Our team
Bill Hansen, FCAS, MAAA, CERA
Founder & Principal
With over 35 years of experience, Bill’s actuarial expertise spans the full spectrum of pricing, reserving, and risk management. On top of 12 years of actuarial consulting with Oliver Wyman, Bill’s experience also includes leading the ERM and Reserving functions at insuretech Root and serving as VP of Risk Management and Chief Actuary for State Auto, where he led all of the actuarial, reinsurance, reporting, and risk modeling functions for the multi-line insurer.
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Jeff Scholl, FCAS, MAAA
Principal
With over 25 years of actuarial consulting experience, Jeff's client focus is on loss reserving for property and casualty lines including workers' compensation, auto liability, general liability, property, medical & professional liability, and construction defect liability. He also has deep expertise in self-insured programs for large corporations and captives, providing loss forecasting, loss funding, collateral estimates, and reserving analyses, as well as retention and insurance optimization decisions.
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Samantha Taylor, FCAS, MAAA
Director & Actuary
Samantha's work experience ranges from startup insurance operations to large multi-line insurance companies. She has a proven track record in developing insurance pricing models, rating plan reviews, and conducting reserving analyses. She also has deep expertise in building and using telematics for insurance pricing. Her 15 years of actuarial experience spans the gamut of property & casualty lines of insurance, with expertise in commercial auto and other commercial lines products.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-taylor-48352440
Matthew has deep expertise in reserving and loss funding for property and casualty loss exposures. He has over 26 years of actuarial consulting expertise supporting self-insured corporations and captive insurers with programs in workers' compensation, professional liability, and healthcare exposures, His projects include loss reserving studies, loss funding, loss forecasting, captive feasibility studies, and economic cost of risk analysis for alternative insurance options.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-gatsch-a86a3561
Matthew Gatsch, ACAS
Director & Actuary
Stacey Bitler, ACAS
Associate Actuary
Stacey brings a unique perspective with her mix of actuarial, pricing, and product management experience. During her 24 years with a large regional carrier, she served as both an Actuarial Manager and Product Director for personal lines insurance products.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacey-bitler-acas-649a802a7
Kristen Creek
Senior Actuarial Analyst
Kristen has worked in both personal and commercial lines of business including: automobile, homeowners, workers’ compensation, professional liability, property and general liability, and products liability. Prior to joining Hansen Actuarial, she worked at Root Insurance Company as an actuarial analyst on the reserving team, and previously as an intern on their pricing team.
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Bryan Croft
Chief of Staff
Bryan supports our business operations and strategy. With a background in actuarial, data science, and software engineering recruitment, he also leads our hiring and talent development programs. Don't hesitate to reach out to discuss any of our current or potential career opportunities!
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