Dale Yamamoto

Founder, President
Red Quill Consulting, Inc.

Biographical Sketch:
Dale is the founder and President of Red Quill Consulting, Inc. He has over 30 years of experience in providing employers with actuarial and strategic consulting to support their employee benefit programs. Before establishing his firm, Dale worked for two major benefits consulting firms in Seattle, New York and Chicago. In both firms, he served as the national resource for the companies. He has also held positions as the corporate actuary for a Fortune 50 company and as an actuary for two major insurance companies.
He chaired the 2000 Technical Review Panel of three actuaries and three economists appointed by the Medicare Board of Trustees to review the financial methods and assumptions of the Medicare program. Dale has testified before Congress on the topic of health care and Medicare reform. Dale was one of four senior health actuaries who reviewed the Administration's pricing of the Health Security Act premium estimates for the American Academy Actuaries. He served on the Board of Governors of the Society of Actuaries (2000-2005) and the Board of Directors of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries (1999-2005, 2006-present) and the American Academy of Actuaries (2011-12). Dale has published several articles on the subject of group benefits and has delivered speeches at a number of professional actuarial and industry meetings. He also has written a textbook, Fundamentals of Retiree Group Benefits, and co-authored another textbook, Insurance Industry Mergers and Acquisitions.
Dale is a Fellow of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries, a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries, a Member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and was a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (1980-2012). He holds a B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Nebraska.