Lawrence Watts Email & Phone Number

Dresher, PA, US

Dresher, PA, US

• Consultant and leader of FuturePlan’s Atlanta-based actuarial teams.
• Leader responsible for guiding Atlanta team through acquisition-related integration, COVID-19 pandemic, office closure, and departure of a substantial portion of Nyhart’s former leadership group. Expanded leadership.
• Subject matter expert and key firm resource for governmental pension plans. Continued to serve as lead consultant and primary contact to more than 30 of Nyhart’s public-sector pension clients post-acquisition.
• Diligently worked to improve firm revenue and profitability as actuarial sales resource for Nyhart’s consulting teams. Proactively renegotiated unfavorable contracts, expanded existing client relationships in several.
• Represented Nyhart and FuturePlan at public-sector conferences and pension trustees’ schools in Florida and Georgia. Provided thought leadership through participation in panel discussions, developing accredited.
• Maintained world-class NPS feedback from clients despite numerous staff departures and reshuffling of service teams. Participated as member of interview committees for more than a dozen new team members, ranging from.

Indianapolis, IN, US

• Consulting actuary and leader of Nyhart’s Atlanta office.
• Manager responsible for stabilizing business after complete turnover of staff and substantial loss of institutional knowledge. Cemented client relationships, represented firm at industry conferences through speaking.
• Lead consultant and primary contact to many of Nyhart’s public-sector pension clients, particularly in Florida and Georgia. Managed client communications, board meetings, deliverables, contract negotiations, and.
• Mentor to actuarial staff, overseeing work and responsibilities of six direct reports, including two credentialed actuaries. In addition to serving the Atlanta client base, staff supported projects in Nyhart’s San.

Little Rock, AR, US

• Consultant focusing mainly on public pensions and retirement legislation. Major and particularly interesting responsibilities include:
• Actuarial consultant to the Arkansas Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs. Analyze legislation to provide actuarial cost estimates and fiscal impact studies; bills affect all of Arkansas'.
• Contact and primary actuarial support for annual valuations and oversight of approximately 150 local fire and police pension plans in Arkansas. Also create Monte Carlo simulations of investment returns and cash flow.
• Actuarial support responsible for calculating annual allocations of approximately $60 million in insurance premium tax revenues to municipalities in Arkansas. Allocation process involves calculation of actuarial.
• Actuarial consultant to Arkansas legislative task force directed to analyze structural changes in the state's two large self-insured health plans for long-term solvency. Analyzed past and projected future claims.
• Consultant to local government seeking to improve benefits of its pension plan for non-uniformed employees (approximately 1,000 participants). Organized focus groups to collect feedback from city employees, analyzed.

A.B., Mathematics

Master Of Business Administration

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