Ryland Pigg

About Ryland Pigg

Recognized leader and Fellow of the Society of Actuaries. Health Valuation/Reserving experience (Appointed Actuary, orange blank). Experience formally leading single and multiple teams and developing high talent individuals and driving value, leading reorganizations and establishing strong team culture. Working Father of the Year (nominated by direct leader), and CEO Excellence Award for People Leaders winner (one of three leaders across the full enterprise that year, nominated by direct reports). Masters and Bachelors degrees in Statistics, MBA in Corporate Finance. Frequent community volunteer.Above all, a husband and father.

Experience

1. AVP, Head of Actuarial Services and Valuation

   Blue Cross NC

   Jun 2022 — Present

   Leadership and Change Management-Leads a broad organization of 19 employees, including two Core Reserving teams (Commercial Market & Government Market), a Value / Risk Adjustment Reserving and Operations team, and an Actuarial Systems team, and ensures efficiency across teams-Plays a lead role in attracting, hiring, and retaining top high performing talent-Maintains continuing education requirements as set by appropriate Actuarial governing bodies to issue Statements of Actuarial Opinion as the Appointed Actuary (orange blank)-Leads the Actuarial Development Program for full Actuarial Department and the full department\'s budgeting activities.Reserving and Value-based initiative Operations-Responsible for actuarial oversight of reserving for all business segments and subsidiaries in the company, as described under \"Director\" role below, as well as reserving for value-based initiatives-Responsible for actuarial operations for Value-based initiatives, including projections, financial settlements with providers, provider reporting, and customer billing for the company\'s flagship accountable care organization program, as well as other forms of incentive based payment arrangements-Partners effectively with accounting, Financial Planning and analysis, and healthcare to find solutions to improve financial reporting and analysis, and improves outcomes.Actuarial Systems-Responsible for oversight of data certification within the actuarial department, coordinating across all actuarial areas, including Pricing, data analytics and trend setting, program evaluation and measurement, reserving, and Value-based initiatives to align on data and process needs to enable and streamline all actuarial functions-Ensures close collaboration and communication with other data and analytics delivery areas outside of actuarial to ensure that data and processes are continuously improved and efficient across the enterprise.

Education

• North Carolina State University - College of Management

  MBA, Financial Management Concentration

  2011 — 2013

• North Carolina State University

  Master’s Degree, Statistics

  2015

• North Carolina State University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Statistics

  2004 — 2010

• North Carolina State University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Applied Mathematics, Financial Math Concentration

  2008 — 2010

Skills

• Sas/Sql
• Teaching Experience
• Spanish
• Statistical Modeling
• Organizing
• Preparedness
• Excel
• Word
• Powerpoint
• Google Docs
• Team Leadership
• Organizational Leadership
• Training Skills
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Decision Analysis
• Sas Enterprise Guide
• Sas Programming
• R
• Winbugs
• Leadership
• Microsoft Excel
• Sas
• Microsoft Word
• Training
• Time Series Analysis
• Logistic Regression
• Analysis
• Actuarial Science
• Predictive Modeling
• Data Analysis
• Linear Regression
• Predictive Analytics
• Management
• Statistics
• Analytical Skills