Board Selection Center
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August 19, 2026
Three Academy volunteers have been selected by the Academy’s Nominating Committee to serve as member-selected directors on the Board of Directors, with three-year terms beginning in December.
Jamala Arland, MAAA, FSA, CFA is President and CEO of Genworth Insurance Companies (Closed Block), which includes responsibility for the long-term sustainability of the nation’s largest private long-term care (LTC) insurance block, serving more than one million policyholders.
Arland has more than 20 years of experience as an executive leader and actuary spanning long-term care insurance, life insurance, annuities, valuation, product development, risk management, capital strategy, and inforce management. Prior to joining Genworth, she worked in Ernst & Young’s actuarial practice in New York.
Arland has been an active leader and volunteer within the actuarial profession for more than a decade. She served as chairperson of the American Academy of Actuaries’ LTC Reform Subcommittee from 2021 to 2023, helping advance discussions around long-term care financing and public policy solutions. In this capacity, she led the drafting of Academy comment letters and presented to the NAIC on proposals in this space. She also served as chairperson of the Society of Actuaries’ (SOA’s) LTC Section in 2020 and chairperson of the SOA’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee in 2021. She is a past vice president of the International Association of Black Actuaries and currently serves on the SOA’s North American Employers Council.
Arland was appointed by the California Senate Committee on Rules to serve on the California LTC Insurance Task Force from 2021 to 2023, where she represented the LTC insurance industry in evaluating the feasibility of a statewide LTC insurance program. She also serves on the American Council of Life Insurers’ CEO Steering Committee on Consumer Issues and is a frequent speaker on the future of LTC, caregiving, insurance sustainability, and public-private solutions for an aging population.
Arland is a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries, a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a CFA Charterholder. She is also a Committee for Economic Development Fellow. In addition to her professional activities, she serves on the Board of Trustees of FRIENDS Association for Children and the Board of Directors of Children’s Hospital of Richmond, and has served on the Foundation Board of the Science Museum of Virginia. She earned a Bachelor of Mathematics in Actuarial Science and Statistics from the University of Waterloo.
Tyson Mohr, MAAA, FSA, ACAS, CSPA joined State Farm in 2007 as a Life Actuary. Across his 19-year career, he has held a wide variety of roles spanning finance, enterprise risk management, property/casualty underwriting, and modeling. In his current role in P/C actuarial, he focuses on advising the Law Department on actuarial legal/regulatory topics and advancing companywide personal lines auto and homeowners pricing strategy.
A 2025 recipient of the American Academy of Actuaries’ Outstanding Volunteerism Award, Mohr is chairperson of the Academy’s P/C Committee on Equity and Fairness, where he has contributed to issue briefs and actively engaged in regulatory outreach to the NAIC on these issues. He has also developed a survey examining actuarial perspectives on bias, and weighed in on proposed actuarial standards of practice (ASOPs). He is also a member of the Academy’s AI, Data Science, and Analytics Committee and an instructor at Illinois State University.
Stephen Smith, MAAA, FSA, CFA joined Neuberger in 2016 and is CIO of Insurance Investments, responsible for advising, structuring, and managing insurance portfolios across asset classes. In addition to portfolio management, Smith oversees strategic and quantitative analysis for institutional clients, especially strategic asset allocation, capital management, and asset-liability management.
Smith is closely involved with US insurance regulatory developments. He chairs the Academy’s Life Investment and Capital Adequacy Committee and the committee’s C-1 Subcommittee. He has performed regular outreach to the NAIC on these issues, including through a presentation on Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLO) C-1 factors modeling in March 2026, and has widely engaged with the news media in promoting the Academy’s life-practice work. Previously, Smith held positions as an insurance strategist at Goldman Sachs and as an actuary at MassMutual. Steve graduated Phi Beta Kappa in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of South Carolina.
For more details about what is expected of Member-Selected Directors, please visit this page.
Nominating Committee Guidelines
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.
If the Board elects the slate of officers at its annual meeting in October and Academy members select the slate of member-selected directors presented to them by the Nominating Committee, the distribution of Board members for the 2026-2027 year will be as follows (officer candidates elected by the Board are highlighted in blue; member-selected director candidates selected by Academy members in green):
| Position | Name | Practice Area | Employer Type | Term End |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Past President (Board Chairperson) | Tricia Matson | Life | Consultant | 2027 |
| President | Frank Todisco | Retirement | Retired (Government) | 2028 |
| President-Elect | Susan Kent | Casualty | Retired (Insurer) | 2029 |
| Secretary-Treasurer* | Andy Ferris | Life | Consultant | 2027 |
| Vice President, Professionalism and Education | William Hines | Life | Retired (Consultant) | 2027 |
| Vice President, Membership | Joyce Bohl | Health | Retired (Insurer) | 2027 |
| Vice President, Casualty | Kevin Dyke | Casualty | Regulator | 2028 |
| Vice President, Health | Susan Pantely | Health | Consultant | 2028 |
| Vice President, Life | Kirsten Pedersen | Life | Consultant | 2027 |
| Vice President, Retirement | Bruce Cadenhead | Retirement | Consultant | 2027 |
| Vice President, Risk Management and Financial Reporting | Bill Jones | Casualty | Insurer | 2027 |
| Member-Selected Director | Steve Armstrong | Casualty | Insurer | 2027 |
| Member-Selected Director | Eric Keener | Retirement | Consultant | 2027 |
| Member-Selected Director | Stephen Koca | Casualty | Consultant | 2027 |
| Member-Selected Director | Joe Hicks | Retirement | Consultant | 2028 |
| Member-Selected Director | Ron Ogborne | Health | Consultant | 2028 |
| Member-Selected Director | Becky Sheppard | Health | Consultant | 2028 |
| Member-Selected Director | Jamala Arland | Health | Insurer | 2029 |
| Member-Selected Director | Tyson Mohr | Casualty | Insurer | 2029 |
| Member-Selected Director | Stephen Smith | Life | Investment Management Firm | 2029 |
*The Academy’s secretary-treasurer can serve for three consecutive one-year terms. Andy Ferris will be in his first year as secretary-treasurer of a possible three.