Jean-Marc is Vice President, Research & Development-Biometric Risks for Optimum Re Insurance in Dallas TX. Jean-Marc is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries as well as a member of the American Academy of Actuaries. He has over 25 years of experience in the life insurance industry, including an extensive background in life and critical illness insurance product development. For the past decade and a half, he has focused on the topic of mortality and biometric risks and is currently active in a number of SOA committees centering on mortality and underwriting. Jean-Marc chairs the Living to 100 Symposium. He was the initial chair of the SOA Research Institute Mortality and Longevity Strategic Research Program Steering Committee. He is also a long time member of the Society of Actuaries’ Reinsurance Section Research Team. Finally, he is a member of ACLI’s Risk Classification Committee. He has spoken on a variety of underwriting, product design, claims and reinsurance topics as they relate to actuaries, underwriters and medical directors. He has written articles for On the Risk as well as various actuarial publications. He received a BA summa cum laude in Mathematics with minors in Chemistry and Computer Science from Whittier College in California.