health status-based risk adjustment, fully-insured and excess pricing, and data management.

Prior to joining the ASB in 2023, Lassow served on the ASB Health Committee, including a term as chairperson; was chairperson of the Task Force to Revise ASOP No. 5; and was Vice Chairperson of the Task Force to Revise ASOP No. 42.

Lassow earned degrees in mathematics from St. Olaf College and the University of Nebraska and was a policy fellow at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

Chris Noble is a retired pension actuary with extensive experience in funding, accounting, and compliance issues for the pension and retiree welfare plans of large and medium-sized private employers in a wide range of industries. Prior to retirement, Noble was a consultant in the Seattle office of Willis Towers Watson. As the senior actuary for pensions in the office, he provided technical guidance to the pension practice serving clients in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Idaho.

Prior to joining the Actuarial Standards Board, Noble served for eight years on the board’s Pension Committee, including three years as chairperson. He has been a frequent speaker on actuarial standards of practice.

Noble holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Cornell University and was a professor of mathematics and statistics prior to joining the actuarial profession.

Erica Baird is a principal and consulting actuary at Milliman, working in health insurance with a focus on risk adjustment and predictive modeling. She has extensive experience designing and calibrating predictive models in a variety of contexts and is involved in ongoing research and development of the models included in the Milliman Advanced Risk Adjusters (MARA) software. She has worked with payers, providers, and brokers in the Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and commercial insurance markets.

Prior to joining the ASB in 2026, Baird served on the Task Force to revise ASOP No. 12 and was chairperson of the Task Force to revise ASOP 45.

Baird earned a PhD in mathematics and statistics with a focus on probability from Oregon State University. She is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

Mary Frances is a founder and senior consulting actuary with Select Actuarial Services. With over 40 years of property and casualty actuarial experience, she provides actuarial consulting services primarily related to the maintenance and design of risk management programs. Her clients include public entities, non-profits and public corporations as well as governmental pools and associations throughout the United States and Canada.

A past President of both the Academy and the Casualty Actuarial Society, Mary Frances has served on numerous committees and task forces for both organizations as well as various committees of the International Actuarial Association. She is currently a member of the IAA’s Actuarial Standards Committee and the CAS’s delegate to the IAA Strategic Planning Committee.

Mary Frances holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in mathematics and linguistics from Michigan State University.

David Heppen is a principal with Risk & Regulatory Consulting, LLC, providing regulatory consulting actuarial services in the areas of rate review, financial and market conduct exams, and financial analysis. He has over 30 years of experience in a variety of actuarial roles with RRC as well as a global insurer, a Big Four accounting/tax/consulting firm, and an insurance broker. Heppen is a current member of the Academy’s Property and Casualty Risk-Based Capital Committee, a prior chair of the ERM/ORSA Committee and Workers’ Compensation Committee, and a prior member of the ASB Casualty Committee, COPLFR, and the P&C Committee on Equity and Fairness.

Prior to joining the ASB in 2026, Heppen served on the Task Forces to revise ASOP No. 7 and ASOP No. 20 and was chairperson of the Task Force to revise ASOP No. 30.

Heppen earned a BA in mathematics from Franklin & Marshall College. He is a fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

Gabriel (Gabe) Schiminovich works for Haven Technologies providing actuarial services for the development and implementation of technology solutions for life insurance product development, administration, underwriting and distribution.  He has over 35 years of experience in the areas of life insurance product development, operations, financial reporting, reinsurance, marketing and distribution. Schiminovich previously served as Vice President of Product Development, for an agent owned distribution and reinsurance company, where he led the development efforts partnering with insurance companies on a broad range of proprietary product solutions focused on the estate planning and corporate markets.

Prior to joining the ASB, Schiminovich served on the ASB Life Committee, including a term as chairperson, was chairperson of the Task Force to Revise ASOP No. 2, and served on several Academy committees and working groups, including chairperson of the Academy’s Non-Guaranteed Elements Working Group.

Schiminovich earned his degree in mathematics from New York University. He is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries and member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

Judy Stromback is a managing director at Deloitte Consulting LLP. She is the chair of Deloitte’s Office of the Chief Actuary, and chief pension actuary for Deloitte’s U.S. actuarial practice. She has 40 years of experience as an actuarial consultant to private- and public-sector employers. She has worked extensively with the valuation of defined benefit pension and post-retirement medical plans, implementation of pension and post-retirement benefit financial and government accounting standards, defined benefit and defined contribution plan design, and non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements. She also serves as a pension and postretirement benefit actuarial specialist as a member of numerous Deloitte & Touche LLP audit teams.

Stromback graduated cum laude from the University of Nebraska with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and actuarial science with a minor in music. She is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a fellow of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries, an Enrolled Actuary, and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

She was a member of the Actuarial Standards Board’s Pension Committee from 2009 to 2016, and a member of the Actuarial Standards Board’s General Committee from 2017 to 2020, including a stint as chairperson in 2020. She was also a member of the Data Quality Task Force that revised ASOP No. 23, Data Quality, and the Modeling Task Force that developed ASOP No. 56, Modeling.

Alisa Swann is currently a Senior Valuation Actuary working in long term care valuation at Genworth. Prior to her role at Genworth, Swann was involved in pricing ACA products and managing the transition to ACA for a regional health insurer, individual disability valuation, Medicare part D pricing, as well as writing Actuarial Opinions and Memorandums for multiple subsidiaries of a major national health insurer.

Swann has been a member of the American Academy of Actuaries since 2008 and became a fellow of the Society of Actuaries in 2010. Prior to joining the Actuarial Standards Board (ASB) in 2024, Swann served on the ASB Health Committee, the Task Force to Revise ASOP No. 28, the Reinsurance Pricing Task Force, and the Actuarial Memorandum Practice Note Work Group.

Swann earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Georgia as well as masters’ degrees in both applied mathematics and population biology from the University of California, Davis. She is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.