Kutsina Named Managing Director U.S. RE Analytics, LLC

Anya Kutsina, an actuary with extensive experience in marketing and sales together with financial risk modeling, has been named Managing Director of U.S. RE Analytics, LLC, a subsidiary of U.S. RE Companies, Inc., an international financial services and reinsurance brokerage group, Tal Piccione, Chairman and CEO, announced. Kutsina has served as Head of Sales and Marketing at Ultimate Risk Solutions, LLC (URS) for the last eight years and will continue in that position. URS is the developer of Risk Explorer(tm) Dynamic Financial Analysis (DFA) software licensed by insurance and reinsurance companies worldwide. "We're pleased to have Anya assume leadership of U.S. RE Analytics, which provides consulting and related services while URS will continue to research, develop, and market financial risk software," Piccione said. Among the consulting services provided by U.S. RE Analytics are: development of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and DFA modeling; catastrophic exposure and management analysis; cost efficiency analysis of Alternative Risk Transfer mechanisms; pricing methodology; and risk tolerance quantification.

Kutsina began her insurance career in 1998 as an actuary at Guy Carpenter & Company. Later, she held actuarial positions with Aon Re and Swiss Re in New York. Kutsina also has served as a lecturer in statistics and probability theory at Ramapo College of New Jersey. She holds a Master of Science degree in mathematics and computer science from Kiev Pedagogical University in Ukraine and an MBA in actuarial science and finance from the College of Insurance at St. John's University. U.S. RE Analytics is located in Pearl River, NY at the head office of U.S. RE Companies, Inc. The firm has and continues to build its staff in the United States and other countries.