Mark J. Backe
Chair: NOLHGA Board of Directors
Vice President – Insurance and Operations Counsel: The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company

Mark Backe is the Vice President and Insurance and Operations Counsel of The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. In this role, he oversees a team of attorneys responsible for providing counsel relating to the company’s manufacture and servicing of its insurance products; advertising and marketing; client services; vendor risk management; information protection and cybersecurity; and digital solutions for the company’s clients, employees, and financial representatives. He also serves as the secretary to the Distribution and Technology Committee of the Company’s Board of Trustees.

Mr. Backe joined the company in 2001 as an Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary. His practice has recently focused on state and federal regulatory issues; regulatory reform initiatives at the state, federal, and international levels; guaranty association issues; and governance matters. Prior to joining Northwestern Mutual, Mr. Backe was General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for United Government Services, LLC, a Medicare fiscal intermediary and a subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield United of Wisconsin. Before that he served as a Staff Attorney and Assistant Corporate Compliance Officer for the Wisconsin Blue Plan. He began his career as a Litigation Associate with the law firm Godfrey & Kahn, S.C., in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Marquette University and his Juris Doctor degree, with honors, from the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Mr. Backe has been active within the ACLI as a member of the Receivership Committee, the Insurance Regulation Committee, the Global Regulatory Modernization Committee, and in other roles. He has served on the Boards of several state guaranty associations, and he currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Organization of Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Associations. He represents Northwestern Mutual on the Board of the Illinois Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association, and he is also a director of the Wisconsin Equal Justice Fund. He lives in Milwaukee and has two adult sons.


Bart A. Boles
Executive Director: Texas Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association
Bart Boles is the Executive Director of the Texas Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association. He began his insurance career in 1987 as a field examiner for the Texas Department of Insurance, conducting triennial examinations of life, accident, and health insurers; property and casualty insurers; and health maintenance organizations. His involvement in the management of the Texas guaranty association began in 1988 when he transferred into the Liquidation Division of the Department, where he participated in the takeover of insolvent insurers; managed all policy administration functions for the insolvent insurers; supervised the identification and collection of reinsurance recoveries; and marketed, negotiated, and drafted assumption reinsurance transactions on behalf of the association.

When the Texas Legislature privatized the management and day-to-day operations of the guaranty association in 1992, Mr. Boles left the Texas Department of Insurance and became an employee of the association. He served as Vice President of Foreign Estates and managed all the association’s activities for insolvencies domiciled in other states.

In 1997, the guaranty association converted from being employee-managed to a consulting firm–managed structure with the management consulting and third-party administration firm LaShelle, Coffman & Boles (LCB), providing total management services to the association. LCB also provided third-party administration services to self-funded health plans and other life and health guaranty associations and was the initial management firm for the Texas Health Insurance Risk Pool. Mr. Boles was a partner in the firm.

In 2003, the Texas guaranty association changed back to an employee-managed structure, and Mr. Boles was named the association’s Executive Director.

Mr. Boles began serving as the association’s liaison to the National Organization of Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Associations (NOLHGA) in September 1990. His NOLHGA work has included serving as one of the “core members” of the Disposition Committee, which was the precursor to the Members’ Participation Council (MPC); two terms on the MPC Executive Committee; service on over 40 NOLHGA insolvency task forces (7 as Chair); the Y2K Contingency Planning Committee; Chair of the Shelf Alternative Products Committee; the Pandemic Study Group; Health Insurance Privacy Committee; the Guaranty System Modernization Task Force (including Chair of its Assessment Subgroup); the Communications Committee; and the Audit Committee. He also served three terms as Chair of the MPC, which oversees all multi-state insolvency task forces, and as an ex officio member of the NOLHGA Board of Directors. He is currently again serving on the NOLHGA Board of Directors.

Mr. Boles is a past-President of the International Association of Insurance Receivers’ Board of Directors. He also holds the Accredited Insurance Receiver designation from IAIR, specializing in Guaranty Associations. He is a native Texan with a BBA in Finance from Texas State University-San Marcos.


John C. Colpean
Administrator & General Counsel: Michigan Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association

John Colpean is the Administrator and General Counsel of the Michigan Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association and is also a former member of the NOLHGA Board of Directors. He is also the Principal of Colpean & Associates, P.C., a law firm based in Haslett, Michigan.

Mr. Colpean served as legal counsel to the Michigan Legislature from 1978–1988. After entering private practice in 1988, he has concentrated his practice on matters pertaining to insurance regulation, transactions, and litigation, in addition to serving on the Board of Directors of several insurance companies. He has also served on the Insurance Law Committee of the State Bar of Michigan.

Mr. Colpean has served on numerous NOLHGA task forces, including serving as Chair of the Thunor Trust Task Force and as a member of the ELNY Task Force, among others. He also served as Chair of the Members’ Participation Council (2012–2015), Legal Committee (1997–2001), and Coverage/Claims Committee (2005 to the present).


Robert Edsel
Author and Founder & President: Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art

Robert Edsel, a former nationally ranked tennis player and pioneering oilman, is recognized today as one of the world’s foremost advocates for art preservation. While living in Florence, he developed a great passion for art and architecture and became curious as to how so many of the monuments and great works of art survived the thefts and devastation of World War II. What began as a question evolved into an impassioned journey to unravel the secrets and heroics of the Monuments Men, the unsung heroes who saved the world’s greatest art and cultural treasures for the benefit of civilization. Mr. Edsel has dedicated the last 10 years of his life to the meticulous research of these cultural heroes, which culminated in Edsel’s New York Times best-selling book, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History.

George Clooney wrote, directed, and stars in the film adaptation of The Monuments Men, which hit theaters to rave reviews in February 2014. The film features an all-star cast including Clooney, Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, and Bob Balaban.

Mr. Edsel is the Founder and President of the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, a not-for-profit entity. The Foundation was one of 10 recipients of the 2007 National Humanities Medal, the highest honor given by the United States for excellence in the Humanities field.

Hunting Nazi Treasure is an eight-part investigative documentary television series that takes the clues of the Monuments Men and Women and continues their mission searching for some of the hundreds of thousands of works of art and cultural treasures missing since the end of World War II. Think of it as “America’s Most Wanted for culture.” Robert Edsel and his team of investigators have traveled to 12 countries around the globe, determined to reunite long-sought treasures with their rightful owners. Hunting Nazi Treasure debuted in the United Kingdom and Canada in the fall of 2017 and in May 2018 in the United States and elsewhere around the globe.


William Ernest Falck
Executive Director & General Counsel: Florida Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association

William Falck is the Executive Director & General Counsel of the Florida Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association, a position he has held since 1983. He served as Chair of NOLHGA’s Members’ Participation Council (MPC) from 2000–2003 and also served on the NOLHGA Board of Directors from 2006–2011. He has served as the Task Force Chair for three multi-state insolvencies and has served on more than 60 NOLHGA task forces and committees as well. In conjunction with then–Ohio Administrator Frank Gartland, Mr. Falck drafted the original MPC Rules and Procedures and the MPC Multi-State Insolvency Guidelines.

Mr. Falck has served as Director of the Florida Supreme Court Research Pool and as an Executive Assistant to Florida Supreme Court Chief Justices. He was a contributor to the Florida Law Revision Council Project establishing the foundation for the Florida Administrative Code Hearing Officer program and the Reporter for the Florida Law Revision Council’s Florida Eminent Domain Law Revision Project. In his general law practice, he has appeared in both Florida and federal courts and also served as the General Counsel for University Medical Center (with 500 doctors and 1,500 nurses) from 1982–2000.

Mr. Falck received his B.A. from Florida State University and his J.D. from the University of Florida. He is a Fellow with the Institute for Court Management.


John J. Falkenbach
Executive Director: Delaware Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association

Jack Falkenbach is Executive Director of the Delaware Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association. He is Of Counsel with the Woody Law Office, a Media, Pennsylvania, general practice law firm. Mr. Falkenbach also regularly serves as a hearing officer for matters before the Delaware Insurance Department. He previously served as Executive Director of the Delaware Insurance Guaranty Association (P&C). Other prior positions he has held have included Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of Continental American Life Insurance Company and Counsel to CIGNA Corporation.

Mr. Falkenbach serves on or chairs several NOLHGA insolvency task forces, is a past Chair of NOLHGA’s Members’ Participation Council, and is a past member of NOLHGA’s Board of Directors. He serves or chairs various NOLHGA committees and task forces and is the Chairman and Secretary of the Guaranty Association Benefits Company (GABC). He has been a speaker or panelist at various meetings and seminars, including functions of NOLHGA, the NCIGF, the Society of Financial Examiners, and the International Association of Insurance Receivers.

Mr. Falkenbach has a B.S. in Business Administration from Drexel University and received his Juris Doctor and LL.M. (taxation) degrees from Temple University School of Law.


Bruce Ferguson
Senior Vice President, State Relations: American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI)

Bruce Ferguson is Senior Vice President, State Relations at the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI). He oversees ACLI’s legislative and regulatory advocacy at all levels of state government, including organizations such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) and associations of state legislatures and governors. A 30-year veteran of the ACLI, Mr. Ferguson works with a team of 11 state advocates with extensive experience in advocating ACLI’s mission and policies in state capitals across the nation. He is also responsible for the ACLI’s legislative and regulatory compliance services, a comprehensive clearinghouse of compliance-related legal, regulatory and administrative information in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

A prolific writer and speaker on state issues of importance to the life insurance industry, Mr. Ferguson is on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Insurance Regulation. Prior to joining ACLI, he worked in the energy and environmental law practice at the Crowell & Moring law firm. He also served as Vice President of State Affairs for the Health Insurance Association of America. A native Michigander, he received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Michigan.


Peter G. Gallanis
President: NOLHGA

Peter Gallanis became President of the National Organization of Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Associations (NOLHGA) in April 1999. NOLHGA was formed in 1983 to coordinate the activities of its 51 member state guaranty associations and their member companies (comprising the entire U.S. life and health insurance industry) in connection with insolvencies of multi-state life and health insurers. Mr. Gallanis is generally responsible for all the financial, legal, strategic, educational, communications, and administrative services that NOLHGA provides to its membership.

Before joining NOLHGA in 1999, Mr. Gallanis was the Special Deputy Insurance Receiver for the State of Illinois, where he managed the administration of approximately 80 insolvent domestic insurers of all types. Prior to that, Mr. Gallanis was a partner in a large law firm in Chicago, where he was in private practice from 1978 through 1991.

Mr. Gallanis also served as Adjunct Professor of Insurance Law at the DePaul University College of Law in Chicago from 1992 until he joined NOLHGA in 1999. He received a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago in 1975 and a law degree from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1978. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois.

Mr. Gallanis has frequently participated in trial and appellate court receivership proceedings, both on behalf of parties and as amicus curiae. He has lectured and published often on insurance topics in the United States and abroad. In addition, he has testified on insurance matters before a number of courts, state legislatures, the Congress, the NAIC, and the IAIS and FSB.


Mike Kreidler
Commissioner: Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner

Mike Kreidler is Washington’s eighth insurance commissioner. A former member of Congress, he was first elected as insurance commissioner in 2000. He was re-elected to a fifth term in 2016.

A doctor of optometry with a Master’s degree in public health from UCLA, Commissioner Kreidler practiced at Group Health Cooperative in Olympia for 20 years. He also served 16 years in the Washington State Legislature. He served as a member of the Northwest Power Planning Council and as regional director for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He retired as a lieutenant colonel from the Army Reserves with 20 years of service.

Commissioner Kreidler is a staunch advocate for consumer protection. He earned the “Excellence in Consumer Advocacy Award” from consumer advisors to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).

Throughout his career, Commissioner Kreidler has been passionate about achieving health care coverage for all Washingtonians and has led the efforts to implement the Affordable Care Act in the state. He worked with state lawmakers to close a waiting-period loophole that was endangering the lives of organ-transplant patients.

Since 2007, Commissioner Kreidler has chaired the NAIC’s Climate Change and Global Warming Work Group. He led a successful push for insurers to disclose if and how they are preparing for the potential risks associated with climate change.



Michael C. Marchman
Executive Director: Georgia Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association

Mike Marchman has been with the Georgia Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association since 1992 and with the Georgia Insurers Insolvency Pool since 1984; he has served as Executive Director of both since 1997. He also served as Deputy Receiver for the Georgia Department of Insurance, responsible for 16 insolvent domestic insurance company estates (6 of which were life and health) and more than 40 ancillary estates from 1991 through 1995. He is again serving in that capacity.

Mr. Marchman served as Chair of the Members’ Participation Council (MPC) and on the NOLHGA Board of Directors. He served for several years on the MPC Executive Committee and as Chairman of the American Life Assurance Company, Settlers Life Insurance Company, Lumbermens Insurance Group, and Universal Health Care Insurance Company Task Forces. He also served as a member numerous insolvency task forces, such as Coastal States, Centennial Life, Confederation Life, Reliance, Legion, Penn Treaty/ANIC, and ELNY. He has served on the Communications Committee, Audit Committee, Pandemic Study Group, and NOLHGA Privacy Group and was a longstanding member of the Accounting Issues Committee.

Mr. Marchman has served on the Board of Directors of the National Conference of Insurance Guaranty Funds (NCIGF) since 1995 and as Chairman for 2004–2005. He also served on numerous coordinating committees (similar to NOLHGA’s task forces) and on several other NCIGF committees. He served on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Insurance Receivers (IAIR) from 1995 to 2004 and was IAIR's Treasurer for two years. He has also received and maintains IAIR's Certified Insurance Receiver - Multiple Lines designation. He served as Georgia’s representative to the NAIC insolvency committees from 1991 through 1995, serving on numerous working groups and task forces.



Pamela E. Olsen, Esq.
General Counsel & Administrator: Nebraska Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association

Pamela Olsen is General Counsel and Administrator for the Nebraska Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association, having served in these capacities since 2003. She is also a partner in the law firm of Cline Williams Wright Johnson & Oldfather, LLP, where her practice focuses on insurance, general litigation, appellate litigation, estate planning, and elder law–related (including long-term care) matters.

Ms. Olsen’s work with the National Organization of Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Associations (“NOLHGA”) includes current service as the Members’ Participation Council (MPC) Chair; membership on the NOLHGA Board, Legal Committee, MPC Executive Committee, MPC Health CO-OP Task Force, and the GABC Board; service as Chair of the MPC Executive Committee Best Practices Subgroup; and past membership on the NOLHGA Security Advisory Committee and the Administrators Education Steering Committee. Ms. Olsen has also served on a number of insolvency task forces, chairing both the CoOportunity Health Task Force and the Medical Savings Task Force.

Ms. Olsen received her Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, graduating with highest distinction in 1993; earned her Juris Doctor degree magna cum laude from Creighton University School of Law in 1996; and served as judicial clerk for both the Chief Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court (1996–1997) as well as for the Honorable George Fagg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1998¬–2000).


Margaret M. Parker
Executive Director: Virginia Life, Accident & Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association

Peggy Parker is Executive Director of the Virginia Life, Accident & Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association, a position she has held since October 1992. Prior to joining the association, she worked 24 years for The Life Insurance Company of Virginia (now Genworth Life and Annuity Insurance Company) where, at the time she left, she held the position of Director—Government Relations. In January 1999, she and a partner formed APM Management Services, Inc. APM provides administration and accounting services to the Virginia guaranty association and two other state guaranty associations.

Ms. Parker was Chairman of NOLHGA’s Members’ Participation Council (MPC) from 1997–2000 and also served as a member of NOLHGA's Board of Directors during this time. She served on the Board of Directors of Guaranty Reassurance Corporation, the Florida-domiciled company owned by the state life and health insurance guaranty associations, from 1997–2000. She has completed two years of a five-year term on the LTC Re Board of Directors.

Ms. Parker has also served on NOLHGA’s Administrators Education Steering Committee, the Year 2000 Insolvency Contingency Plan Committee, the Communications Committee, and the ad hoc committee to interview and recommend to the NOLHGA Board a candidate for President of NOLHGA in 1999. She served two additional three-year terms on the NOLHGA Board from 2012–2014 and 2015–2017 and was Secretary to the Board and a member of the Board’s Executive Committee from 2014¬2017.

Ms. Parker assumed the role of Chairman of the NOLHGA Task Forces for Consumers United Insurance Company (Delaware) and First Capital Life Insurance Company (California). She briefly chaired the Task Force for Fidelity Bankers Life Insurance Company (Virginia). She served as a member of the NOLHGA Task Forces for The Investment Life Insurance Company of America (North Carolina) and Settlers Life Insurance Company (Virginia) and currently serves as a member of the following NOLHGA Task Forces: Penn Treaty/American Network (Pennsylvania) and Reliance Insurance Company (Pennsylvania).

Ms. Parker is a native of Richmond, Virginia, and a graduate of the University of Richmond.


Karen Shaw Petrou
Managing Partner: Federal Financial Analytics, Inc.

Karen Shaw Petrou is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Federal Financial Analytics, Inc., a privately held company that since 1985 has provided analytical and advisory services on legislative, regulatory, and public-policy issues affecting financial services companies doing business in the United States and abroad. Central banks, financial regulators, vendors, and financial-industry investors also rely on the firm’s advisory services. The firm’s practice is a unique blend of strategic advice and policy analysis that does not include lobbying or any other projects that would compromise its objectivity and independence.

Ms. Petrou was dubbed by the American Banker in 2012 the “sharpest mind analyzing banking policy today—maybe ever.” In 2017, the International Monetary Fund referred to her as “one of the most prominent non-governmental voices on financial regulation.” She is a frequent speaker on topics affecting the financial services industry. In addition to presentations to the U.S. Congress and U.S. government agencies, she has spoken before such organizations as the Japanese Diet; the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; various Federal Reserve Banks; the Economist’s Buttonwood conference; the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association; the American Bankers Association; The Clearing House; the Financial Services Roundtable; the Institute of International Bankers; the Conference of State Bank Supervisors; the Brookings Institution; and many other industry, academic, and policy-maker audiences. She has also authored numerous articles in professional publications such as the American Banker and International Economy, as well as general-interest media like The New York Times and Wall Street Journal. She appears frequently in the media as an expert on banking legislation and regulation.

Prior to founding her own firm in 1985, Ms. Petrou worked in Washington as an officer at Bank of America, where she began her career in 1977. She is an honors graduate in Political Science from Wellesley College and also was a special student in an honors program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned an M.A. in that subject from the University of California at Berkeley and was a doctoral candidate there. She has served on the Boards of banking organizations and sits as a director on the Board of the Foundation Fighting Blindness and the Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation.



Therese M. (“Terri”) Vaughan
Robb B. Kelley Visiting Distinguished Professor of Insurance and Actuarial Science: Drake University’s College of Business and Public Administration

Dr. Vaughan is an internationally recognized expert in insurance regulation and currently the Robb B. Kelley Visiting Distinguished Professor of Insurance and Actuarial Science at Drake University’s College of Business and Public Administration. From 2009 to 2012, she was the CEO of the NAIC, where she led the NAIC’s response to the financial crisis. In addition to domestic efforts, she represented the U.S. insurance regulatory system internationally as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) and of the steering committing for the U.S./E.U. Insurance Dialogue Project. In 2012, she chaired the Joint Forum, a Basel, Switzerland–based group of banking, insurance, and securities supervisors. She currently serves as a director of Verisk Analytics, Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and the American Institute for CPCU.

Prior to joining the NAIC, Dr. Vaughan spent time in both academia, as the Robb B. Kelley Distinguished Professor of Insurance and Actuarial Science at Drake University, and in regulation, as Iowa Insurance Commissioner and NAIC President. She is the longest-serving and first female insurance commissioner in Iowa. During her years in regulation, Dr. Vaughan led a number of modernization efforts, including financial data reengineering, development of the life insurance interstate compact, producer licensing reform, solvency modernization, and others.

Dr. Vaughan earned a Ph.D. in risk and insurance at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.B.A. in insurance and economics at the University of Iowa. She is the co-author of two college textbooks on insurance, a past editor of the Journal of Insurance Regulation, and a past president of the American Risk and Insurance Association. She has earned the designations Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), Associate of Actuaries (ASA), Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society (ACAS), and Member of the Academy of Actuaries (MAAA).

Dr. Vaughan has been recognized as one of the Top 25 Living Legends of Insurance (National Underwriter, 2012), Top 50 Women in the Insurance Industry (Reactions magazine, 2014), Distinguished Fellow of the IAIS (2013), Insurance Woman of the Year (Association of Professional Insurance Women, 2014), and one of 24 insurance industry key influencers (Best’s Review, 2016).


Susan E. Voss
Incoming Chair: NOLHGA Board of Directors
Vice President & General Counsel: American Enterprise Group

Susan Voss grew up in Fairfield, Iowa. A lifelong Iowan, she graduated from Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, with a B.A. in History. She attended Gonzaga University School of Law in Spokane, Washington, receiving her J.D. in 1981. She worked for 31 years in Iowa state government, with the last 20 at the Iowa Insurance Division.

During her time as an insurance regulator, Ms. Voss was instrumental in creating a system of mediation services for homeowners during the floods in 1993 and 2008 that devastated thousands of homes in Iowa. She was a member of several healthcare reform committees in the mid-1990s, culminating in small and individual health insurance reform statutes in Iowa that were the basis of model legislation at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). She served as First Deputy Insurance Commissioner from 1999 to 2004.

In 2005, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack appointed her Iowa Insurance Commissioner. She served as Commissioner for three Governors—two Democrats and one Republican. She was elected by her peers as an officer of the NAIC in 2007 and served as its President in 2011. She was the Chair of the Market Conduct and Regulation Committee as well as the Principles-Based Reserving Working Group. She also served on the Life and Annuities Committee, the Financial Condition Committee, and the Financial Regulation Standards and Accreditation Committee.

Ms. Voss was a member of the International Insurance Committee at the NAIC and chaired the committee in 2012. During her tenure on the committee, she represented state insurance regulatory interests at the OECD, ASSAL, EIOPA, CIRC, and IAIS. She was the insurance representative at several Strategic and Economic Summits between China and the United States.

Ms. Voss worked closely on legislation included in the Dodd-Frank Act to exempt certain annuities from SEC oversight. Throughout her tenure as Commissioner and particularly during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, she met regularly with Treasury officials to affect better regulatory cooperation and understanding of financial issues. She testified before Congress on several occasions regarding state-based insurance regulation.

Ms. Voss has received several recognitions over the years, including Des Moines Business Record Woman of Influence, Simpson College Hall of Fame, Fairfield High School Hall of Fame, and her recent induction into the Iowa Insurance Hall of Fame in 2013. After providing insurance consulting services for about a year, she joined American Enterprise Group, Inc., as Vice President and General Counsel.

Ms. Voss serves on the Board of Directors of the United Fire Group, Inc., a property-casualty insurance company. She is also a member of the Board of the National Organization of Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Associations (NOLHGA).


Kristen Walter Wright
Vice President of Actuarial Analysis: Cambia Health Solutions

Kristen Walter Wright is Vice President of Actuarial Analysis for Cambia Health Solutions and Regence BlueCross BlueShield, providing healthcare coverage to members and their families in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Utah. Prior to joining Cambia in 2005, she served in a variety of actuarial roles within the insurance industry. She currently serves as Board chair of the Washington State Health Insurance Pool (WSHIP), the high-risk health insurance pool for the state of Washington.

Ms. Walter Wright is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.