Mark Jones, ACAS, MAAA   |  Director of Research & Development, Consulting Actuary

Mark Jones is the Director of Research & Development and a Consulting Actuary with Perr&Knight. His primary responsibility is the development of new products and services for all areas of the firm. Mark has a broad background including experience with ratemaking, regulatory compliance, competitive analysis, catastrophe modeling and reserving for most personal and commercial lines of business. He also has experience in the development and implementation of predictive models, dynamic financial analysis tools for reinsurance applications, financial forecasting applications for budgeting and retention analysis, rate monitoring tools for most lines of business and ad hoc statistical studies for claims investigation, premium audit and loss control. Mark’s skill set includes an extensive knowledge of insurance data systems and company operations, as well as Visual Basic, SQL, R and other software.

Mark’s prior role was as Chief Actuary/AVP of Union Standard Insurance Company, a WR Berkley company. Prior to Union Standard, he worked in a variety of roles at TIG Insurance, Guy Carpenter and Watson Wyatt. He also spent time working on his Ph.d and teaching undergraduate level mathematics courses in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.

Mark graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science in Math/Physics and a Master of Arts in Math in 1995. He has completed 54 post-masters doctoral hours of mathematics with a research emphasis on applications of partial differential equations to physics and numerical analysis. He has since become an associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.