Nina Gau provides actuarial and risk management consulting services to public entity pools and self-insured organizations. She joined Bickmore in 2008 and brings more than 20 years of experience in the actuarial field, including ratemaking, reserving, financial modeling, and predictive modeling. Nina has also served on the Examination Committee of the Casualty Actuarial Society.

Prior to joining Bickmore, Nina worked for Nationwide Insurance Company as a Pricing Director. Throughout her career at Nationwide, she worked in different capacities in Commercial Lines pricing, Corporate Reserving and Planning and Forecasting departments.  In her most recent role she managed a research and development unit for Commercial Lines Pricing and carried primary responsibility for the Pricing Segmentation initiative.

From August of 1999 through July 2000, Nina worked as Management Analyst for the CSAC Excess Insurance Authority.  Her responsibilities included policy control and statistical data reporting. She also served as a primary liaison between member counties and excess insurance brokers.

Nina served as an Actuarial Analyst for CalFarm Insurance Company from August 1996 to August of 1999. Her primary responsibilities there included rate reviews for the Personal Auto and Homeowners lines of business. She also performed various ad-hoc analyses for Personal Lines profitability and planning studies, as well as assisted in the development of a Personal Lines data warehouse.  

She holds a Master of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. She is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS)Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA).