Suzanne Taranto
Sue Taranto is a principal and consulting actuary with Milliman. She joined the firm in 2005 and leads the New York Region Employer Health Practice.
Experience
Sue has more than 30 years of employee benefits consulting experience. She provides advice on the design and delivery of comprehensive health welfare plans to both corporate and union plans. Sue is an expert in the area of accounting for postemployment benefits and specializes in financial analysis and benchmarking of health plans. She is responsible for negotiating and supporting a number of retiree medical VEBA trusts, and she has significant healthcare bargaining and design experience. She has done extensive analysis on the impact of the Affordable Care Act on employer-sponsored plans.
Sue has experience as a consulting actuary at a major consulting firm. She has also held senior positions leading compensation and benefits units of major (Fortune 500) U.S. companies.
- Michigan Association of Public Employee Retirement Systems (MAPERS), 2025 Spring Conference (Extending traditional retiree healthcare).
- International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEBP) Trustees & Administrators Institute, February 2025 (Retiree Healthcare).
- International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists (ISCEBS) 2024 National Symposium (Keeping your promise: Extending traditional retiree healthcare).
- 30th Annual Health and Benefits Expo, 2024 (The Stuff of Nightmares: What Keeps Health Benefits Administrators Up at Night, and How You Can Try and Get Some Sleep).
- International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEBP) Certificate of Achievement in Public Plan Policy (CAPPP), 2023 and 2024, (Health Actuarial Principles).
- Enrolled Actuary
- Member, American Academy of Actuaries
- BA (magna cum laude), Biology and Mathematics, Stonehill College