2005 Exhibitors
The CAS wishes to thank the following organizations for their generous support of the 2005 Special Interest Seminar on Predictive Modeling. Please take a few moments to visit the exhibitors in Cotillion South on the 2nd floor of the Westin Michigan Avenue Chicago Hotel.

EMB America, LLC

EMB America is part of the worldwide EMB family. EMB offers a full range of consulting services to an extensive worldwide client base and is widely recognized for providing expert advice and developing innovative solutions. The EMB family is dedicated to the concept of “Knowledge Transfer,” which means EMB not only solves problems facing out clients, but also gives companies the tools and knowledge to handle similar problems in the future. To that end, EMB has developed state-of-the-art-software products that companies can license to address a variety of issues including:

• EMBLEM-a GLM tool for risk, marketing and claims modeling
• Rate Assessor-a pricing implementation tool
• Classifier – a tool for high-dimensional variables like territorial boundary analysis
• IGLOO- a financial simulation for enterprise risk modeling
• ResQ- the complete loss reserving tool
• And others …

Please stop by our booth for more information about our products and / or services.

Serhat Guven, Tom Hettinger, Dave Otto, Jeff Kucera and Geoff Werner will be exhibiting at the Seminar on Predictive Modeling on behalf of EMB America, LLC.

EQUBITS

EQUBITS is a market leader in providing easy to use, accurate, interpretable and automated Support Vector Machine (SVM) based predictive intelligence and analytics software. EQUBITS ForesightT is an easy to use desktop and enterprise predictive intelligence and analytics software built on SVM technology that provides high predictive accuracy, interpretation and discovery.

Equbits Foresight empowers decision makers and data mining professionals within financial institutions to gain significantly more accurate insight and foresight into their data and understand the reasons for the various business outcomes, trends and behaviors.

Foresight can be used to classify populations based on model data and predict the relative risk when compared to a population. Unlike linear methods, Foresight does not assume that features are independent of each other, leading to a more accurate, robust model. With Foresight, users can utilize the power of non-linear models to translate model information into rules that drive business decisions.

To learn more, please go to www.equbits.com

S. Adnan Asar, Ravis Mallela will be exhibiting at the Seminar on Predictive Modeling on behalf of Equbits

ISO

ISO is the property and casualty insurance industry's lead provider of statistical, actuarial, underwriting, and claims data providing circulars, policy forms, and commercial lines manual information. ISO Score Small Business Underwriting is an automated system for analying and scoring small commerical risks. ISO Score can be used for underwriting, rating, or both. Stop by the ISO exhibit for a demo.

Beth Fitzgerald and Randall Jacobson will be exhibiting at the Seminar on Predictive Modeling on behalf of ISO.

Northstar International

Northstar International is an exclusive property and casualty insurance recruiting firm. Our specialty for over 20 years has focused exclusively on recruiting property and casualty actuaries. Today, there are dynamic global changes taking place in the insurance industry. New markets are opening up and new companies forming strategic alliances. Our clients look to us to help fuel their expansion by recruiting the best candidates with a history of proven performance.

Northstar believes in consulting to a core group of clients. We will not be everything to everyone. Our goal is to serve fewer clients and to become a larger and more integral part of our client's management team.

Northstar's success is measured by our long-term relationships that we have earned one placement at a time. We spend an equal amount of time in our search process in understanding your corporate goals and identifying peak performers who will flourish in your environment. The result is recruiting brilliance.

Michael Crawford will be exhibiting at the Seminar on Predictive Modeling on behalf of Northstar International

Pinnacle Actuarial Resources, Inc

Pinnacle Actuarial Resources, Inc. is one of the premier firms in the application of predictive modeling techniques to the property and casualty insurance industry. This modeling experience is enhanced by our consultants' experience in the property and casualty insurance industry. Best of all, Pinnacle is willing to share our knowledge with you if you are interested in becoming more competent in advanced analytics. These pillars of our predictive modeling practice combine to help you not just understand your data better today, but also to become more sophisticated users of data in the future.

Modeling Experience. Industry Experience. Knowledge Transfer. Pinnacle can provide you with practical solutions to assist you both now and going forward. Stop by our exhibitor's booth and let's discuss how we can put our expertise to work for you.

Shawna Ackerman, Robert Walling, LeRoy Boison, Steven Lehmann, and Gary Wang will be exhibiting at the Seminar on Predictive Modeling on behalf of Pinnacle Actuarial Resources, Inc.

StatSoft, Inc.

StatSoft, Inc., creators of STATISTICA, is one of the largest developers of enterprise-wide and single-user software for data analysis, data mining, and quality control worldwide. STATISTICA has received the highest rating in EVERY comparative review of statistics software since its first release (1993) - a record unmatched in the industry.

Robert Eames, Bob Rosell, and Thomas Hill will be exhibiting at the Seminar on Predictive Modeling on behalf of StatSoft, Inc.

Valen Technologies

Valen Technologies provides highly multivariate, non-linear predictive modeling technology that selects, scores and prices new and renewal policies. Valen’s predictive modeling software, Risk Manager, is an automated predictive modeling software system that preprocesses raw experience data from policy, claims, underwriting, loss control and external data into a model ready dataset and then builds models with thousands of interacting variables. With Risk Manager, insurers are able to segment policies in a much more granular fashion because the number of variables considered when rating and pricing is no longer a limitation.

Risk Manager blends Valen’s proprietary algorithms and a host of commonly used algorithms (Bayesian, KNN, GLM, etc.) with a proprietary Optimizer, grid computing platform and business-specific, fitness-function library. Valen’s Optimizer selects the appropriate algorithm(s) based upon the preprocessed data and an insurer’s corresponding business objectives (i.e. lower loss ratio, increase policy retention, etc.). Because Valen’s predictive modeling system is automated, our insurance clients receive a consistent, repeatable model that has been vigorously tested to ensure optimum production performance.

Craig Murray and Richard Vlasimsky will be exhibiting at the Seminar on Predictive Modeling on behalf of Valen Technologies.

Watson Wyatt Insurance & Financial Services, Inc.

Watson Wyatt’s Insurance & Financial Services practice offers a range of P&C consulting services and state-of-the-art-software solutions. We have assisted many clients across the US and worldwide with predictive modeling initiatives using our statistical expertise and practical knowledge.

Watson Wyatt Pretium ® software delivers powerful multivariate modeling and projection capabilities. Its custom-built and fast GLM routine analyzes how claim costs and policy holder retention / conversion are affected by rating variables and other characteristics. It also helps to assess the effect of geography and to re-define territorial analyses to project the impact of different rating actions to assist in optimizing rate changes in line with a company’s strategic objectives.

Pretium has over 300 users across 30 countries, including the US and Canada. More information can be found at www.watsonwyatt.com/pretium

Duncan Anderson, Richard Bretton, Pascal Gonzalvez, Claudine Modlin, John Rollins and James Tanser will be exhibiting at the Seminar on Predictive Modeling on behalf of Watson Wyatt Insurance & Financial Services, Inc.