The key to any successful organization is its people. Edgewater continues to build a great team with unrivalled depth of industry expertise in the captive insurance arena. Our people are smart, results-oriented, and committed to our clients’ success. We can provide unique perspectives across a wide range of business challenges faced by captive insurance companies. Combining creative thinking with a practical approach, we help our captive clients make more informed decisions that deliver results.
Our senior team members include credentialled actuaries and business leaders regarded as experts in captive insurance:
Bob Effinger
FCAS, MAAA - President
Bob leads Edgewater Actuarial and has over 35 years of actuarial and insurance industry experience. He is an innovative actuarial executive that is recognized as a flexible and creative leader with a track record for finding new ways to apply actuarial science to complex problems. A strong communicator with expertise in strategic and financial analytics, reinsurance, pricing, reserving, robotics, cognitive computing, data visualization, management reporting, and data management.
James Marshall
PhD, FCAS - Chief Actuary
James has been in the insurance industry since 2004 with experience in traditional actuarial analysis, including pricing and reserving in the UK and USA. He has extensive experience in actuarial teams working across multiple lines of business. More recently, James led digital finance transformation for a large insurer, driving automation and process improvement initiatives across the Finance function using a range of approaches including data analytics software, machine learning techniques and robotics.
Nathan Bluhm
FCAS, MAAA – Director and Consulting Actuary
Nathan has been working in the property/casualty industry since 1999. He has extensive experience in loss reserving and pricing with a focus on the workers compensation, general liability and automobile lines of business, including eight years as a captive pricing actuary for a large insurer. Nathan has also proven to be a strong people manager, driving successful performance and career development within a team environment.
Simone Walker
FCAS, MAAA – Sr. Consulting Actuary
Simone is a strong people leader with almost 20 years of actuarial experience with leading P&C companies within the insurance industry. She has held various actuarial roles within Personal Lines Pricing, Product Management, Warranty Reserving, and Commercial Lines Pricing, Reserving and Financial Reporting. Throughout her career, she has remained committed to increasing awareness of the actuarial profession in underserved communities and continues to advance inclusive efforts across the actuarial profession at large.