Ali Al-Ali

Ali is a Managing Director and the co-head of the Insurance Structured Finance business within the Financing Group at Goldman Sachs.  He focuses on origination, structuring and execution of securitizations and other structured […]

ILS Bermuda announces 2nd panel – Converging Capital Structures

Hamilton, Bermuda – ILS (Bermuda) Ltd., organisers of the Bermuda Convergence 2015 today announced the second panel session that will be held at this year’s event as ‘Converging capital structures […]

Philipp Kusche

Philipp Kusche, Director, joined Swiss Re Capital Markets in New York in 2006. He has been instrumental in the issuance of over USD 8 billion in insurance-linked securities transactions for reinsurers, insurers, hedge […]

Matthew Ball

Relevant Experience/Specialisation Matthew Ball is a Director of Towers Watson and leads the firm’s ILS consulting practice and its Bermuda office. Matthew joined Towers Watson’s London office in 1997 before taking his […]

David Third

Background: David is a senior consultant with the General Insurance practice in New York.  He has nine years of property and casualty experience, previously working for a major global specialty insurer and reinsurer in both […]

Michael Millette

Michael is the Managing Partner of Hudson Structured Capital Management, an investment management firm focusing on re/insurance and transport assets. Michael was a Partner & Managing Director of Goldman Sachs for 2006 […]

ILS Bermuda Welcome Reception

Tom Johansmeyer

Tom Johansmeyer, assistant vice president, runs the new reinsurance services unit of ISO and has oversight of the Verisk Insurance Solutions –Claims and Crime Analytics marketing department. Launched in early 2015, the group […]

Pierre Wiart

Pierre Wiart is a world-round reinsurance professional with more than 15 years of experience in managing catastrophe risk portfolios notably in Bermuda for White Mountains Re (Sirius Bermuda) and for Atropos ILS […]

Phil Kane

Phil Kane is the UK Working Capital Advisor in Deutsche Bank’s Global Transaction Banking division focused on financing solutions and technological innovations (“fintech”) in the insurance sector.  In the ILS space, he currently […]

Paul Schultz

Paul Schultz serves as CEO of Aon Securities and leads Aon Benfield’s investment banking team, responsible for providing investment banking products and services to Aon’s clients on a global basis.  Paul specializes in […]

Jose Miranda

José Miranda is an analyst for Tokio Millennium Re AG, Bermuda Branch. He is responsible for pricing and analyzing property catastrophe reinsurance, as well as developing efficient technologies and workflows for use […]

Neil McConachie

Working closely with Richard Brindle, Neil was instrumental in the set up and success of Fidelis Insurance. Between 2006 and 2012, his roles at the company included Chief Financial Officer, Chief Risk Officer, Chief Operating […]

Dr. Mark Guishard

Dr. Mark Guishard leads the Risk Prediction Initiative (RPI2.0) at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences. RPI2.0 is a non-profit organization which conducts academic natural catastrophe research with relevance to the risk transfer […]

Dr. John Seo

Dr. John Seo is Co-Founder and a Managing Principal at Fermat Capital Management,LLC, with US$5 billion in assets under management (31 December 2014) in catastrophe bonds, otherwise known as insurance-linked securities (ILS). […]

Greg Hagood

Mr. Hagood is a Co-Founder of Nephila Capital Ltd. and is a Managing Principal at its affiliate, Nephila Advisors LLC. As Co-Founder of Nephila Capital, Mr. Hagood was involved in all aspects of the […]

Edwin Jordan

Ed Jordan is Head of Bermuda and Head of the Capital Solutions Unit for Tokio Millennium Re AG.  Ed joined Tokio Millennium Re (TMR) in 2002. Prior to accepting his current […]

Dr. Tim Hall

Dr. Tim Hall is a senior scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City. He studies extreme weather and climate, focusing on the modeling of hurricane and winter […]

Dr. Robert Muir-Wood

Robert Muir-Wood works to enhance approaches to natural catastrophe modeling, identify models for new areas of risk, and explore expanded applications for catastrophe modeling. Recently, he has been focusing on identifying the potential […]

Dr. Richard Sandor

Richard L. Sandor (Ph.D., Dr.sc.h.c) is Chairman and CEO of Environmental Financial Products, which specializes in inventing, designing and developing new financial markets. He is the Aaron Director Lecturer in Law and […]

Donald Mango

Don Mango is Vice Chairman of Enterprise Analytics for Guy Carpenter & Company,LLC, the global risk and reinsurance specialist unit of Marsh & McLennan Companies.  As a member of Guy […]

Robert DeRose

Robert DeRose joined the A.M. Best Company as a senior financial analyst in the property/casualty ratings department in 1996. In his current capacity, he manages a team of financial analysts responsible for the […]

Anthony Rettino

Anthony A. Rettino, Jr. is a Founding Principal and Portfolio Manager at Elementum Advisors, LLC and also serves as Director and CEO of Elementum (Bermuda) Ltd. Tony has managed a variety of reinsurance […]

Andre Perez

Current Responsibilities Andre is the founder of Horseshoe Group. He is in charge of the Group’s operations as well as responsible for the development of the insurance management and consulting […]

“The Next $60 Billion” – ILS Convergence announces first panel session

Hamilton, Bermuda – ILS (Bermuda) Ltd., organisers of the Bermuda Convergence 2015 today announced the first panel session that will be held at this year’s event as ‘Deploying and Sourcing […]

Bermuda overtakes Cayman as predominant domicile for ILS vehicles

Bermuda has overtaken the Cayman Islands as the main domicile for insurance-linked securities (ILS) vehicles, according to the latest Willis Capital Markets & Advisory (WCMA) […]

Attracting ILS & cat bonds will be challenging for London: Report

A report published by global accounting firm Grant Thornton in partnership with UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) concludes that London and the UK will find […]

London faces ‘hurdles’ to win ILS business

Bermuda is in a strong position to hold on to its insurance-linked securities business — despite attempts by the City of London to muscle in […]

David Gibbons

David is the managing director in charge of the Captive Insurance and ILS Assurance Group with over 17 years experience. He has responsibility for the management and delivery of the […]

Sean Moran

As Business Development Manager at the BDA, Sean is responsible for our Asset Management and Trust & Private Client sectors. He works with industry focus groups to create strategies to […]

Richard Lowther

Richard Lowther joined Hiscox in 2014 as Chief Operating Officer, Insurance-Linked Securities Based in Bermuda, he is responsible for developing the Hiscox ILS investment management platform and related operational processes. […]

Paschal Brooks

Paschal Brooks is a Portfolio Manager with AlphaCat Managers Ltd., a subsidiary of Validus Holdings, Ltd. which seeks investment opportunities in the insurance linked securities and reinsurance markets. Prior to […]

Jereme Ramsay

Jereme is Business Development Manager (Risk Solutions) for the Bermuda Business Development Agency (BDA). He oversees reinsurance, insurance, captives, and insurance-linked securities (ILS) sectors, working closely with industry focus groups […]

Craig Redcliffe

Craig Redcliffe is a partner in EY’s Assurance practice of the Bahamas, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands (BBC) region of our Financial Services Office. Craig has over 15 […]

Adrian Jones

Adrian Jones is head of corporate strategy at RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd., having joined in 2010. He focuses on the long-term development of the risk-transfer industry, identifying growth opportunities, and executing […]

Adam Alvarez

Adam is Director of Alvarez & Associates, a consultancy that works with insurance linked funds and their investors. Alvarez & Associates also owns InsuranceLinked.com, ‘The online resource for insurance linked […]

Susan Lane

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Anna Pereira

Anna Pereira has over 20 years’ experience working in the Insurance, Reinsurance, Alternative Risk Transfer and Capital markets in Bermuda. Anna is currently an independent consultant. Most recently, she was Head of Captive and […]

Greg Wojciechowski

Greg Wojciechowski is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX). He is also the Chairman of the Financial Intelligence Agency in Bermuda. Prior to joining the […]

Brad Adderley

Brad Adderley is a partner in the Corporate and Commercial department of Appleby’s Bermuda office and has been a member of the Insurance team for over 17 years. He has […]

Kathleen Faries

Kathleen Faries is Chief Executive Officer of Tokio Solution Management Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Tokio Millennium Re Ltd. Kathleen has over 25 years experience in the insurance and […]

Jason Carne

Jason Carne is Member of the Advisory Board of Hudson Structured Capital Management Limited and acts as a Non-Executive Director on a number of Boards of both Life and non-Life reinsurance Companies in Bermuda.  Jason […]

Cory Anger

Cory is the Global Head of ILS Origination and Structuring at GC Securities, leads the origination and structuring efforts of the capital markets team and has experience working on 46 […]