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Consultant profile
Kathleen A. Blum
kathy@thekilbournecompany.com

Kathy Blum is a graduate of Middlebury College where she majored in physics and religion.

Kathy was employed for five years by Connecticut General, working in group pension operations. Her responsibilities included management of technical staff, production of annual valuation reports, and technical support for the development and use of actuarial computer systems. She was employed for four years by Joe Lynch & Company, developing and providing computer services for consulting actuaries and insurance companies.

Kathy helped establish Future Cost Analysts, an actuarial consulting firm, in 1982. At FCA she managed corporate matters and support staff, provided actuarial services, and developed computer systems. After five years with FCA, she continued these functions for two years with William M. Mercer. She is currently the President of The Kilbourne Company, which she co-founded in 1990.

Kathy has been project manager on many large contracts in her thirty years of consulting actuarial work. Several such projects were for the Internal Revenue Service, concerning the evaluation of loss reserves held by casualty insurers. She has also provided actuarial services and expert testimony on a number of major insurance cases, including projects for American Re and for the liquidators of Mutual Fire and Mentor Insurance Companies.

Kathy also co-authored an actuarial paper, Best Estimate Loss Reserving: An Actuarial Perspective, that was published by the Casualty Actuarial Society in 1998.