Michelle is an Associate in the Casualty
Actuarial Society and is a Member of the American Academy of
Actuaries. She also obtained the Associate in Risk Management
designation in 1996 and received the award for academic excellence
in that program. She served as president for the Casualty Actuaries
of the Southeast for the 1999-2000 year. From 1990 to September
2003, she was Vice President and Consulting Actuary for Willis Risk
Solutions of Willis North America. During this time she consulted
extensively in the areas of actuarial, risk management and
enterprise risk management.
In the area of enterprise risk
management, she has focused on modeling issues as regards integrated
programs that often include non-traditional risks. She has
significant expertise in risk mapping and alternative risk transfer
mechanisms. She has been a member of numerous project teams that
provided enterprise risk consultancy services and was part of the
project team that completed the integrated program that was hailed
the “Deal of the Decade” by CFO Magazine (June 2000).
Michelle has spoken at numerous
treasury and risk management conferences and in May of 2000 she
co-authored a paper entitled “Enterprise Risk Management: A
Consultative Perspective” which was published by the Casualty
Actuarial Society’s Insurance in the Next Century Discussion Paper
Program. She has contributed to academic case studies completed by
Harvard and the University of South Carolina in the area of
enterprise risk management.
Michelle has also completed
actuarial, risk management and special consulting projects for
numerous clients in varying industries. These include allocation
analyses, retention analyses, and risk management organizational
audits. Additionally, Michelle has been involved in “letter of
credit” negotiations and commutation analyses and has served as an
expert witness.
Prior to joining Willis, Michelle
attended Vanderbilt University, where she taught mathematics courses
while pursuing a Master’s Degree. In 1990 Michelle was awarded the
outstanding Graduate Student teaching award for the College of Arts
and Sciences and received the M.S. Degree in Mathematics. Michelle
graduated summa cum laude as valedictorian from Lipscomb University
in 1988, receiving a B.S. Degree in Mathematics.
