Jay Vadiveloo

Jay Vadiveloo is a Senior Consulting Actuary in the Towers Watson Risk & Financial Services practice in Hartford, CT, and is also Professor and Director of the recently endowed Janet & Mark L. Goldenson Center for Actuarial Research at the University of Connecticut.

As Director of the Goldenson Center, Jay has channeled his actuarial expertise and 25 years of experience with the life insurance industry to initiate an exciting and innovative initiative focused on Enterprise Risk Management for Small Businesses, where graduate students in actuarial science are funded by the Center to conduct ERM projects for small businesses in the region.

Jay has a doctorate in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley, is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA), a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA), and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). Jay has over 25 years of experience with the life insurance industry which includes senior level appointments at Connecticut Mutual, Mass Mutual, Aetna Financial Services, ING, Deloitte Consulting, Watson Wyatt and currently, Towers Watson.

Jay has published several articles in the actuarial literature, is a frequent speaker at actuarial conferences and seminars, and has managed several major mortality and morbidity experience studies projects for the Society of Actuaries. One of Jay’s important contributions to the financial services industry in general is a new algorithm for risk modeling (patent pending) that he invented which exponentially reduces processing time at a pre-determined accuracy level for any complex actuarial modeling.