David Hopewell

David has more than 30 years of practical experience as an actuary, investment professional, and executive. He has dedicated his career to the business of insurance, garnering extensive experience with product pricing and design, investment strategies, policyholder experience, and end-to-end management of the product lifecycle.

• Prior to joining Milliman, David held key executive roles and was a management board member at Transamerica. As Chief Financial Officer for the Individual Solutions division, David led the financial and actuarial teams covering retail products.
• David designed and executed an organizational and financial turnaround after the “great financial crisis,” resolving regulatory requirements while engineering record variable annuity sales and margins.
• David was the leader and principal designer of three successful variable annuity exchange programs.
• He executed multiple LTC rate and life cost of insurance actions.
• He led the creation of Transamerica’s first enterprise-wide analytics group, including the advanced underwriting team, which released Transamerica’s first automated issue underwriting program.
• David led the creation and execution of Transamerica’s inforce management enterprise wide.
• David ran the US derivative desk, leading hedging variable annuities and interest rate asset liability management.
• David began his career in product design and development and was an industry consultant focused on variable annuities and hedging.