Mitchell Sullivan began his career in reinsurance as an intern for TigerRisk Partners in the summer of 2016. He joined TigerRisk as an Associate in June 2017 as a member of the broking team, providing analytical support on multiple property accounts.
Mitchell received a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.
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Jacob Sexton joined TigerRisk Partners in 2017 as a member of the reinsurance brokerage team. He works with both current and prospective clients on product development and ancillary strategic initiatives. He is responsible for the execution of client renewals and the building of efficient catastrophe reinsurance structures with unique capital to risk solutions for TigerRisk clients. Jacob supports a variety of property and casualty regional, super-regional, and global insurance companies.
Jacob received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance from the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.
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John Kenney joined TigerRisk in 2014 as a lead broker responsible for placing reinsurance for property and casualty clients. He began his career in reinsurance in 1994 at E.W. Blanch Co. (now Aon Benfield) as a broker for clients ranging from specialty companies to regional, super-regional, and national carriers. Prior to joining TigerRisk, John was a Managing Director with Aon Benfield where he was responsible for the design, placement, and management of various forms of reinsurance coverage for U.S. property and casualty insurers.
John earned a BS in Business Administration with a major in accounting from Creighton University and is also a graduate of the Creighton University School of Law. He is a member of the Nebraska State Bar Association and holds a CPA certificate and the ARe designation.
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Pao Her joined TigerRisk Partners in 2018 and is based in the Minneapolis office. Prior to joining TigerRisk Partners, Pao began his reinsurance career in 2013 with Aon Inpoint. He served as a Senior Analyst at Aon Inpoint and held various reinsurance responsibilities such as performing treasury functions, handling reinsurance accounting, and training new hires. In 2016, Pao transitioned from Aon Inpoint to Trean Corporation to take on a broker role. At Trean Corporation, Pao worked closely with clients as an Account Executive, securing reinsurance for property and casualty treaty business. He also worked closely with MGA/GA businesses and clients who needed A.M. Best “A” rated paper.
Pao earned his Bachelor of Science in General Business from University of Northwestern, St. Paul in 2012 and his Master of Business Administration at Bethel University in 2016.
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Scott Geach joined TigerRisk in 2017 as a member of the Current Client Team where he is responsible for supporting the placement of large reinsurance programs. He is also leading TigerRisk’s Business Intelligence group, as well as contributing to other important initiatives within the company.
Scott began his reinsurance career in 2001 at Benfield Blanch (now Aon – Reinsurance Solutions) in the Accounting and Claims department. After 4 years in Accounting and Claims, he transitioned to a role in Corporate Finance where he was responsible for revenue budgeting, forecasting, and reporting, as well as ad hoc management reporting and system improvements. In 2014, Scott moved to Aon – Reinsurance Solutions IT where he led many high-profile projects including the implementation of IFRS 15/ASC 606 revenue recognition changes and development of new Business Intelligence functionality.
Scott earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse and holds the ARe and CSM designations.
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Hannah Erie began her career in reinsurance in 2015 at TigerRisk Partners as a member of the U.S. Treaty Broker team. She currently is responsible for supporting and placing U.S. property and casualty reinsurance programs for companies ranging from large national writers to regional insurance companies. Along with brokering property and casualty placement, Hannah’s responsibilities include: developing client submissions, marketing materials, and pricing/structuring options. Hannah is also involved in a variety of internal activities, including future client initiatives, training, social media, and recruiting.
Prior to joining TigerRisk, Hannah received a BA in Economics with a concentration in Management Studies from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. She holds her ARe designation and is currently working on her CPCU designation.
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Michael Bredahl joined TigerRisk in 2017 as a member of the property broking team, focusing on Florida and southeast regional accounts. Prior to joining TigerRisk, Michael interned at AXA Advisors where he worked as a financial advisor for teachers, as well as TransRe where he supported the surety underwriting team.
Michael graduated from Lafayette College where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with a Certificate in Financial Policy and Analysis, as well as a minor in Government and Law.
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Partner
Kerry Nash began her career in reinsurance in 2004 with Paragon Strategic Solutions, a subsidiary of Benfield Group Ltd (now Aon Benfield) as a Reinsurance Analyst, where she provided consulting services for property and casualty insurance and reinsurance companies. After a year, Kerry transitioned to a catastrophe modeling role to further advance her industry skills. During her tenure at Aon Benfield, Kerry was responsible for training analysts and clients on catastrophe modeling methodologies and practices, modeling highly complex commercial portfolios, and assisting Florida start-ups with targeted exposure management initiatives and Citizens depopulations efforts.
Kerry joined TigerRisk Partners in 2009. She spent her first four years at TigerRisk focused on growing the firm’s analytic capabilities, resources, and client base. Kerry has been an integral part of developing tools, products, and processes for the catastrophe modeling team and played a lead role in several CAT consulting engagements that ultimately helped expand Tiger’s analytics platform. In 2012, Kerry shifted her focus to the broking side and joined the North American Current Client team. She is currently responsible for the strategic design, placement, and management of various property catastrophe reinsurance programs and is engaged with companies ranging from large global national entities to regional/specialized insurance writers. Kerry also manages a group of new talent, responsible for training and developing initiatives, as well as allocating capacity for incoming opportunities. Lastly, in addition to her varying reinsurance advisory roles, Kerry leads the coordination of marketing efforts for TigerRisk’s media relations.
Kerry received a BA in Business Management with a minor in English from Gustavus Adolphus College.
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Partner
Dan Miller is a Partner in charge of client account management and new client production for TigerRisk in Minneapolis and is responsible for managing a broad portfolio of specialty and national accounts. When Dan first joined TigerRisk, he was responsible for the Casualty Solutions team and more recently has led the development of new reinsurance innovations including Contingent Aggregate Enterprise Risk Reinsurance (Whole Account), and unique Worker’s Compensation reinsurance products for large, global national companies. He currently manages E&S Property for TigerRisk with a focus on Reinsurance and Distribution Partnerships, developing proprietary captive arrangements between MGA and other Distribution Vehicles with Third Party Capital and Direct Investors. Using traditional, Third Party Capital, and ILS products, he is adept at matching and optimizing risk-to-capital strategies as a trusted strategic advisor to TigerRisk clients. Dan’s knowledge of fundamental actuarial concepts, coupled with extensive reinsurance placement experience, help him provide strong technical support to deliver superior reinsurance negotiations for his clients.
Dan began his reinsurance career at E.W. Blanch Company in 1996 and ultimately led the Umbrella and Commercial Auto unit for the Casualty Solutions team. He joined TigerRisk in 2009 as its 13th employee. Dan is active in a number of local and national non-profit charities including the Myocarditis Foundation. He is a graduate of St. Thomas University with a B.A. in English and holds the CPCU and ARe designations.
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Partner
Neal McCullough joined TigerRisk Partners in 2009 as part of analytics and technology team and transitioned to reinsurance broking in 2015. In his role as a Reinsurance & Risk Capital Specialist he is responsible for managing client renewals, analyzing and building catastrophe reinsurance structures, and creating efficient capital to risk solutions for Tiger clients. Neal supports a variety of companies in his role, including regional and super regional insurance companies.
Prior to joining TigerRisk Partners in 2009, Neal was a senior catastrophe modeler at Aon Benfield. Neal began his catastrophe modeling career at Benfield Group (now Aon Benfield) in 2005. During his tenure at Benfield, Neal focused on several projects, including training new analysts and clients on catastrophe modeling methodologies and practices, providing support for the development of industry tools and technologies, and managing complex commercial analyses.
Neal received a BS in Statistics (with honors) and a BA in Applied Economics (with honors) with a minor in business administration from the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Neal completed the RMS Certified Catastrophe Risk Analysis (CCRA) Certification in July 2007.
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Partner
Marc Havens began his reinsurance career in 1998 with E.W. Blanch Co. From 1998 to 2002, Marc held various reinsurance accounting positions at EWB, including that of reinsurance accounting supervisor. In 2002, Marc transitioned from accounting to broking and worked primarily on large, property catastrophe accounts.
Having joined TigerRisk in early 2008, Marc is one of the longest tenured TigerRisk team members. Over the course of the last ten years, he has worn many hats and has been involved in many operational aspects of the company. Marc continues to focus primarily on property catastrophe accounts and is the lead broker for several key TigerRisk clients. Marc is also part of the TigerRisk leadership team and leads a team of brokers.
Marc earned his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Northwestern College (St. Paul, MN) and holds the CPCU and ARe designations.
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Partner
Patrick Denzer joined TigerRisk Partners in 2016 as a Partner and has over 30 years of experience in the reinsurance industry. Previously, Pat served as Chairman-Americas at Guy Carpenter & Company. During his tenure at Guy Carpenter, he was a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Managers and contributed to developing strategy for the firm. Prior to Guy Carpenter, Pat was President and Chief Executive Officer of John B. Collins Associates, Inc. During his career at Collins, he led the company’s growth to become the fifth largest U.S. reinsurance broker and spearheaded long-term growth through broad diversification of the company’s business.
Pat has served as a director for several public and privately-held companies, including National Interstate Insurance Company. In addition, he has served on the boards of several not-for-profit organizations, including the Walker Art Center, Minnesota Public Radio, and the Abbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation.
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Partner
Amy Suttle joined TigerRisk in 2008 and is based in their Minneapolis office. As a Broker Team Leader and Reinsurance and Risk Capital Advisor, she works closely with a diverse group of TigerRisk clients ranging from regional insurance companies to large global writers. Amy is focused on providing innovative solutions using an integrated approach to capital with utilization of both traditional and third-party capital providers to optimize reinsurance structure and pricing.
Amy is a Property, Casualty, and Workers’ Compensation specialist responsible for placing and supporting complex reinsurance programs. She assisted with the creation and expansion in several Wholesale/E&S Distribution Programs utilizing third-party capital and developed proprietary models for the evaluation of new programs and the impact of collateral and capital allocation. Most recently, Amy has played a critical role in the placement of innovative new reinsurance products including: Enterprise Risk reinsurance for a Fortune 100 customer, Collateralized Quota Share for global National, Casualty Coverage for “Headline Losses”, and Enterprise Risk Coverage for a large global insurance company that addressed plan volatility for the company’s property and casualty portfolios.
Amy began her reinsurance career at E.W. Blanch Co. (now Aon Benfield) in 1996 and quickly established herself as a leader in the corporate and reinsurance accounting departments. Prior to joining TigerRisk Partners and transitioning to the broker team, Amy was Vice President at BMS Intermediaries and Cooper Gay Intermediaries where she managed the Fiduciary Accounting and Claims Department for the Minneapolis office.
Amy also holds various reinsurance intermediary and insurance producer licenses throughout the United States and Canada.
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Russ Dunne began his reinsurance career with JB Collins in 2003, moving to Guy Carpenter when JB Collins was purchased in 2009. He joined TigerRisk’s Accounting and Claims Department in 2012 and transitioned to broking in 2013.
At TigerRisk, Russ is focused primarily on property accounts, both Florida-specific and national. He has played a key role in every step of the process, from identifying and building bespoke coverages, to negotiating terms and finalizing all contract and trust documentation, to calculating and amending multi-year adjustments.
Russ earned his bachelor’s degree in Finance from St. Cloud State University.
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Kate Bailey joined TigerRisk UK in 2018 as a member of the Analytics team. Prior to joining TigerRisk, Kate worked as Portfolio Manager & Corporate Centre Business Partner at MS Amlin.
Kate graduated from the University of Leicester in 2003 with a BA Hons in Economics & Law. She also holds the CCRA, ACII and NHFI (Natural Hazards for Insurers) PG Cert.
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Daphne Roskams joined TigerRisk (UK) in August 2018 as an intern supporting the European and Analytics team. After her internship, Daphne became a full-time member of the London Tiger team where she now works as a part of the Analytics team and supports the Broking team.
Daphne graduated from the Catholic University of Leuven with three Master Degrees in Communication Sciences (Hons), Management, and Business Economics. In addition, she is currently studying to receive the CII Certificate.
Daphne was born and raised in Belgium and speaks 3 languages.
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Jonty Webb joined TigerRisk Capital Markets & Advisory (UK) in April of 2019. Prior to joining TigerRisk, Jonty was an Equity Research Analyst at Liberum Capital in London with a focus on the retail sector.
Jonty earned a MSc in Investment Management from Cass Business School and a BSc Hons in Economics from Newcastle University. He has passed the CFA Level I & II, the CISI Level 3 Certificate in Securities, and the Investment Management Certificate.
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David Unsworth joined TigerRisk Partners in 2019 and is a seasoned reinsurance executive skilled in providing reinsurance solutions for the complex and constantly evolving market. He brings market knowledge, analytics, and expertise across a broad array of classes. David resides in Tampa, Florida.
David began his career in London in 1995 with Minet Ltd. and then RK Carvill & Co. In 2002, David moved with Carvill America to Atlanta, Georgia, before joining Guy Carpenter in 2006 as a Senior Vice President. David subsequently moved to Tampa, Florida, where he joined JLT Re in 2014.
David is originally from London and graduated from Kingston University in 1994.
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Partner
Bhaskar Chattaraj joined TigerRisk in 2009 and leads the Modeling and R&D team. He began his career in the insurance industry in 1998 at AIR Worldwide Corporation where he was the manager of the Core Products Quality Group. In that position he was responsible for statistical analysis and testing of all catastrophe models and underlying industry exposures. Additionally, Bhaskar played an integral role in the development of a proprietary catastrophe software engine and was involved in special client risk management projects, such as providing analytical expertise in the design of catastrophe bonds.
Prior to joining TigerRisk, Bhaskar was the Assistant Vice President in the Analytics department at John B. Collins Associates, Inc. In that capacity he was responsible for building analytical tools for catastrophe risk analysis, creating tools and processes for optimizing portfolios of catastrophe-prone exposures including depopulations from Citizens Property Insurance Corporation in Florida, reinsurance and ILW pricing, and creating growth and start-up scenarios for several companies.
Bhaskar earned both a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in statistics from Indian Statistical Institute and a master’s degree in economics from Boston University. He also earned a Graduate Certificate in Data Mining and Applications from Stanford University.
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Partner
Nathan Schwartz has been a partner at TigerRisk Partners since 2009 as a member of the analytical team. His expertise touches on the areas of economic capital modeling, reinsurance structure analysis, risk modeling and measurement, risk and capital allocation, and structuring and pricing reinsurance products, including securitized reinsurance. Over the last fifteen years Nathan helped design, analyze, and optimize reinsurance structures for many of the insurance industry’s largest companies.
Nathan began his actuarial career in 1995 at the St. Paul Companies (now Travelers), pricing Medical Malpractice and reserving Specialty Lines. In 1999 Nathan entered reinsurance at E.W. Blanch Co. (now Aon Benfield) where he became the head of the financial modeling department. He has been involved in the development and creation of many risk modeling, risk measurement, and reinsurance optimization tools and techniques with a special focus in catastrophe risk management and optimization. Nathan has performed the financial and risk modeling in support of the raising of nearly $1B of capital for reinsurance “sidecars” and has designed economic capital policies and procedures, built economic capital models for clients, and helped clients allocate capital to risk groups and measure return on capital.
Nathan has a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and computer science from Carleton College and a Master of Science degree in mathematics from Northwestern University. Nathan is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society, a Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst, a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries, and has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Nathan has published and presented before the Casualty Actuarial Society and at other conferences on reinsurance, reinsurance securitization, risk modeling, and risk management topics.
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Camdiss Huang joined TigerRisk China in 2017 as a Senior Vice President. She works with the broking team in Hong Kong to manage current and prospective client relationships and identify innovative solutions to meet client needs.
Prior to joining TigerRisk, Camdiss was the Director at Aon Benfield Hong Kong. She led a team of client managers in building strong client relationships in the Shenzhen and Hong Kong markets by delivering holistic services. Camdiss also worked as a broker at Houlder Insurance Brokers Ltd. placing treaty and facultative business.
She started her (re)insurance career at Guy Carpenter as an Account Executive providing broking support services to clients in Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong.
Camdiss has a Bachelor of Arts (Honour) degree in Financial Services in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a Post-graduate Diploma in Professional Accounting in The City University of Hong Kong. She also holds the ANZIIF Senior Associate designation.
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Michael Fung joined TigerRisk in 2015 as the head of the analytics in Asia. His expertise includes economic capital modeling and assessment (including risk-based capital solvency regimes), commercial and treaty pricing, reinsurance structuring, reinsurance modeling, reserve valuation, and appraisal valuation for insurance mergers & acquisitions.
Prior to joining TigerRisk, Michael worked at a large Lloyd’s syndicate in London as a capital modeling actuary where he was involving in their Solvency II capital assessment. Michael also worked as a consulting actuary at Towers Watson where he provided leadership on consulting projects and developed services in the areas of capital modeling and enterprise risk management for P&C companies across Asia. His clients included government organizations and private sector re/insurers.
Before joining Towers Watson, Michael was the head of analytics at Willis Re in Hong Kong, where he led a team of actuaries to provide reinsurance advice to clients in China and Hong Kong. He was also a managing director at Ultimate Risk Solutions in Asia Pacific where he was responsible for technical sales and support to clients. He started his insurance career at Tillinghast-Towers Perrin, which is now part of Willis Towers Watson.
Michael holds a Master of Engineering (Honour) degree from Christ Church, University of Oxford in England. He is a Fellow of the Institute & Faculty of Actuaries in the United Kingdom, Fellow of the Singapore Actuarial Society, Fellow of the Malaysian Actuarial Society, and Fellow of the Hong Kong Actuarial Society. Michael also sits on several insurance-related, actuarial, regulatory, and professional committees, including:
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CEO (China), Partner
Xuejun Wang joined TigerRisk Partner (China) in 2016 as Chief Executive Officer and has 25 years of experience in the reinsurance business.
Mr. Wang started his career in the reinsurance industry at People’s Insurance Company of China (PICC) in 1992. After working as a reinsurance underwriter in PICC Hebei Branch for over 19 years, Mr. Wang joined Willis Re in 2010 as the Executive Director of Willis Re’s Greater China Beijing office. Under his leadership, the Willis Re Beijing team served Chinese Property and Casualty insurance clients in Northern China, with treaties from both marine and non-marine businesses.
Mr. Wang graduated from Dongbei University of Finance and Economy.
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Prior to joining TigerRisk UK in early 2013, Jessica Tarrant worked in the Claims Department for Bell & Clements Ltd as a Technician and Broker handling Homeowners and Commercial Property claims. Jessica joined TigerRisk UK as a Technician and then transitioned to the London Broking Team in 2014 where she specializes in US Property Treaty and Binding Authorities.
Jessica has worked in the insurance/reinsurance industry for 15 years.
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Chairman – International
Jim Dowd brings 42 years of experience in insurance and reinsurance at the enterprise level to TigerRisk Partners. His career in the industry began as General Counsel of Skandia America Re in 1972 where he ultimately was selected as Chairman and CEO in 1984. He continued in that position until 1992 when he moved to Willis Re where he headed its North American reinsurance practice. He returned to Skandia as CEO in 1995 tasked to sell the company which he did successfully in early 1996. The buyer, Fairfax Financial Holdings of Toronto, Canada, used the Skandia acquisition as a base to found what is today Odyssey Re, a global reinsurer. Jim was a founder of that company.
In 2002 Jim was named Chairman and CEO of Fairfax Asia and led a team to extend Fairfax non-life operations to the Asia region. For the next decade he led the team which acquired or initiated non-life insurance operations in India, China (including Hong Kong), Singapore, and Thailand. During this period, he served on the board of directors of all Asian affiliates and continued to serve as Vice Chairman of Odyssey Re.
Jim is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program, St. John’s University School of Law, and C.W. Post College. He is also a long-time member of the board of overseers of St. John’s University School of Insurance, Risk Management and Actuarial Science. Jim is a veteran of service in the U.S. Marine Corps.
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Heather Roscoe joined TigerRisk (UK) in 2015 as a member of the analytics team supporting U.S. and European clients and performing analytics for prospective clients globally.
She began her career in 2009 at Liberty Mutual Insurance in Liberty’s Corporate Catastrophe Modeling department. Heather’s responsibilities included modeling several lines of business within the vendor models, assisting in the corporate portfolio roll-up, preparing data for reinsurance placements, tracking selected corporate metrics, and analyzing treaty effectiveness.
Heather graduated cum laude from Boston University in 2009 with a major in Mathematics and a Specialization in Statistics. She currently holds the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter, Associate in Reinsurance, and Associate in Risk Management professional designations.
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Prior to joining TigerRisk in 2016, Fiona Maynard started her career in 2010 at Jardine Lloyd Thompson Pty Ltd Australia (JLT Australia) in the role of Broker Assistant. She moved to BMS as a Specialty Casualty Broker focusing on professional liability classes, including Medical Malpractice, General Liability business and Workers Compensation Treaty Reinsurance. She then transitioned into the BMS Property and Casualty Treaty Team, focusing on several larger North American Property Catastrophe Treaty accounts. After 3 years with BMS, Fiona joined Alwen Hough Johnson Limited (AHJ) in 2013 as a Broker on their Property & Casualty North American Reinsurance Team with a focus on Casualty Treaty business.
At TigerRisk, Fiona works on U.S. and London Property, Casualty and Specialty insurance and reinsurance business. She is responsible for maintaining and developing current client relationships as well as looking for new business opportunities.
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Louise Gladding joined TigerRisk Partners (UK) in December 2016 from Croton Stokes Wilson Holden Limited, which was recently acquired by Integro. She specializes in broking and producing North American Binding Authorities and Facilities in various lines of business, having many strong connections in the Lloyd’s and London market.
Prior to working with CSWH Ltd., Louise spent seven years as a placing Broker with HSBC Insurance Brokers and, before that, started her career at JLT.
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Partner
Chris Jenkins has specialized in North American P&C reinsurance for more than a decade. Chris commenced his business career at Coopers & Lybrand (PWC) and then moved to reinsurance broker RK Carvill where he focused on program business. Prior to joining Tiger Risk in 2013, Chris was a Divisional Director at BMS Intermediaries for ten years with account responsibility and direction for significant nationwide and super regional property catastrophe risk, workers’ compensation, and program business placements. Chris was also involved with capital raising and formation of several insurance vehicles. Chris currently serves on the board of a Florida insurance company.
Chris graduated from the University of Southampton with a Bachelor of Science Degree (with honours) and holds the ACII designation.
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Director
Nick Anning joined TigerRisk (UK) in 2012 as a Director and leads the London Broking team. Nick began his career at Chandler Hargreaves and Whittall in 1978. He joined the bespoke Reinsurance Brokers Ellinger Heath Western in 1980 and became an Associate Partner in 1993. Nick remained with the Company as it metamorphosed through various iterations including Benfield Ellinger, Benfield Greig, Benfield Blanch, Benfield, and finally Aon Benfield in 2008.
Nick’s role at Benfield was head of North American Property Treaty in the London office and he continued that role within Aon Benfield. As well as his management duties, Nick was the London Account Executive for several large and medium sized U.S. accounts, as well as being responsible for several non-aligned U.S. property and casualty accounts.
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Chairman & CEO (UK)
Prior to joining TigerRisk in 2013, Hugo Crawley has spent over 30 years in the insurance and reinsurance business, starting his career at a Lloyds Syndicate in 1980 and then joining BMS in 1982, a specialist wholesale North American treaty reinsurance broker.
Hugo held various positions at BMS becoming Chairman of the North American reinsurance broker in 1999 and Group Chairman in 2008. He helped build BMS’ North American platform and was responsible for winning significant clients across the U.S. He helped establish one of the premier Florida depopulation carriers in 1999 and helped create several other respected P&C specialist insurers. Hugo was also instrumental in expanding BMS’ operations and building out their U.S. offices.
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Partner
Marc Lauricella joined TigerRisk Partners in 2008 as one of the founding TigerRisk members and currently serves as a Senior Executive and Partner. In addition to Marc’s management of several large Property catastrophe clients, Marc leads TigerRisk’s Capital Group which develops large strategic relationships between TigerRisk clients and reinsurance capital providers. Marc has extensive experience in risk management solutions and reinsurance/capital placements, working as an insurance business development executive and senior reinsurance advisor/broker for over 25 years.
Prior to joining TigerRisk in 2008, Marc was the Chief Marketing Officer of Praetorian Financial Group, a specialty insurance company, where he was instrumental in originating and growing MGA and Wholesaler production relationships; coordinating/placing corporate reinsurance programs; and re-branding the Company. The sale of the $2B insurance premium company to QBE the Americas was completed in June of 2007.
Before Praetorian, Marc served as an Executive and Branch Manager for both E. W. Blanch Co. and then Benfield, where he was a U.S. Team Leader working with large regional and nationwide insurance companies to grow their portfolios and effectively manage their insurance risk through designing/executing large Property Catastrophe/Quota Share Reinsurance Programs and Corporate Whole Account Reinsurance transactions. Marc also supported the growth of several Insurance Carriers by originating new large MGA relationships and creating risk management solutions for these MGA portfolios.
Marc holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Tulane University and a Master of Business Administration in Finance and Marketing from Tulane University A. B. Freeman School of Business.
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Chris Wojciechowski joined TigerRisk in 2018 and is based in the New York City office. As a member of the Casualty Specialty team, Chris is responsible for new business development along with the advisory and servicing of TigerRisk’s current Casualty reinsurance clients.
Prior to joining TigerRisk, Chris was Associate Director-Treaty Reinsurance at Aon Benfield in Chicago, where he was responsible for a broad portfolio of global, national, and regional Casualty (focusing on Professional Lines) and Mortgage clients. Prior to Aon Benfield, Chris was Director of Business Development for MagMutual Group, a super-regional Medical Professional Liability carrier based in Atlanta. He started his (re)insurance career as a Treaty Analyst at Willis Re in Chicago where he ultimately co-led the Analytics and Insights function of the Healthcare Practice Group.
Chris earned his BA in Economics, with a Minor in Mathematics, from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where he was an Eli Lilly Fellow.
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Daniel Wilson joined TigerRisk in 2017 as a member of the New York team. His responsibilities include supporting and placing personal property and commercial auto reinsurance programs for regional and national carriers.
Prior to TigerRisk, Dan was a Senior Insurance and Retrocession Analyst at Munich Re America. His previous positions include Ceded Reinsurance Analyst for LIG Insurance Company and Analyst for RCA Insurance Group.
Dan earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance at the College of New Jersey and holds both the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter and Associate in Reinsurance professional designations.
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Steven Russo joined TigerRisk in March 2018 as a broker based out of the New York office.
Prior to joining TigerRisk, Steven was a Reinsurance Analyst at Markel Corporation. He worked on the analysis, structuring, placement, and set up of all treaties and as the point of contact for placements, coordinating both internally and externally between departments to streamline communication.
Steven received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Psychology from the University of Virginia and his MBA with certificates in Business Analytics and Project Management from George Washington University.
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Garrett Grover began his reinsurance career at TigerRisk Partners in 2016 upon his graduation from the University of Virginia. Based in the New York City office, Garrett works on analytics, marketing, placing, and servicing of property and casualty treaty business.
Garrett earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Minor in History from the University of Virginia and holds his ARe designation.
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Jessica Groenewegen joined TigerRisk Partners in 2017 as a member of the New York broking team, focusing on casualty accounts. She began her career in (re)insurance through an array of internships, including: Marsh and McLennan Agency, The Niles Agency, Endurance, and Swett & Crawford, while studying at St. John’s University. Through these internships, Jessica broadened her knowledge in several product lines, ranging from Excess and Surplus Lines to VIP Personal Insurance.
Jessica received a Bachelor of Science degree in Risk Management and Insurance from St. John’s University, formerly known as the College of Insurance.
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Craig Carmilani joined TigerRisk in June 2018 as an associate in the New York office. Prior to joining TigerRisk, Craig began his (re)insurance career in 2016 as an intern at Marsh on the FINPRO Financial Institutions team. He then worked for Chubb as an underwriting intern on the financial institutions team before joining TigerRisk full time after graduation.
Craig earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Amherst College where he was a member of the two-time NESCAC Championship football team.
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Partner
Ken Kim joined TigerRisk in 2015 and is based in their New York office. He works closely with clients as an account executive and broker team leader in both property and casualty treaty business. He also works with both new and prospective clients on product development and is a member of TigerRisk’s Casualty Specialty team.
Prior to TigerRisk, Ken worked at Guy Carpenter as a treaty broker for 13 years. While at Guy Carpenter, he worked with a diverse group of clients and prospects to help them grow in new products, as well as acting as an account executive and lead placing broker on various reinsurance treaties. Ken has expertise in a wide range of products including property, standard casualty lines, specialty casualty, workers compensation, professional liability, and other specialty lines.
Prior to Guy Carpenter, Ken worked at Aon Re for 3 years. While at Aon Re, he worked closely with the actuarial and catastrophe modeling team until mid-2000 when he transitioned to work on treaty reinsurance placements.
Ken graduated from the University of Chicago in 1999 while double majoring in Chemistry and Economics. He holds professional designations of RPLU, CPCU and ARe.
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Partner
Kevin Abramson, Casualty Specialty Group Leader, is based out of Philadelphia and is focused on new business development along with bringing innovative, cutting-edge casualty products to TigerRisk’s clients.
Prior to joining TigerRisk, Kevin spent the last 9 years at Willis Re where he most recently served as Executive Vice President responsible for managing and producing some of their largest Casualty clients. Kevin was a member of the Casualty Segment leadership team and was most recently in charge of their Bermuda Excess Casualty sub-segment. Throughout his tenure he also played an integral part in Willis Re’s Healthcare and Professional Lines Segments as some of his larger client relationships were focused in these areas.
Prior to joining Willis Re, Kevin worked for Swiss Re where he focused his attention on Casualty Facultative underwriting and production for a portfolio of global and national clients. He started his career in the reinsurance industry with General Re in 2001 going through their Jump School program and serving as a Casualty Facultative underwriter concentrating on a regional/middle market client base.
Kevin earned his B.S. degree, with a major in Finance and a minor in Accounting from Villanova University in Pennsylvania and currently holds both the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter and Associate in Reinsurance professional designations. He also earned his M.B.A., with a dual major in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship, from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Partner
Seth Ruff joined TigerRisk in October 2017 as Partner and Head of Reinsurance Solutions, charged with amplifying the firm’s creative energy and impact. Seth collaborates with Tiger’s account teams, clients, and reinsurers to develop innovative and individualized reinsurance solutions, whether to facilitate growth, boost efficiency, reduce volatility, or enhance capital flexibility.
Seth joined from Swiss Re, where he spent 16 years, most recently as Managing Director, President of US P&C Core Partners Group and President of Swiss Re Underwriters Agency, Inc. In this role, Seth led a team of client managers and underwriters with responsibility for a multi-billion-dollar portfolio of P&C treaty reinsurance. Previously, Seth held various posts within Swiss Re including ten years in Structured Reinsurance Solutions, where he led the development and delivery of customized reinsurance solutions in the US Broker market, Latin America, and Canada. He also spent six years in casualty underwriting, including one year in Hong Kong. Seth began his insurance industry career as an actuarial consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in San Francisco and London.
Seth is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics from California State University.
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Prior to joining TigerRisk Partners in January 2018, Jeremiah Pawlowicz was the Director of Enterprise Risk Management: Capital Modeling at CNA. Jeremiah began his reinsurance career in 2008 with Aon Re (now Aon Benfield) and from 2008 to 2014, he held various analytics and investment banking positions at Aon Benfield. From 2014 to 2018, Jeremiah worked for CNA Financial Corporation in Cat/Capital Modeling, Predictive Analytics and Enterprise Risk Management.
Jeremiah earned his bachelor’s degree in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis and his master’s degree in business administration from University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He also holds the ARe designation.
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Steve Pfeiffer is a Partner in TigerRisk’s Chicago office where he serves as account executive for several of the firm’s core property, specialty casualty, and retro clients. In that role, he leads cross-functional teams focused on providing strategic advice and crafting innovative solutions to clients’ unique risk and capital management needs. Steve is also engaged in the firm’s business development efforts, cultivating future client partnerships and creating new opportunities to leverage external capacity to decrease (re)insurers’ cost of capital and reduce volatility of earnings.
Steve earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Notre Dame and a Master’s in Business Administration with concentrations in Finance and Entrepreneurship & Innovation from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Prior to joining TigerRisk, Steve worked as a treaty reinsurance broker with Guy Carpenter and held (re)insurance underwriting positions with subsidiaries of General Reinsurance Corporation.
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Megan Hodge is a partner and the Head of Client Strategy at TigerRisk Partners. Before joining TigerRisk, she was the Global Head of Business Development at Metabiota, an epidemiological risk analytics InsurTech firm. Prior to that, she was most recently a Managing Director and the Branch Manager of Guy Carpenter’s Chicago office. She began her career in Arthur Andersen’s financial consulting practice working in complex claims recoveries before pivoting into the role of a reinsurance broker at Aon Benfield in 2002.
Additionally, Megan is actively involved with the Midwest Division – Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), the Oak Park River Forest Infant Welfare Society, and a member of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Chicago-based “Just Cure It” team.
Megan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance with a minor in French from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Mike Schnur is a senior reinsurance leader of the firm with over 40 years in the industry and has both client and future client account responsibilities. Before joining TigerRisk Partners in 2009, Mike was an Executive Vice President with Benfield. He was co-leader of their Client Development practice and a member of their U.S. Executive Committee.
Prior to Benfield, Mike spent 11 years with Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC as an Executive Vice President with various responsibilities. He opened and ran their Chicago office, was head of their Mid-America Region, as well as becoming Global Head of their Business Development efforts. Mike was a member of Guy Carpenter’s Executive Committee. Mike spent 10 years with Aon Re and was a member of their Executive Committee. He began his career as a reinsurance underwriter, first with General Re, and then with F&G Re.
Mike is a graduate of Drake University, with a BSBA in Accounting, and is a CPA.
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Jacki Wagner began her reinsurance career at Benfield (now Aon Benfield) in 2003 in the contract writing department and transitioned to broking upon joining TigerRisk in 2012. As a member of the current client team, Jacki focuses primarily on Property business and is responsible for designing and implementing innovative reinsurance solutions and servicing a number of regional accounts. Jacki also leads the placement of property facultative business for several regional clients.
Jacki holds a B.S. in Business Management, an MBA, and an M.A. in Strategic Leadership from Bethel University.
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Jason Wong joined TigerRisk Partners in 2015 as a member of the analytics team focusing on catastrophe and reinsurance modeling in the Hong Kong office. In 2019, Jason transferred to the actuarial group in the Minneapolis office to support LPT and casualty clients.
Prior to this position, Jason began his reinsurance career in 2014 as an underwriting intern at Asia Capital Reinsurance.
Jason earned a Master’s of Science in Finance from the Imperial College of London and a Bachelor’s of Arts in Economics and Statistics from the University of California–Berkeley. He currently holds CEEM designation and is actively taking the CAS actuarial exam.
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Kevin Feldman joined TigerRisk in 2019 to lead the formation of TigerRisk’s West Coast platform. Kevin has over 16 years of reinsurance broking experience with a focus on the Property Catastrophe segment. He has become an expert in the earthquake sector, establishing himself as an industry leader in both residential and commercial programs and has a robust background in the programs space, helping Managing General Agents and carriers build profitable partnerships.
Kevin began his career in London at Dennis M. Clayton before joining John B. Collins in San Francisco. In 2006, Kevin helped established the Orange County, CA office for John B. Collins. The company was subsequently absorbed by Guy Carpenter, and he spent the next ten years at the organization, most recently with the title of Managing Director.
Kevin is a graduate of California State University San Marcos with a B.S. in Business Administration.
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Bing Lin joined TigerRisk China in 2018 as an Associate with a dual role of analyst and broker. Bing applies his expertise and experience in the areas of actuarial science, catastrophe modeling, reinsurance structuring and pricing, and management of client relationships.
Prior to joining TigerRisk, Bing worked for Ernst & Young as a Senior Actuarial Consultant. He participated in reserve auditing for several of the largest Chinese P&C insurance companies, as well as actuarial and risk management consulting programs in the Chinese insurance market. Before joining Ernst & Young, he worked for Willis Re for more than 3 years as an actuarial analyst.
Bing holds a Master of Economics degree in Actuarial Science and a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics, both from Nankai University.
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