Resume

Brennen Slaney, FSA

Published

October 13, 2026

LinkedIn · GitHub · bslaney7@gmail.com

Education & Credentials

Harvard Business School · Boston, MA · 2026–2028

  • Candidate for Master of Business Administration, May 2028
  • Section F

The University of Alabama · Tuscaloosa, AL · 2016–2019

  • Bachelor of Science in Finance, minor in Actuarial Science (GPA 4.0)
  • Master of Science in Applied Statistics (GPA 3.6)
  • Culverhouse Ambassador (2017–2019): 1 of 25 selected from 8,000+ business students to represent the college to prospective students and the Board of Visitors
  • Actuarial Chair, Alabama Insurance Society (2019): served on the board and ran the actuarial group’s meetings and speaker series

Professional credentials

  • Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA), April 2024
  • CFA Level III candidate, results pending

Experience

Fortitude Re

Private equity-backed Bermuda life and annuity reinsurer

Nashville, TN · 2023–2026

Senior Associate Actuary, Modeling & Strategy · 2025–2026

  • Calculated daily liability duration and hedge targets for $65B+ of liabilities across 18 blocks, incorporating rate, credit-spread, and FX changes to size swap hedges. Added new-business hedging and rebuilt the workflow in Python for team-wide use
  • Analyzed asset-liability management (ALM) margin and regulatory excess capital with Investment Analytics, Capital Management, and Actuarial Modeling
  • Produced quarterly ALM bridges attributing changes to assumption updates across ~200 model runs per quarter and 9 rate scenarios. Covered swaps, credit spreads, FX, defaults, and dynamic lapse; summarized results for Capital Management
  • Improved data flows and visualization across the ALM projection process (Julia, Quarto, Claude Code), catching bad model inputs before a 4-hour runtime and getting valid results sooner than prior quarters
  • Trained analysts on AI coding tools and recommended team practices to management. Established team-wide manager review of AI-drafted plans before code merged

Senior Associate Actuary, Experience Studies & Analytics · 2023–2025

  • Automated assumption studies previously outsourced to consultants, eliminating a six-figure annual consulting spend
  • Presented mortality and lapse studies across pension risk transfer and annuity blocks, informing annual assumption changes affecting reserves and capital for new deals
  • Co-developed an internal Python package, “HEAT”, of reusable study functions for efficient, consistent calculations; wrote GitHub instructions that helped 5+ other teams get set up
  • Delivered study results to business partners as interactive Quarto memos
  • Completed 5 studies in my first year and managed an intern who accepted a full-time offer
  • Led twice-weekly working sessions with the 10-person team to standardize work and improve collaboration

The Cigna Group

Nashville, TN · 2020–2023

Actuarial Lead Analyst, Pharmacy Economics · 2022–2023

  • Projected quarterly drug unit cost trends and explained the drivers to FP&A, Pricing, and Reserving, setting assumptions with Clinical and Formulary partners
  • Forecast GLP-1 cost trends with little adoption history, and COVID vaccine costs as the end date for federal emergency funding kept shifting
  • Moved trend contribution calculations from Excel into R, automated data pulls, and restructured three models to make them easier to reconcile

Actuarial Senior Analyst, Medicare Advantage Pricing · 2020–2022

  • Priced ~15 existing and ~10 expansion plans in Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern markets for the 2022 and 2023 bids; presented results to the market president and product leaders
  • Priced across Special Needs Plans, capitated arrangements, and differing state regulations (MD, DC, DE)
  • Aligned assumptions and benefit changes with Finance and Product, and translated bid results to GAAP
  • Rebuilt the pricing-results tracker for a new model year and reported rolled-up results across all of Cigna’s Medicare markets to a Senior Director after each pricing round

SOA Climate & Extreme Weather Data Analysis Group (Volunteer)

2026–present

  • Built the group’s shared code repository and documentation so new volunteers can reproduce its reports
  • Writing a report on extreme temperatures; building extreme temperature templates and an El Niño tracker

Earlier Experience

AEDP Intern, Cigna, Individual & Family Plans Pricing · Nashville, TN · Summer 2019

  • Merged and cleaned member- and plan-level data in SQL to analyze each plan’s market positioning and demographics
  • Ran SAS regressions on year-over-year membership drivers (metal tier, subsidies, cost-sharing reductions, market size, relative price) and built a dynamic Excel model used by pricing leads

Actuarial Intern, Western & Southern Life, Forecasting & Risk Analysis · Cincinnati, OH · Summer 2018

  • Built liability cash-flow projections by payment frequency and life contingency, then an MG-ALFA model forecasting assets and liabilities for a line of business
  • Contributed to a reconciliation analysis of period-over-period changes in the present value of surplus across lines of business

Community

  • Guest lecturer (2x), Alabama Actuarial Science Club: health insurance pricing (2021) and ALM (2026)
  • Hosted an Alabama actuarial student visit to Fortitude Re (2025)
  • Fortitude Re Social Committee (2023–2026): started the 32-person March Madness ping-pong tournament and the company kickball team; helped plan the holiday party and seasonal office events
  • Cigna AEDP Intern Committee (member 2021, lead 2022): led the Nashville committee for 5 interns, planning technical training and social events and bringing interns back in person after the pandemic
  • Gave Cigna interns formal feedback and made full-time hiring recommendations to the program office
  • Cigna Southeast Actuarial Recruiting Team (2020–2022): lead recruiter for the University of Alabama; coordinated campus events and interviewed intern and entry-level candidates
  • Cigna Tennessee Actuarial Community Task Force (2020–2022): led the education committee (exam kickoffs, lunch-and-learns with senior leaders) and co-led social events through the pandemic
  • CFA Society Nashville member (2024–2026): attended financial presentations and volunteer events teaching students about personal finance
  • Nashville Junior Chamber member (2023–2026): networked with young professionals across Nashville and joined the chamber’s volunteer events
  • Bell Gardens volunteer, Bellevue, TN (2022–2026): landscaping and irrigation improvements for the garden beds

Technical Skills

Advanced: Python · SQL · Excel · GitHub · Quarto

Working knowledge: Julia · R · SAS · VBA · Power BI

Actuarial platforms: AXIS · MG-ALFA

Personal

Running, traveling, Steelers and Alabama football, nonfiction reading, energy and climate, and volleyball. I also build software in my spare time: see Projects, including PDF Case Review, an open-source VS Code extension for reviewing cases, and my code on GitHub.