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Consultants and Actuaries

Paul Wood, ASA, FCA, MAAA

Paul Wood is a Senior Consultant and Team Leader in Gabriel, Roeder, Smith & Company’s Denver, Colorado office. He has nearly 20 years of public sector actuarial and benefits consulting experience.

Paul provides actuarial and retirement consulting services to states, cities and counties, including clients in Colorado, Rhode Island, Wyoming, Michigan, Washington, Alaska and Arizona. As Team Leader for GRS’ Southwest region, Paul is responsible for ensuring client satisfaction and service quality covering pension and OPEB clients served by a 23-person consulting team.

Throughout his career, Paul has consulted extensively on plan design, funding, accounting and pricing for defined benefit pension plans, post-retirement health care programs, and §529 pre-paid tuition programs. His pension and retiree health care experience includes actuarial valuations, plan design analysis, long-term funding projections, and actuarial audits. Paul also provides actuarial soundness valuations, pricing analyses, and actuarial audits for §529 pre-paid tuition plans.

Professional Designations
  • Associate, Society of Actuaries
  • Fellow, Conference of Consulting Actuaries
  • Member, American Academy of Actuaries
Presentations

Paul regularly presents in front of boards of trustees, plan sponsor staff, and professional associations. He has spoken at the following national conferences:

  • National Council on Teacher Retirement (NCTR) Annual Conference on Actuarial Audits
  • National Pension Education Association (NPEA) Annual Conference on actuarial basics
  • National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS) Annual Conference and Exhibition on the topic of various issues facing public sector pension plans
  • National Association of State Treasurers (NAST) Treasury Management Training Symposium on the actuarial implications of pre-paid tuition plans
  • National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS) FALL Conference on the impact of COVID mortality experience on public sector pension plans
Education

Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, Michigan