Sponsors and Exhibitors

(As of January 2012)

Why sponsor and exhibit at the 2012 ERM Symposium?

With four general sessions and almost 30 concurrent sessions featuring top risk management experts, the ERM Symposium is the premier educational event for enterprise risk management.
Promote your organization to an expected audience of 400+ risk professionals.
Showcase your products and services to key influencers in purchase decisions.
Increase your organization’s brand recognition among chief risk officers, chief financial officers, chief actuaries, risk professionals, investment professionals, and risk modeling experts.

Review the ERM Symposium Sponsor and Exhibitor Prospectus for details on becoming a sponsor and exhibitor.

Do not delay, as opportunities are limited. Contact Megan O'Neill at 703-562-1742 or moneill@casact.org for more information.

Platinum Sponsor

PricewaterhouseCoopers

PricewaterhouseCoopers' business advisory professionals provide clients with the confidence to succeed by helping them anticipate, create and manage change. Whether clients are proactively implementing change or reacting to an unplanned event, we leverage our Firm's resources, deep industry experience, and functional acumen across the areas of operations, finance, organizational strategy and structure, process improvement, human resources effectiveness, technology integration and implementation, risk mitigation and crisis management to help organizations effect sustainable change.

Gold Sponsors

Towers Watson

Towers Watson is a leading global professional services company that helps organizations improve performance through effective people, risk and financial management. With 14,000 associates around the world, we offer solutions in the areas of employee benefits, talent management, rewards, and risk and capital management.

Our focus is on giving you the clarity to make the right decisions and take the right actions. And our approach is grounded in perspective – the kind that comes from our deep experience working on a wide range of issues.

But more important, our perspective begins at eye level – with a clear understanding of your organization, the way you work, your goals and your challenges.

By connecting the big picture and your picture, we help you achieve real-world results.

Silver Sponsor

A.M. Best

Founded in 1899, A.M. Best Company is a global credit rating organization dedicated to serving the insurance and reinsurance industries. Best's Credit Ratings provide an independent opinion of the relative financial strength and creditworthiness of risk-bearing entities and investment vehicles. Enterprise risk management is an important area of focus in A.M. Best's rating analysis process.

Moody’s Analytics

Moody’s Analytics provides strategic solutions for measuring and managing risk. We put the best practices of the entire world of credit, economics and financial risk management at your fingertips, helping you compete in an evolving marketplace. In addition to distributing the credit ratings and proprietary research of Moody’s Investors Service, we offer training and consulting services as well as leading-edge software that is tuned to your business challenges and powered by sophisticated models.

Exhibitors

Algorithmics

Algorithmics is a leading provider of enterprise risk solutions. Insurers around the world use Algorithmics' software, analytics, and advisory services for Economic Capital and Solvency II to help calculate solvency capital and enhance strategic decision-making. Leveraging over 20 years of financial engineering experience, Algorithmics offers tried and tested, award-winning solutions for risk measurement, management, and reporting that enable insurers to make more effective use of available capital and protect shareholder value.

Barrie & Hibbert

Barrie & Hibbert provides world-class stochastic modelling solutions to clients around the globe, helping them improve their business performance and succeed in complex and increasingly regulated markets.

Through our market-leading stochastic modelling framework, clients can model economic and asset scenarios which help them increase their understanding of risk and inform their decisions on any adjustments that might be made within their businesses.

Our fully transparent software and models are supported by comprehensive consultancy services.

Casualty Actuarial Society

Established in 1914, the purposes of the Casualty Actuarial Society are:

to advance the body of knowledge of actuarial science applied to general insurance, including property, casualty and similar risk exposures;
to expand the application of actuarial science to enterprise risks and systemic risks;
to establish and maintain standards of qualification for membership;
to promote and maintain high standards of conduct and competence;
to increase the awareness of actuarial science;
and, to contribute to the well being of society as a whole.

The Casualty Actuarial Society fulfills its mission to advance actuarial science through a focus on research and education. Among its 5,500 members are experts in property-casualty insurance, reinsurance, finance, risk management, and enterprise risk management.

Conning

Conning is a leading asset manager for the insurance industry, with almost $77 billion under management through its Hartford and Dublin investment centers as of December 31, 2010. The Company's unique combination of asset management, insurance research and strategic advisory services helps clients achieve their financial goals through the implementation of customized business and investment strategies. With the acquisition of DFA's cutting-edge GEMS® economic scenario generators, and ADVISE® stochastic modeling platform, Conning has expanded its portfolio of services offered to insurance companies for applications such as economic capital modeling, managing assets and liabilities, risk, reinsurance, and corporate planning. Founded in 1912, Conning is headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut, with additional offices in New York, London, Dublin, and Cologne.

Conning
One Financial Plaza
Hartford, CT 06103-2627
+1 203-860-299-2000
www.conning.com
solutions.us@conning.com

DW Simpson Global Actuarial Recruitment

The mission of DW Simpson Global Actuarial Recruitment is to be the premier executive recruiting firm specializing in the placement of actuaries and risk professionals; to be recognized for the service, integrity and forthrightness that the firm brings to each and every business relationship; and to be willing at all times to sacrifice short-term gain for the long-term good and prosperity of our clients, our candidates and, as a result, our organization as well.

Ezra Penland Actuarial Recruitment

Ezra Penland Actuarial Recruitment was established by Sally Ezra and Claude Penland, ACAS, MAAA, partners with over 35 years of combined industry experience. With the industry's leading actuarial salary surveys and a rapidly growing actuarial recruiting staff, our goal is to be the top actuarial recruitment firm in the world while serving the long-term needs of clients and actuaries.

Our educated, knowledgeable and highly-trained staff will always exhibit business ethics, integrity, empathy and strong listening skills to help you reach your business goals. Ezra Penland works on both retained and contingent searches at all levels of actuarial analysts, credentialed actuaries and senior roles.

Ezra Penland Actuarial Recruitment
4256 North Ravenswood
Suite 200
Chicago, IL 60613
(800) 580-3972
www.EzraPenland.com
actuaries@EzraPenland.com

Milliman

Milliman is among the world’s largest independent actuarial and consulting firms. From 54 locations worldwide, our staff of 2,500 people includes more than 1,300 qualified consultants and actuaries. Through consulting practices in employee benefits, healthcare, investment, life insurance and financial services, and property and casualty insurance, Milliman serves the full spectrum of business, financial, government, union, education, and nonprofit organizations. In addition to our consulting actuaries, Milliman’s body of professionals includes numerous other specialists, ranging from clinicians to economists. Our clients benefit from Milliman’s broad range of expertise in addressing their enterprise risk management initiatives.

Nexus Risk Management

Nexus Risk Management provides a clear focus for managing risk to maximize value. As a company, we focus exclusively on risk. We deliver tools, training, expertise and execution to enable our clients to have the sharp focus needed to achieve their financial objectives.

Worldwide we work closely with insurance companies and pension plans, rating agencies and regulators, leading experts from academia and the investment industry as well as reinsurers and other counterparties to bring together deep industry knowledge, leading edge techniques and best practices from around the world. Using robust ALM and LDI frameworks that are fully integrated within ERM we deliver state of the art dynamic hedging programs, asset management within a risk framework and risk optimization.

Through our offices in Toronto and Seoul we provide highly specialized services to our clients globally.

Professional Risk Managers’ International Association (PRMIA)

The Professional Risk Managers’ International Association (PRMIA) is a higher standard for risk professionals, with more than 60 chapters around the world and over 70,000 members worldwide. A non-profit, member-led association, PRMIA is dedicated to defining and implementing the best practices of risk management through education, events, networking, online resources, and certification including the Professional Risk Managers’ (PRM) designation and the Associate PRM certificate.

Pryor Associates Executive Search

“It Takes One To Know One…An Actuary Placing Actuaries”

Named a top recruiting firm by Dun & Bradstreet, Pryor has 40 years of insurance (P&C, Health, Life, Pensions & Investments) experience.

Pauline Reimer, ASA, MAAA, has headed the Actuarial Placement Division since 1986, after working as an actuary in insurance and consulting firms. Proudly the CAS's first Platinum Partner, she is also on the Executive Board of ASNY and the Advisory Board of Columbia University’s MS in Actuarial Science program.

Quoted in periodicals and television, Pauline handles each step of every actuarial assignment personally – no client is ever relegated to just an Assistant. Her impressive placement records of 99% retention rate and 100% success ratio in retained searches confirm her status as one of the most successful actuarial recruiters worldwide.

Risk Lighthouse LLC

Risk Lighthouse LLC is a research firm specializing in the development of economic risk intelligence, risk indices and modeling tools for the financial and insurance industries. We advise banks, insurance companies and regulatory agencies in various areas with our unique combination of research insights, analytical skills and practical experience. We conduct extensive research and development to address the risk modeling and valuation needs of clients arising in the fast-changing financial market and regulatory environment.

Society of Actuaries

The Society of Actuaries is a nonprofit professional society of more than 21,000 members involved in the modeling and management of financial risk and contingent events. The mission of the SOA is to advance actuarial knowledge and enhance the ability of actuaries to provide expert advice and relevant solutions for financial, business and societal problems involving uncertain future events.

Towers Watson

But more important, our perspective begins at eye level – with a clear understanding of your organization, the way you work, your goals and your challenges.

By connecting the big picture and your picture, we help you achieve real-world results.

Ultimate Risk Solutions

Ultimate Risk Solutions is a leading global provider of state-of-the-art Dynamic Financial Analysis software called Risk Explorer™ and other risk modelling software products for non-life re/insurance industry.

Risk Explorer™ is used BY INDUSTRY LEADERS for portfolio risk modelling, risk-based capital evaluation, ceded/assumed reinsurance analysis and regulatory compliance. Risk Explorer™ can be seamlessly integrated into your firm’s IT infrastructure.

RPM3 Solutions

rPM3 Solutions is a leading management consulting and solutions firm specializing in a strategic, yet practical approach to both risk and performance management (pioneering a patented and academically validated dollar measure of ERM programs). Since 2002, we have served our clients with distinction and professionalism. Leveraging the power of our patented ARQ™ measurement, we have created a robust management system that significantly enhances the quality of information for better decision-making – inspiring accelerated business performance.