OUR LEADERSHIP

Founding Board Member

Sherry Chan is the Chief Strategy Officer for Atidot, an insurtech startup that specializes in state-of-the-art AI for the life insurance ecosystem to better understand their policyholder behavior throughout the value chain.  Sherry has over 20 years of actuarial experience, having served as Chief Actuary for the City of New York and the State of Ohio. As New York City’s Chief Actuary, she provided technical expertise to the City’s five retirement systems and pension funds with approximately 800,000 participants and $300 billion of assets, certified the $10 billion annual required pension contributions, and oversaw a City agency with a professional staff who has decades of experience in and out of City service. Sherry served on the Board of the American Academy of Actuaries as the Vice President – Pension and after winning an international election, is currently on the Board of the Society of Actuaries. Sherry obtained both her Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science and Mathematics and her Executive MBA from The Ohio State University. She established the University’s first actuarial endowment, the Sherry S. Chan Actuarial Endowment, and is a member of their College of Arts & Science Dean’s Advisory Committee.  Sherry is also a certified yoga instructor and occasionally spends her time on the golf course hoping to break her current, personal record of 97.