Meet Laura Bennett FSA CFA
Introducing Laura Bennett FSA CFA - Guest Author for About.com
Laura Bennett is the CEO and Co-Founder of Embrace Pet Insurance. She trained and worked as an actuary at a life and health insurance company in Toronto, Canada and Dublin, Ireland for 12 years before obtaining her MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania where she graduated as Palmer and Siebel Scholars.
She also learned to play hockey, climbed a glacial volcano, and wrote a daily blog while at Wharton to round out her academic learning.
Upon graduating from Wharton, Laura co-founded Embrace Pet Insurance. Laura lives up to the title on her business card of Chief Embracer and actively engages with pet parents about pet insurance through all types of media, including twitter, Facebook and email. She has also been writing the Embrace Pet Insurance blog since 2004.
On the insurance side of Embrace, Laura was the first pet insurance actuary in the United States and was named to the Society of Actuaries Top 100 Actuarial Pioneers for her ground-breaking work in pet insurance. Laura developed the actuarial models behind the leading edge customizable pet insurance product, allowing the pet parent to choose her own product features to suit her own budget.
Laura strongly believes in furthering awareness of pet insurance across North America and leads that work in her current role of Chairman of the Board of NAPHIA, the North American Pet Health Insurance Association.
Laura loves to spend time with her husband and 2 young daughters, with many memorable moments shared over a stack of homemade pancakes on the weekends. She has three adopted cats and is very interested in pet health and wellness. Laura also enjoys travelling off the beaten path, fishing, Irish whiskey, and networking online, when she isn't sharing videos of her daughters' antics on her Facebook page.
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