Candidates for 2018 SOA Board of Directors Election Announced
At its June 23-24 meeting, the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Board of Directors approved the 2018 election ballot of endorsed candidates presented by the SOA Nominating Committee. Voting opens August 20 and closes September 7. Over the next few weeks, you will have many opportunities to learn about the candidates' backgrounds and how they would approach their service on the SOA Board. Voting is closed for the 2018 SOA elections.
The names of the SOA Board’s 2018 candidates follow in alphabetical order.
Candidates for President-Elect (one to be elected) are:
Roy Goldman, PhD, FSA 1980, MAAA, CERA (Endorsed)
Retired
Jacksonville Beach, FL
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Andrew D. Rallis, FSA 1992, MAAA (Endorsed)
MetLife, Inc.
EVP & Global Chief Actuary
Bridgewater, NJ
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Tom Bakos, FSA 1972, MAAA (By Petition)
Tom Bakos Consulting, LLC
President / Consulting Actuary
Ridgway, CO
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Candidates for Elected Board Member (five to be elected) are:

Carlos Arocha, FSA 2007 (Endorsed)
Arocha & Associates
Managing Partner
Zurich, Switzerland
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Julie A Curtis, FSA 1992, MAAA, EA (Endorsed)
Retired
Renton, WA
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Sivakumar Desai, FSA 2011, MAAA (Endorsed)
Unum
AVP - Business Analysis Actuary
Portland, ME
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David M. Dillon, FSA 2004, MAAA (Endorsed)
Lewis & Ellis, Inc.
Senior Vice President & Principal
Allen, TX
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Janet E. Duncan, FSA 2014, MAAA, FCAS (Endorsed)
University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Lecturer (Part-time)
Santa Barbara, CA
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Jennifer Anne Haid, FSA 2009, CFA (Endorsed)
AIG
VP Strategic Marketing & Product Development
New York, NY
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Peter C. Hayes, FSA 1989, FCIA (Endorsed)
Retired
Principal, Halifax NS
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Sara Corrough Teppema, FSA 2008, MAAA (Endorsed)
Health Care Service Corporation (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas)
DVP and Actuary, Provider Payment Innovation and Analytics
Chicago, IL
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Hans J. Wagner, FSA 1992 (Endorsed)
ICBC-AXA Life
Chief Actuary and Chief Risk Officer
Shanghai, China
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Ling-Ling Wang, FSA 1994, MAAA, CERA (Endorsed)
Retired
West Des Moines, Iowa
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Roger Loomis, FSA 2007, MAAA (By Petition)
Actuarial Resources Corporation
Principal
Overland Park, KS
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Martin Snow, FSA 1988, MAAA (By Petition)
Atidot Software Inc.| Atidot Software Ltd.
Vice-President & Chief Delivery Officer | Member Advisory Board
Edison, NJ
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Petition Process
Nominees who have completed an Expression of Interest form for SOA Board positions and who are not endorsed by the Nominating Committee may seek to be placed on the SOA Board’s election ballot through the petition process, which will be open July 5 to August 3. Eligible voting members will receive an email from Survey & Ballot Systems (SBS) on July 5 with a link and pass code to a website where they can submit a petition in support of any petitioners. Eligible voting members may support the petition of no more than one President-Elect office and no more than three nominees for Elected Board Member. Eligible nominees will need to receive petition support from 601 eligible voting members to attain a place on the election ballot. Petitioning nominees who receive the required level of petition support will be added to the final election ballot as a candidate for election and designated as a candidate "by petition." More information on the petitions process is available here.
If you have any questions about the ballot or the election process, please write to elections@soa.org.
Society of Actuaries Nominating Committee
Marc-André Giguère, FSA, FCIA, MAA, Chair
Erin J. Knopf, FSA, MAAA, Vice Chair
Elaine T. Corrough, FSA, MAAA, FCA
Jeffrey J. Drzazgowski, FSA, MAAA
C. Ian Genno, FSA, FCIA, CERA
Patricia L. Guinn, FSA, CERA, MAAA
Brian E. Pauley, FSA, MAAA
Larry N. Stern, FSA, MAAA
Donna K. Weninger, FSA, MAAA