Meet the team

Club Vita’s global team includes experts from a range of specialities including data cleansing, multi-variate statistical techniques, technology and process design, actuarial mathematics and more. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us, we’ll happily put you in touch with the right expert.

You can get in touch by by emailing us here, or alternatively, you can reach out to an individual expert below.

Jennifer Haid CFA FSA
Jennifer Haid CFA FSA
CEO

Jennifer Haid CFA FSA

Jenny is the international CEO of Club Vita. Before joining Club Vita, Jenny spent five years with AIG, establishing a new international pension reinsurance capability. She also has wide consulting experience, servicing the insurance industry for seven years with EY and large multi-national pension plans for four years with WTW. Jenny is a founding member of the Society of Actuaries Longevity Advisory Group, and a past member of the Board of Directors.

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​Douglas Anderson FIA CERA FSA
​Douglas Anderson FIA CERA FSA
Founder and Chief Visionary Officer

​Douglas Anderson FIA CERA FSA

Douglas is the Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Club Vita, specializing in applying modern data science techniques to innovate in longevity and mortality risk management. Douglas has a background in pension consulting in which he has over 30 years of experience leading to the creation of Club Vita to solve many of the problems he encountered with his clients.

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Mark Sharkey FIA CERA
Mark Sharkey FIA CERA
Head of Pensions Strategy, Global

Mark Sharkey FIA CERA

Mark is responsible for leading the team that provides longevity analytics services to pension schemes and their advisors. In this role, Mark partners with a wide range of pension schemes and consultancy businesses to ensure they can apply Club Vita analytics to solve complex funding, investment and risk management problems. Away from the office, Mark can be found countless shots over par on the golf course, watching sport or channelling his inner Gordon Ramsey in the kitchen.

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Steven Baxter FIA
Steven Baxter FIA
Head of Innovation & Development

Steven Baxter FIA

Steven is Club Vita’s chief data scientist and is the driver of our serial innovation. He leads our product development and delivery through research and innovation with a multi-disciplinary team analyzing predictors and emerging trends of mortality rates and the implications of longevity risk for pension plans and insurers. ​He is passionate about the longevity market, having worked on many innovative transactions including the first UK pension plan longevity swap to leverage a sponsor owned insurance vehicle. ​

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​Erik Pickett PhD FIA CERA
​Erik Pickett PhD FIA CERA
Actuary and Chief Content Officer

​Erik Pickett PhD FIA CERA

Erik leads the dissemination of Club Vita’s insights and analytics. He began his career as a mathematician, working at a number of universities around Europe, while moonlighting as a part time street performer. He transitioned to the world of actuarial science in 2011, retaining his passion for engaging communication, training first as a pensions actuary with Mercer and Hymans Robertson and later specializing in longevity analytics with Club Vita.

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Jacklyn Hopkins
Jacklyn Hopkins
Senior Marketing Consultant

Jacklyn Hopkins

As a Senior Marketing Consultant, Jacklyn engages Club Vita’s community through various content channels with a digital marketing approach. She is focused on helping the team deliver innovative marketing solutions to promote awareness of longevity risk management; ultimately improving later-life financial well-being for all. Jacklyn has a background in brand management, and brings with her a strong interest and passion for marketing. In her spare time, you can catch her in her art room ready for her next acrylic pour painting.

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Carmen Gatta ASA EA
Carmen Gatta ASA EA
Client Delivery Director, US

Carmen Gatta ASA EA

Carmen leads the delivery of longevity analytics and insights to our US pension plan Club members. Carmen joined the team in 2022 bringing with him a wealth of experience from nearly ten years of pension consulting with Aon, focusing on support for pension plans with a variety of actuarial projects, and local business development.

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Nikiya Marilla
Nikiya Marilla
Head of Data Operations, US

Nikiya Marilla

Nikiya is the Club Vita US Data Operations Lead, a role in which she leads Club Members through the onboarding and reporting process. Nikiya is a seasoned pension/pension risk transfer manager with over 15 years experience within Defined Benefits administration and risk transfer solutions. In her prior role as a Pension Risk Transfer Manager, she managed the process of plan sponsor buyouts/lift-outs for within the PRT market.

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Natalie Gleed
Natalie Gleed
Head of Business Development, US

Natalie Gleed

Natalie is a life actuary with over 20 years of experience. She spent the first 10 plus years of her career in the UK, and the most recent 11 have been in the US. Natalie joined Club Vita in 2023 as head of business development; before that she was a client manager at Swiss Re looking after some of the largest Global clients. She has also worked in EY’s actuarial life practice and started her actuarial training with AXA. Natalie lives in Brooklyn, New York, and in her spare time, she's an avid runner and has completed multiple marathons.

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