Ryan Manheimer, FSA, MAAA, currently serves as Assistant Vice President, M&A and Reinsurance Risk Actuary at Fortitude Re, having started in July 2023. Prior to this role, Ryan held various positions at Prudential Financial from June 2014 to July 2023, progressing from Associate Actuary to Director, focusing on risk methodology, insurance risk management, and liability projections. Ryan's earlier experience includes a role as a Research Assistant at The College of New Jersey, where a program for graphing fractal continuous functions in Mathematica 8 was developed. Additionally, significant research contributions were made during an NSF-funded program at Boise State University, resulting in the invention of a new knot-invariant in original research areas. Ryan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from The College of New Jersey, earned in 2014.