Nancy Nelson

Chief Executive Officer

Nancy is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Actuary at Cirdan, a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries. She has more than 35 years of experience in health insurance, and has managed both actuarial and underwriting functions for individual, small group, large group, self-insured, and government programs. Areas of expertise include valuation of actuarial assets and liabilities, rate filing preparation, rating formulas for large group insured and self-insured products, stop loss insurance pricing, and management of related underwriting processes. She also has experience supporting Medicare and Medicaid bid preparation.

Prior to joining Cirdan, Nancy was Vice President and Chief Actuary with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota. Prior to joining Blue Cross, she was a Principal with Towers Perrin (now Willis Towers Watson).

Nancy earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota.

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