Knowledgeable experts. Thoughtful answers.

Mark Schulte,

FSA, EA, MAAA, FCA

Consulting Actuary, President

Mark is a consulting actuary and owner of the firm. He’s known for his teaching skills, and he loves helping others understand and solve tough problems. Mark keeps us up to date on new developments in the pension and retiree medical fields, and his latest pursuit is developing new ideas for strengthening our nation’s public sector pension and OPEB systems.

Gina Ganab,

ASA, EA, MAAA, FCA

Consulting Actuary, Vice President

Gina is a consulting actuary known for her professionalism and attention to detail. She’s a key member of the VIA leadership team and helps guide our business development. She has been instrumental in growing our firm’s California pension and OPEB consulting practice through her participation at conferences and focus on California public agencies.

Emily Knutson,

FSA, EA, MAAA, FCA

Consulting Actuary

Emily is a consulting actuary known for both fast turnaround and quality work. She supervises the development of our internal actuarial reporting templates, and she’s an expert in both private and public sector actuarial work.

Scott Striegel,

FSA, EA, MAAA

Consulting Actuary

Scott is a consulting actuary who is always looking for the next challenge. His actuarial experience has centered on private sector pension and OPEB valuations, financial reporting, and pension risk transfer strategies. Scott is leveraging that experience with his recent work on public sector retirement plans.

Emily Erickson,

ASA, MAAA, FCA

Consulting Actuary

Emily is a consulting actuary known for her health plan expertise. She leads our OPEB practice and oversees our health claims analysis tools and trend rate models. With her extensive health insurance background, Emily always has the answer to our retiree medical questions.

Brenda Hardy,

ASA, EA, MAAA

Consulting Actuary

Brenda is a consulting actuary known for her focus and business acumen. She led our firm into public sector retiree medical work years before GASB issued its first statements, and she specializes in both public sector OPEB and large employers’ financial reporting.

Peter Cullen,

EA, MAAA

Consulting Actuary

Pete is a consulting actuary known for his insight and technical expertise. He enjoys developing creative solutions and helping his clients optimize their retirement plans. When Pete talks we all listen because he’ll bring a thoughtful new perspective to the discussion.

Melanie Carlson

Senior Actuarial Manager

Melanie is a senior actuarial manager known for her efficiency, process improvements, and attention to detail. She has over 20 years of experience in retirement benefits consulting. Melanie has worked on hundreds of pension and retiree healthcare plans (large and small employers, public and private sector) doing actuarial work, benefits administration, and overseeing project management.

Aaron Driessen

Actuarial Manager

Aaron is an actuarial manager known for his problem-solving skills and can-do spirit. He has extensive experience with both public and private sector pension and OPEB plans.

Ben Mayer,

ASA, MAAA

Actuarial Manager

Ben is an actuarial manager known for his diligence and willingness to tackle our most complex projects. His enthusiasm for actuarial work is contagious. He is currently applying his skills primarily on private sector pension plans.