Steve Craighead, ASA, MAAA, Nationwide Financial Services. Steve is employed in the Asset and Liability Management Actuarial Department at Nationwide Financial Services as a research assistant actuary. He has published papers in the following areas: Insolvency, Risk, Portfolio Selection, Optimization, Graduation Theory, Term Structure of Interest Rates, Applied Chaos Theory on US Interest Rates and Applications of Extreme Value Statistics on Life Insurance Insolvency. Steve has spoken on these topics in the United States, Canada, Russia and Germany.

Steve Craighead, ASA, MAAA-Born in a rural mountainous farm community in the poorest county in the state of Virginia. Surviving this, he went on to receive his BS at Emory and Henry College in Mathematics and Physics. He received his MS at James Madison University in Mathematics. He currently is employed in the Asset and Liability Management Actuarial Department at Nationwide Financial Services as a research assistant actuary. He has worked at Nationwide for the past 14 years, the first six years as an actuarial assistant in Annuity and Pension Actuarial where he was responsible for several Actuarial Payout Systems. During this time, he also lectured part-time at Ohio State University from 1987-1991. Prior to his work at Nationwide, he was employed at Ohio State Life Insurance for 2 years, where he did financial reporting and actuarial systems maintenance. Prior to his work at Ohio State Life, he was employed for three years at William M. Mercer Inc., both in the Columbus, and the New York City offices. Here, he worked as an actuarial technician doing defined benefit pensions plan valuations.

He has published papers in the following areas: Insolvency, Risk, Portfolio Selection, Optimization, Graduation Theory, Term Structure of Interest Rates, Applied Chaos Theory on US Interest Rates and Applications of Extreme Value Statistics on Life Insurance Insolvency.