Welcome to Trading Risk Live
Trading Risk Live is a virtual conference that will gather leading ILS and reinsurance market executives as the 2020 hurricane season draws to a close and the build-up approaches to the key January catastrophe renewals.
It has been a fast-paced run-up to hurricane season in some areas of the ILS market – with cat bond volumes shooting up and the most tumultuous Florida renewal since Hurricane Katrina. But the Covid-19 pandemic has created bigger challenges to other activities such as fundraising, with inflows pausing as investors weigh up the new landscape. Yet private equity capital on the wings is seemingly looking to back start-up carriers and existing traditional growth platforms over the ILS route.
- Can the ILS market change the course of this momentum in the run-up to 2021 and position itself for another era of expansion?
- How will the post-Covid market shape future structures of the ILS world, and influence future hedging capacity available in the retro segment as well as serving buyers’ changing risk appetites?
What to expect of Trading Risk Live?
Networking
Connect with key industry figures virtually
1 Day
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15+ speakers
Thought leaders, industry heavyweights and game-changing service providers
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Network and connect with the international ILS industry
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Joe Guardo is Executive Vice President and head of OdysseyRe’s U.S. Property, Marine and Aerospace treaty business units. He joined OdysseyRe in 1996 and has more than 25 years of experience managing the underwriting of property and casualty and specialty lines in the U.S. and Canada. His extensive knowledge of property lines covers not only standard pro rata and excess of loss contracts, but also retrocessional protections ranging from ILW’s to cat bonds. He also has expertise in technical lines including onshore and offshore energy exposures, and in general aviation.
Joe is currently leading an in-house IT initiative to build a reinsurance processing system and underwriting platform from scratch. He also serves on Odyssey Group’s Innovation Working Group.
Prior to OdysseyRe, Joe served as an AVP at Transatlantic Reinsurance Company. He began his career at Constitution Re and holds a B.A. in Economics from Trinity College in Hartford, CT.
Bruce is the co-founder of Heritage Insurance and has led the company from a start-up Florida insurer to a Super Regional Insurer with over $1 billion of in-force premium in 16 states. He is well known for his leadership and entrepreneurial skills, and brings creativity and out-of-the-box thinking into making Heritage a best of breed company. He has led Heritage to profitability every year since inception while managing eight hurricanes, several tropical storms, and the challenges related to fraud and AOB in Florida. Prior to Heritage, Mr. Lucas was co-founder and CEO of Infinity Investment Funds and an attorney with Weil, Gotshal & Manges where he represented large institutional clients such as Enron and GE. Mr. Lucas graduated cum laude from Indiana University Law School with a B.A. and J.D., and was a Sigmund J. Beck Scholar. Mr. Lucas is most passionate about education based charities like the Pinellas Education Foundation and Step Up for Students as he feels education provided him with the opportunity to succeed and has been a major key to his success. Outside of the office, Mr. Lucas enjoys exercising, golf, and travel.
Frank co-founded Nephila Capital. Today he is Co-CEO and President of Nephila Holdings and a Director of Nephila Capital. His main focus is on risk management and the firm’s strategy. Frank has a BA in Economics from Vanderbilt and an MBA in Finance from the Owen Graduate School of Management. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst charter holder.
Ian Newman is a partner and part of the team that transferred from Arthur J. Gallagher to Capsicum Re in October 2014. He runs the specialty unit which focusses on a number of diverse classes with Cyber becoming the dominant part of the portfolio. Ian is now looking to grow the cyber team considerably over the coming 12 months in order to capitalise on this opportunity in the market and further their positon as the leading Cyber Reinsurance team. Ian was part of the Execution Re team that completed an MBO in December 2012, in conjunction with Arthur J. Gallagher helping to create its treaty platform AJG Re. Ian was named ‘young broker of the year’ at the Insider Honours Awards in 2014
Chris Parry is responsible for structuring and managing RenaissanceRe's catastrophe joint ventures, including DaVinci, Upsilon, Vermeer, Top Layer and the Medici Fund. He also leads investor relations and capital raising for the Ventures function. Prior to joining RenaissanceRe in 2016, Mr. Parry was head of the International Capital Markets team at Aon Securities with a specific focus on insurance linked securities. Mr. Parry led several successful International cat bond and sidecar transactions. Prior to this, Mr. Parry gained 10 years of experience working with Dresdner Kleinwort Investment Bank as a structurer on the Alternative Risk Transfer desk and at Citigroup in London. Mr. Parry is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has a BSc degree in Management Science from the University of Warwick.
Sharry serves as Deputy Chief Underwriting Officer for the Reinsurance Division and is the Head of US Property Facultative Reinsurance. Sharry has held numerous roles at Everest over the past nine years, including Senior Vice President of Property and Specialty and has headed our Weather Reinsurance Trading Division from 2011 to mid-2020.
Since joining Everest from Munich Re in 2011, Sharry has been instrumental in building out our profitable Treaty Property book. She was pivotal in the strategy and execution transitioning Everest from our old manual underwriting workflow process to the new paperless and automated system and underwriting platforms – both have been game changers for the Group. She chairs our Innovation Committee further driving technology to support the evolving needs of the business.
Outside of her day-to-day responsibilities, Sharry serves on the Board of Advisors for the Association of Professional Insurance Women. She was instrumental in establishing a mentorship program at Everest Re and has also mentored students at St. John’s University.
Sharry is a graduate of University of Delaware. She also has two daughters and lives in Somerset, NJ