Marker Actuarial Services, LLC

About Us

Joseph Marker, FCAS, MAAA
joemarker@markeractuarial.com
734 323-1495

Joe has over 37 years actuarial, managerial and consulting experience in property casualty insurance. Prior to founding Marker Actuarial Services, LLC, in 2001, he worked 28 years for insurance companies, including over 15 years as chief actuary at medium-sized property casualty insurers, where he was also a part of senior management. Joe has headed both small actuarial departments and larger departments spread over multiple locations. Joe chaired the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association. Since 2007, he has been teaching upper-level actuarial science courses at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Joe previously taught actuarial science courses at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.

Joe graduated with Highest Honors in Mathematics from the University of Michigan and has a Masters degree in Mathematics. He wrote two major actuarial papers for the Casualty Actuarial Society and chaired actuarial examination committees. Joe is a frequent speaker at professional seminars and is a member of the Casualty Actuarial Society and the American Academy of Actuaries. He chaired a subsection of the Loss Simulation Model Working Party that recently developed an open-source model to simulate the detailed claim and reserve change experience of a property-casualty insurer. He developed the procedures that enable an insurer to determine model parameters from its own data.

Connie Marker, B.A., M.A.
cmarker@markeractuarial.com
734 323-6114

Connie is a founding partner of Marker Actuarial Services, LLC. As Joe Marker's wife and business associate, they have worked as a team for 40 years. Connie handles non-actuarial functions for the business, managing the office, coordinating specialized support personnel as needed, and managing the computer systems. This allows Joe to focus entirely on client consulting services. Her background is in planning and policy analysis.

Connie has a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan with Honors and a Master's degree in Policy Analysis, with Honors. She worked as a planner in State and local governments before turning her time fully to support services, allowing Joe more time for actuarial work.

Peer Review by a network of independent consulting actuaries

Marker Actuarial Services, LLC has affiliations with a network of independent consulting actuaries. These affiliations enable Marker to bring in extra resources for large projects, provide for peer review by independent actuaries, and obtain specialized expertise as needed. They benefit the client by insuring that the client is not paying for the overhead of a large organization.