Resume

Brennen L. Slaney, FSA

Published

August 6, 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
Extend hedge-target coverage to new lines of business as reinsurance deals close, streamlining the production workflow along the way
Support ~200 quarterly Asset-Liability Management (ALM) model runs; summarize results for Capital Management
Partner with investments, modeling, and capital management to align model assets, liabilities, and reinvestments
Strengthened quarterly production controls, cutting model-run errors quarter over quarter
Mentor the team’s 3 Actuarial Development Program analysts

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

Tested the fit of actuarial assumptions on annuity blocks and proposed updates
Brought previously outsourced assumption studies in-house and automated them, eliminating a six-figure annual consulting spend
Completed a team-high 5 assumption-review studies in year one while managing an intern’s study in parallel
Wrote the company-wide guide for adopting GitHub version control; 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 through a shifting federal-funding end date and GLP-1 cost trend at market emergence
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
Priced across Special Needs Plans (SNPs), capitated arrangements, and differing state regulations (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 selected from 8,000+ business students, 2017–2019); Alabama Insurance Society, Actuarial Chair (2019)

Strong (with or without AI): Python · SQL · Excel · GitHub · Quarto

Strong (AI required): Julia

Working knowledge: R · SAS

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