January 2026 New Committee Members

CASUALTY

Tyson Mohr is chairperson and Devyn McNicoll is vice chairperson of the Committee on Equity and Fairness and Gary Wang is a member of the committee.

Pamela Kurtz is chairperson of the ACI/ACRI Work Group and the following our members of the work group: Christina Marinello Swan and Trevor Mooneyhan.

Kayla Robertson is chairperson of the Opinion Seminar Subcommittee and Jennifer Leach is a member of the subcommittee.

Kazuko Minagawa Prock is chairperson of the Practice Note Subcommittee of COPLFR.

Susan Kent is chairperson of the Qualifications Review Panel.

Margo MacKenzie is vice chairperson of the Casualty Practice Council.

Jennifer Teter is the vice chairperson of the Medical Professional Liability Committee and Shannon Kacherovich is a member of the committee.

Jennifer Balester is vice chairperson of the Committee on Property and Liability Financial Reporting and David Wolfe is a member of the committee.

Isabelle McCullough is vice chairperson of the Committee on Cyber Risk and Ishmealina Boye is a member of the committee.

Matthew Collins, EricHintikka, Margo MacKenzie, Norman Niami, Shannon Osterfeld, Griffin Rock, Adil Siddiqui, and Geoffrey Werner joined the Automobile Insurance Committee.

Rose Barrett, Spencer Miller, and JustinSmith joined the Workers’ Compensation Committee.

David Blake, Gloria Gilliam, Richard Moncher, and Norman Niami joined the P/C Extreme Events and Property Lines Committee.

Terry Alfuth and Yun Bai joined the Property and Casualty Risk-Based Capital Committee.

Zora Law and Martin Menard joined the Commercial Liability Insurance Task Force.

Yanfei Atwell, Joseph Griffin, and NormanNiami joined the Homeowners Insurance Task Force.

Rebecca Armon joined the Law Manual Subcommittee.

HEALTH          

Peter Horman is chairperson of the Behavioral Health Task Force and the following are members of the task force: Tyler Burnett, Yifei Dai, Omar Haq, and Joel McVey.

Ling Hong Chan, Yu- Ching Chen, AshkaunHami, Ethan Kitzmiller, Ankit Nanda, Jason Nowakowski, Dorina Paritsky, and Elizabeth Verticchio joined the Individual and Small Group Markets Committee.

Yu- Ching Chen, Michael Dearman, Brandy Fisher, David Guede, Ankit Nanda, Brian Rankin, and RubenRomero Sanchez joined the Financial Reporting and Solvency Committee.

Jingshuang Chen, Kate Ellis, Myles Kitchen, Joshua Panfil, and DorinaParitsky joined the Active Benefits Committee.

Erich Jones, Joel McVey, and Karin Swenson-Moore joined the Health Equity Committee.

Brandy Fisher, Scott Fitzpatrick, Brian Rankin, Ruben Romero Sanchez, Tiffany Tazmin-Ewing, and Brian Ulery joined the LTC Committee.

Yu- Ching Chen, ThomasD’Ancona, Yifei Dai, Omar Haq, Xinyi Hu, Kuang Li, and Tiffany Tazmin-Ewing joined the Medicaid Committee.

Erik Wheeler joined the Health Care Receivables Factors Work Group.

Jingshuang Chen, Kate Ellis, and Richard Roeder joined the Retiree Benefits Committee.

LIFE

Donna Claire is chairperson of the Life Practice Council.

Kent Barchers, Jevon Holder, Yixuan Liu, Steven Malerich, Liddie-Beth Palmers, and Rostislav Zilber joined the Life GAAP Reporting Committee.

Inna Kogan and Alyssa Moreno joined the Life Experience and Assumptions Committee.

Joy Chou, Michael Evans, Yazhe Ren, and Haofeng Yu joined the Economic Scenario Generator Subcommittee.

Bradley Williams joined the C3 Subcommittee.

John Hyde, Sheila Melzer, and Timothy Sommers joined the Life Illustrations Subcommittee.

George Joseph, Inna Krykova, Thomas Lamanna, Lisa Parker, Bryon Robidoux, and Wenting Yang joined the Life and Health Valuation Law Manual Review Subcommittee.

Sean Jackson and Yazhe Ren joined the LPC Investment Analysis Subcommittee.

John Hyde, Joshua Panfil, Heather Samuelson, and Timothy Sommers joined the Life Underwriting and Risk Classification Subcommittee.

James Glickman and Shannon Kacherovich joined the Tax Committee.

Andrew Crespo, Robert Deosaran, Michael Evans, Hua (Laurie) Li, Kenneth Qian, Ning Yang, and Rostislav Zilber joined the Variable Annuity Reserves and Capital Subcommittee.

Kelsey Douthitt, George Joseph, Thomas Lamanna, and Michael Morrison joined the Life Reserves Subcommittee.

RISK MANAGEMENT & FINANCIAL REPORTING

William Jones is chairperson of the Risk Management and Financial Reporting Council.

Andrew Larocque is chairperson of the Behavioral Economics Work Group and the following are members of the work group: Tyler Burnett, Gordon Hay, and Dorina Paritsky.

Marcella Ruzicka is chairperson of the Data Science and Analytics Committee and the following are members of the committee: Melissa Hollis, Joshua Panfil, Kenneth Poole, and Jacob Robertson.

Kevin Desmond, Amelia Thacher, Christian Veenstra, Sisi Wu, and WentingYang joined the Financial Reporting Committee.

Julie Perks, Bryon Robidoux, and Jared Rosen joined the ERM/ORSA Committee.

Joy Chou, Scott Fitzpatrick, and YixuanLiu joined the Prudential Regulation Committee.

Wanchin Chou, David Guede, Melissa Hollis, Nicholas Jacobi, Shannon Kacherovich, Spencer Sadkin, and Haofeng Yu joined the Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee.

Robert Deosaran, Scott Fitzpatrick, Kuang Li, Julie Perks, Jia Peng Qian, Hui Shan, Ning Yang, and Haofeng Yu joined the Reinsurance Work Group.

PENSION

Susan Boyle, Jay Francis Hines, Spencer Look, and Thomas Vicente joined the Retirement Practice Council.

Martin Bauer, Fernando Garcia Alvarado, Troy Jaros, and Tianxiang Shi joined the Pension Committee.

Martin Bauer, Audrey Cervas, Janet Comisky, and Robert Rachlow joined the Social Security Committee.

Joshua Allmen joined the Multiemployer Plans Committee.

Marc Rivera and Elizabeth Walsh joined the Defined Contribution Subcommittee of Pension Committee.

Joseph Silvestri joined the Retirement Policy and Design Evaluation Committee.

PROFESSIONALISM

Kevin Dyke joined the Committee on Qualifications.

Jim Donofrio, John Pedric, and Carrie West joined the Committee on Professional Responsibility.

ACADEMY JOINT COMMITTEE

Jon-Zeu Wu is vice chairperson of the Climate Change Joint Committee and Wanchin Chou is a member of the committee.