Center for Risk and Insurance

  • Matadors attend the RISKWORLD conference 2024

    Matadors @ RISKWORLD - San Diego (5/6/24)

  • Six Matadors gather at RIMS Western Regional Conference in Colorado

    Six Matadors at RIMS WRC in Vail, CO (10/5/23)

  • Kelly with students 2022

    Kelly Geoghegan - Professor for A Day (3/15/22)

  • 2019 LA RIMS donated $10,000

    LA RIMS donated $10k to CSUN (12/5/19)

  • Lockton hosted CSUN Students 2019

    Lockton hosted CSUN Students (11/15/19)

  • CSUN students visited Farmers HQ 20191023

    CSUN Students visited Farmers HQ (10/23/19)

  • Matadors at CPCU Industry Day 2019

    Matadors at CPCU All-Industry Day (10/15/19)

  • Matadors in Boston - RIMS Conference

    Matadors at RIMS Conference - Boston (4/29/19)

Seminar on Risk & Insurance Careers

9th: Lisa, Margaret, and Andrew (11/1/21) - Virtual via Zoom

 

The following three rising risk professionals of the LA RIMS Chapter made this 9th bi-annual seminar possible by sharing with CSUN students their career stories in the risk and insurance industry (Nov. 1, 2021).

          • Andrew Duhancioglu ’12 (Math), ACAS, MAAA, Consulting Actuary, Oliver Wyman Actuarial Consulting, Inc.
          • Lisa Kamei, AINS, Vice President, Account Executive, Marsh
          • Margaret Fisette, Senior Manager, Risk Management, Fox Corporation 

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8th: Katie, Samuel, Randal, and Mary (4/5/21) - Virtual via Zoom

 

CSUN students are fortunate to have close conversations with the following four rising risk professionals of the LA RIMS Chapter at the virtual seminar on risk and insurance careers (Apr. 5, 2021). 

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CSUN Students divided into four breakout rooms can further seek real-world perspectives from four rising risk professionals in different areas of the risk and insurance industry. 

7th: Nancy, Linh, Armen, and Josh (11/10/20) - Virtual via Zoom

Four Rising Risk Professionals below interacted with Matadors for an engaging conversation about different career paths in risk management and insurance (Nov. 10, 2020). 

    • Linh Dao, Risk Manager, IMT Residential
    • Nancy Valiente, Account Specialist, Aon
    • Armen Artinian '12 (Marketing), Risk Management Specialist, Netflix
    • Josh Breen, Account Manager, FM Global – Los Angeles Operations

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Linh, Nancy, Armen, and Josh helped students capture the nuts and bolts of how they performed their duties in different areas of risk management and insurance careers.  

Their beautiful minds add little touches of warmth to "virtual" life, given the current circumstances affected by COVID-19.  

6th: Mary, Josh, Randal, and Byron (2/26/20)

 

CSUN students are surrounded by four Rising Risk Professionals of LA RIMS below for an interactive dialogue regarding various career paths in the risk and insurance industry (Feb. 26, 2020).

  • Randal Maestas, Risk Manager, CoorsTek, Inc.
  • Byron Stufken, Assistant Vice President, Entertainment & Media Industry, Marsh
  • Josh Breen, Account Manager, FM Global – Los Angeles Operations
  • Mary Daly, Principal, Oliver Wyman Actuarial Consulting, Inc. 

  Mary, Josh, Randal, and Byron shared with Matadors their career stories from college students to professionals in risk management and insurance (Feb. 26, 2020).

Matadors had a firsthand understanding of how these professionals performed their duties and why they turned college education into an RMI profession.

5th: Nancy, Marika, Armen, and Josh (10/2/19)

The fifth Seminar on Risk & Insurance Careers at CSUN with the following four Rising Risk Professionals from LA RIMS (Oct. 2, 2019).    

  • Nancy Valiente, Account Specialist, Aon
  • Marika Block, Vice President, Area Manager, AFM 
  • Armen Artinian '12 (Marketing), Risk Management Specialist, Netflix
  • Josh Breen, Account Manager, FM Global – Los Angeles Operations

 These four guests captured Matadors' attention about their stories of landing their first jobs in the risk management and insurance. 

 The seminar concludes with this group picture.   

 

4th: Byron, Dan, and Patrick (2/28/19)

CSUN students interacted with the following three Rising Risk Professionals from LA RIMS about career opportunities in the Seminar on Risk & Insurance Careers (Feb. 28, 2019).    

    • Dan Reichert, Senior Risk & Insurance Analyst, Capital Group Companies Global
    • Byron Stufken, Senior Analyst, Risk Management, Fox Entertainment Group
    • Patrick Novack, Senior Risk Analyst, Risk Management, Avery Dennison Corp.

Dan Reichert, Senior Risk & Insurance Analyst, Capital Group Companies Global

Byron Stufken, Senior Analyst, Risk Management, Fox Entertainment Group

Patrick Novack, Senior Risk Analyst, Risk Management, Avery Dennison Corp.

CSUN students showed hand sign for excellence to thank Byron, Dan, and Patrick for their presentations.

3rd: Emily, Josh, and Mary (2/26/19)

CSUN students learned about a wide variety of career opportunities in the Seminar on Risk & Insurance Careers (Feb. 26, 2019) with the following Rising Risk Professionals from LA RIMS:   

    • Mary Daly, Principal, Oliver Wyman Actuarial Consulting, Inc.
    • Emily Jones, Account Specialist. Aon
    • Josh Breen, Account Manager, FM Global – Los Angeles Operations

Mary Daly, Principal, Oliver Wyman Actuarial Consulting, Inc.

Emily Jones, Account Specialist. Aon

Josh Breen, Account Manager, FM Global – Los Angeles Operations

2nd: Linh, Molly, Dan, and Chris (10/4/18)

Spencer's Risk Manager in Residence and three Rising Risk Professionals from LA RIMS interacted with Matadors about risk & insurance careers at CSUN (Oct. 4, 2018)

  • Christopher E. Mandel, SVP, Strategic Solutions, Sedgwick 
  • Linh Dao, Enterprise Risk Management, The Walt Disney Company
  • Molly Moerer, Senior Underwriter Global Domestic Casualty, Chubb
  • Dan Reichert, Senior Risk/Insurance Analyst, Capital Group Companies

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1st: Margaret, Mary, Taylor, Steve, and Patrick (3/2/18)

Five Rising Risk Professionals from LA RIMS engaged Matadors for an inspiring seminar on risk & insurance careers at CSUN (Mar. 2, 2018)

Margaret Fisette, Senior Risk Analyst, Big 5 Sporting Goods 

Mary Daly, Principal, Oliver Wyman Actuarial Consulting, Inc. 

Taylor Turney, Director - Los Angeles, Aon

Steve Dubiel, Energy and Construction Practice Leader-West Zone, AIG

Patrick Novack, Senior Risk Analyst, Avery Dennison