Peter A. Bennett graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1979 with a degree in mathematics. From 1979 to 1991, Mr. Bennett worked at the Crum & Forster insurance Company, first as an Actuarial Analyst in the Private Passenger Auto unit and eventually as Actuarial Programming Manager.

As Actuarial Programming Manager, Mr. Bennett's duties included developing mainframe applications for personal lines ratemaking, primarily in the PL/I and SAS languages-, generating reports on a special request basis; training and Supporting members of the actuarial department in computer use; personal computer applications in XBase, Prolog, Pascal and Lotus; development of actuarial programming personnel. Major projects included an on-line interactive private passenger ratemaking system, workers' compensation pension database and formula reserve evaluation system, demographic, premium, loss and marketing databases.

In 1985 and concurrently with working at Crum and Forster, Mr. Bennett began working as a consultant with MBA Inc. Duties at MBA included developing an XBase claims database for a client insurance company; writing a loss development spreadsheet, specifying, purchasing and supporting all computers, peripherals and software- network installation and administration for MBA; and data management. Mr. Bennett divided his time between MBA and Crum & Forster until 1991 when he began devoting full time to MBA.

Computer languages Mr. Bennett has had experience with include: SAS, PL/l, Basic, Prolog, Lisp, C, Pascal, Visual FoxPro, Delphi and Visual Studio.net.

During this period Mr. Bennett passed four CAS actuarial exams and earned an MBA degree from the Stern School of Business at New York University. He is currently completing an MS in computer science at Rutgers University.

Mr. Bennett lives in Boonton, New Jersey.