Blue Cross announces management appointments

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana has promoted Angie Tramonte to director of Actuarial Services and hired Gina Smith as data center manager for Information Technology.

Tramonte, ASA, MAAA, joined Blue Cross in 1998. She previously served as associate actuary over Group Actuarial, where she managed the small group block of business. In her new role, she will assume responsibility for group, individual and valuation actuarial activities.

Tramonte is a graduate of Loyola University in New Orleans and earned her Actuarial Associate designation in 2003.

Smith previously worked at IBM Global Services in Boulder, Colo., for more than 18 years – reaching the position of production support analyst manager. At Blue Cross, Smith will oversee the IT Operations Center.