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Mark E Shaw
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Profile Information

Company & Title (Optional)
United Health Actuarial Services, Inc.
Consulting Actuary
Business Interests / Areas Of Expertise (Optional - This is how people with a common affintiy will find you when using the search function in the upper right-hand corner)
Actuarial
Health Insurance
Supplemental Insurance
Long Term Care
Risk Management
Product Development
Strategy Development
Peer Review
Compliance and statutory reporting
Experience and financial analysis
Expert Witness and Litigation Support
Experience - (Optional if you want to include your past work experience, etc.)
Consulting Actuary at United Health Actuarial Services, Inc. August 2008 – Present
UHAS provides health actuarial and management consulting services for a wide range of individual and group medical and supplemental insurance products, and health & welfare actuarial and benefits consulting for both insured and self-insured plans. Our experienced team can provide the full range of health actuarial services, including:

Compliance and statutory reporting
Experience and financial analysis
Expert witness and litigation support
Implementation support
Liaison and negotiation support
Merger & acquisition support
Participation in all aspects of company management
Peer review
Product/plan development and pricing/re-pricing
Retiree/OPEB valuations
Risk Management
Valuation and financial reporting and related support

We serve in many capacities, ranging from one-time projects to long-term arrangements where we serve as a client's actuarial department and as part of their management team. We are happy to provide services anywhere in this continuum.

Senior Vice President - Strategic Development at Assurant Health - July 2003 - May 2008
Provide leadership of selected initiatives for future company growth. 1) Strategic advisor to supplemental health business; 2) Evaluate and develop business plan for international opportunities for Assurant Health products; and 3) Explore M&A opportunities.

Previous roles:

Provide leadership of all actuarial functions (staff of 36) to support business unit including product development, product pricing, forecasting, risk management, advanced analytics, data management and network pricing. Help lead business unit strategic planning and consumer marketing initiatives.

Create a new business to compete with other supplemental health insurers such as AFLAC, Colonial, and Allstate. Responsible for developing and managing all aspects of the business including: crafting business strategy, designing product portfolio, overseeing actuarial work, getting products approved, producing marketing plan, and setting up administration through a TPA. Act as P&L leader.

Senior Vice President - Corporate Risk Management at AFLAC - May 2001 - May 2003
Create and lead the worldwide risk management efforts in newly created corporate function of international insurer. Primary responsibility to consult with and help other senior officers identify, measure, evaluate, monitor, and mitigate all significant business risks.

Senior Vice President - Chief Health Actuary at Conseco - May 1988 - May 2001
Built and led the newly created health division of the actuarial department to support all actuarial aspects including valuation, financial reporting, product design, pricing and administration of the $1.3 billion annual revenue Carmel-based health businesses of Conseco. Primary product lines supported: Long Term Care, Specified Disease, Group Dental and Disability, Medicare Supplement, Major Medical. Lead Product Steering Committee. Lead divisional budgeting process ($120 million annual budget). Review financial results with executive management and external auditors. Make presentations to rating agencies, analysts and investors. Assist in analyzing potential health acquisitions. Divisional representative to corporate Legal Steering Committee. Assess need for, negotiate and administer health reinsurance.
Company Websites (Optional)
www.uhasinc.com
Education (Optional)
Georgia State University, BBA Actuarial Science (1980 )
Fellow of the Society Of Actuaries (FSA 1987)
Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA 1984)
Fellow of the Life Office Management Association (FLMI 1981)
Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst (CERA 2008)
Looking to network with people who: (Optional)
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At 7:01am on January 13, 2009, Walt Podgurski said…
Mark,

Thanks for joining Insurance Campus.org!

How to “Get Started” at Insurance Campus.org

Insurance Campus.org now has almost 600 members from 15 countries and I want to personally thank you for your interest. The medium is new to us and we are going through a bit of a learning curve on how to make this a tremendous networking and communication tool for everyone. We have started a “Tips for using Insurance Campus.org” help list that you can access by clicking the “Forum” tab at the top of the page. We will be adding topics and it currently has information on:

- How to “Get Started” at Insurance Campus.org
- How to change the “theme” on your home page
- What is the URL of my Insurance Campus.org Home Page?
- What to do if your picture is not displaying properly.
- Using the search bar
- Starting a Forum Discussion
- Starting your own Group
- Adding a Photo to your page.
- What countries have one or more members at Insurance Campus.org?
- Privacy & How To Send A Private Message To Another Member Of Insurance Campus.org
- Every Tuesday is “Make A Friend Tuesday” at Insurance Campus.org

We will try not to broadcast too many messages to the entire group, but we wanted to let you know where to start for assistance. The “power” of this site is the user-generated nature of the content and we look forward to see how the members control it.

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The best way to get started may be to use the search bar located in the upper right corner. Type in an area of interest and everything related to that topic will be listed for you.

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Every Tuesday is “Make A Friend Tuesday” at Insurance Campus.org

You can use the search box located in the upper right corner to type in whatever keyword you want to help find people with a common affinity (see new profile questions below); it could be an area of business interest, a country, or even be an area of personal interest.

“At the end of a year, if you do nothing but make one new relationship each Tuesday, you will expand your network by 52 insurance professionals, and by the multiple of all their business relationship contacts as well.

“By establishing Tuesdays as Make A Friend day, it reduces some of the reluctance to reach out to somebody where there has been no previous introduction. If nothing else, there is the common affinity of being a member of Insurance Campus.org.” Of course you don’t have to wait until Tuesdays to reach out and make new friends with someone you don’t know.

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Here is some information about privacy and sending private messages.

No information appears on any member’s page, except what they put there and the e-mail address used to register is never shown.

If a person wants to send a private message to another member, there is a send a message icon in the left column right next to the envelope icon. This will send a private e-mail to the other member, but does not reveal the actual e-mail address it is being sent to. Nobody knows that you sent an e-mail or what the e-mail says except you, the recipient, and whatever service handles your e-mail technology.

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We are working to make Insurance Campus.org the largest insurance networking site on the Internet. It may take a short time to completely populate the site applications and groups, but we think you will see the vision and potential of the site immediately.

Let us know if we can be of any assistance.

Walt Podgurski
 
 
 

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