Meet Tony Giles, CPCU, ARM-P PARMA Member Spot Light Tell me about how you became a risk manager? Like most of my risk management colleagues, I came to risk management almost entirely by accident. More generously, I suppose we could say that fate intervened. I worked for the County of Santa Clara for several years in a variety of roles – most of them administrative. I accepted a job as the Senior Management Analyst for the County’s Director of Risk Management. At first, I saw my role as supporting the Director but not really doing risk management. After several years, I started taking on more

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PARMA 2020, The Art of Risk To submit a session for consideration for PARMA's 2020 Annual Risk Management Conference, The Art of Risk, please complete this form and then click the Submit Button at the bottom. You will receive a copy of your submission sent to the email address you provide below. If you do not receive a copy of your submission, the session did not get submitted correctly. The submission deadline is April 1, 2019. Note: PARMA does not pay speaker fees. Do not submit sessions where the speaker requires or requests a fee. Selected presenters receive complemenatry conferece

October 19, 2018 - Paradise Valley Golf Course, Fairfield, CA

The story of my path into Risk Management (RM) is one of unforeseen circumstances. RM was not my initial choice during my undergrad studies. I had a passion for Human Resources. My forte consisted of employee administration, training and development, and recruitment. Outside of my normal day to day assignments at work, I would spend my personal time mostly helping people prepare for gainful employment by critiquing their employment portfolios and assisting them with marketing themselves to potential employers. This is what I loved to do! It was not until shortly after completing my graduate

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Meet Alex Mellor PARMA Member Spot Light What inspired you to pursue a career in risk management? After graduating college, I was fortunate to start my career working for a workers’ compensation disability management firm. I had a number of different roles in the organization, each of which exposed me to different parts of the California workers’ compensation system and state and federal leave laws. Many of the firm’s clients were public agencies, so I learned a lot about risk management in a public agency setting which led me to pursue and obtain an ARM designation. For the past five years, I

Meet Leonardo Selvaggi PARMA Member Spot Light How did you enter Risk Management? It all started twenty-four years ago just after college when I was hired by a small third-party administrator in Philadelphia, Curley Adjustment Bureau, to handle entry level claims. After eighteen years, 27 state licenses and many complex cases later, I entered into my current position with the County of Ventura’s Risk Management Department. What are the rewards you experience professionally by being a PARMA member? PARMA presents the opportunity to meet other risk professionals like myself. PARMA also has a

Wednesday, September 6th: 9am-11am PT Description CalPERS issued a memorandum to public agencies on 03/30/2017 detailing their policies with respect to Industrial Disability Retirements, and announcing audits that would soon take place. They have since conducted an unprecedented 60 audits of member public agencies. For some agencies the policy does not represent a change in their existing practices, but for many, the announced policies are significant and will dramatically impact how they handle future IDR Applications. Hanna Brophy law firm has had discussions with CalPERS about the policy