Resume

Brennen L. Slaney, FSA

Published

June 17, 2026

Education & Credentials

Harvard Business School — MBA, Class of 2028

The University of Alabama — M.S. Applied Statistics (Jan 2018 – Dec 2019) · GPA 3.6

The University of Alabama — B.S. Business Administration, Finance (Minor: Actuarial Science) (Aug 2016 – Dec 2019) · GPA 4.0

Senior Associate Actuary — Actuarial Modeling & Strategy · Nashville, TN · Jun 2025 – Present

Calculate and provide hedge targets for a $65B+ liability portfolio across 18 blocks of business to manage interest-rate risk
Add hedging capabilities for new lines of business as deals close; streamline workflow for efficiency
Contribute to ~200 quarterly Asset-Liability Management (ALM) model runs and summarize results to Capital Management
Partner with investments, modeling, and capital management to align model assets, liabilities, and reinvestments
Drove Q2→Q3 control improvements that significantly reduced errors
Mentor the 3 Actuarial Development Program analysts on the team in person

Senior Associate Actuary — Experience Studies & Analytics · Nashville, TN · Jul 2023 – Jun 2025

Analyzed actuarial assumptions on annuity blocks to test fit and proposed updates
Automated studies previously outsourced to consultants, saving $500k+/year
Completed the most assumption-review studies on the team in year one (5) while managing an intern on another
Authored company-wide instructions for integrating GitHub with code; onboarded 5+ teams
Led twice-weekly working sessions for the 10-member team; standardized work product across sub-teams

Actuarial Lead Analyst — Pharmacy Economics · Nashville, TN · Aug 2022 – Jul 2023

Delivered quarterly unit-cost trend projections and explained drivers to FP&A, Pricing, and Reserving
Projected COVID vaccine costs amid a shifting federal-funding end date, and GLP-1 cost trend at market emergence — both requiring heavy judgment
Migrated trend-contribution analysis from Excel to R and automated data pulls, SQL updates, and documentation
Restructured three models for transparency and easier reconciliation

Actuarial Senior Analyst — Medicare Advantage Pricing · Nashville, TN · Jul 2020 – Aug 2022

Priced ~15 existing and ~5 expansion plans for Mid-Atlantic/Northeast markets; presented results to the market president and product leaders
Navigated SNP plans, capitated arrangements, and state regulatory differences (MD, DC, DE)
Owned and improved the Excel tooling aggregating financials across all markets; reported rolled-up results to a Senior Director

Earlier experience

AEDP Intern — Cigna, IFP Pricing (Summer 2019): SQL data cleaning/merging; SAS regressions on membership drivers; built a dynamic Excel pricing model.
Actuarial Intern — Western & Southern Life, Forecasting & Risk (Summer 2018): liability cash-flow projections; MG-ALFA asset/liability forecasting model.

Fortitude Re — Intern Manager (2024); Social Committee (2023–Present; founded the 32-person March Madness ping-pong tournament & company kickball team)
CFA Society Nashville — Member (2024–Present)
Cigna — AEDP Intern Committee (Member 2021, Lead 2022); Actuarial Community Task Force (2020–2022); SE Recruiting Team (University of Alabama lead recruiter)
University of Alabama — Culverhouse Ambassador (1 of 25 from 8,000 students, 2017–2019); Alabama Insurance Society, Actuarial Chair (2019)

Pretty Good (even without AI): Python · GitHub · Quarto · Excel · SQL

Good with AI only: Julia

Intermediate: R · SAS

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