Board Selection Center

Aug. 22, 2025

Academy members should check their inbox for an Aug. 22 email sent from Intelliscan, the vendor managing the member-selected directors selection process that will take place Sept. 3–17. The email will be sent from Academy@intelliscanvotes.com.

July 29, 2025

Three Academy volunteers have been selected by the Nominating Committee to serve as member-selected directors on the Board of Directors, with three-year terms beginning in November. See the prospective 2025–2026 Board of Directors.

Joseph Hicks, MAAA, FCA, MSPA, EA, QPA, is founder and co-owner of Keystone 74 Benefits and Administration and has over 25 years of experience as a consultant and provider of actuarial and administrative services to multiemployer plans and health plans. Hicks has authored articles for the Journal of Pension Benefits and Benefits Magazine and has provided expert witness testimony on actuarial topics.

A 2021 recipient of the Outstanding Volunteerism Award, Hicks played a vital leadership role as vice-chairperson of the Multiemployer Plans Committee, which he now chairs, in developing timely and appropriate input to Congress on the consequential multiemployer provisions of the American Rescue Plan Act and the Multiemployer Pension Reform Actas well as organizing the Academy’s engagement in the federal rulemaking process to implement the law. He has participated in meetings with federal agency representatives and in Academy webinars as well as in comments to the Actuarial Standards Board (ASB).

Ron Ogborne, MAAA, FSA, CERA, is a Partner in Mercer’s Medicaid Consulting Practice. Over the course of his 20-year career, he has supported more than 35 distinct Medicaid managed care programs across 9 different states and territories and consulted state Medicaid programs on a multitude of other actuarial, financial and health policy issues. Ogborne currently serves as Mercer’s Medicaid Actuarial Leader, overseeing all actuarial project work across Mercer’s portfolio of state Medicaid contracts.

Ogborne is currently a member of the Health Practice Council (HPC) and past chairperson of the HPC’s Long Term Care (LTC) Medicaid Subcommittee. Since becoming a member of the Academy in 2008, he has served on numerous HPC committees and task forces. He is an active member of the Health Care Delivery Committee, he supported a variety of Academy projects and work products during his time on the Medicaid Committee, and he served on the Climate Change Joint Committee. He has also represented the Academy on various occasions, including the Academy’s congressional Hill Visits and external meetings with federal stakeholders on LTC and Medicaid topics. He was featured in an Academy Member Spotlight.

Becky Sheppard, MAAA, FSA, provides health actuarial consulting on behalf of state insurance departments and health audit support. She has over 20 years of experience and a unique background that blends traditional actuarial science and medical economics.

A 2024 recipient of the Outstanding Volunteerism Award, Sheppard helped plan and presented at the 2023 Health Equity Symposium, which brought together a diverse group of thought leaders to discuss the challenges of implementing equity-enhancing health benefits. She co-led the Benefits Design workstream of the Health Equity Committee, which she now chairs. This workstream resulted in a series of issue briefs on removing the barriers to the successful implementation of health benefit design innovations for advancing health equity. She has also represented the Academy in many forums by moderating and participating in panels and presentations with the NAIC, AHIP, and the SOA. She is also currently a member of the Reputational Risk Task Force, the Research Committee, and the ASB’s ASOP No. 41 Task Force, and she serves as the liaison from the HPC to the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee. She was featured in the Academy’s Actuary Voices Podcast in April 2024.

The Academy’s online selection of candidates by members will take place Sept. 3–17.

The Nominating Committee strives each year to nominate actuaries who contribute to the Board’s overall balance by specialty, business affiliation, employer, and additional attributes, as laid out in § II of the Nominating Committee Guidelines.

May 19, 2025

Many thanks to our members and volunteers who submitted names to the Nominating Committee for consideration this year.

For more details about nominations and what is expected of Member-Selected Directors, please visit this page.