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John P. Doucette is President and CEO of the Reinsurance Division. For the previous five years he held the title of Chief Underwriting Officer of Everest Re Group. Prior to this, he was head of Enterprise Risk Management for the Group, having joined the Company in 2008 as Executive Vice President.
Prior to Everest, Mr. Doucette worked at Max Re Capital Ltd. from 2000 to 2008, as President and Chief Underwriting Officer of the P&C Reinsurance division, where he was responsible for new products and geographic expansion. Prior to that, he was an Associate Director at Swiss Re New Markets between 1997 and 2000, a division of Swiss Reinsurance Company, where he held various pricing, structuring and underwriting roles in connection with alternative risk transfer and structured products. He worked at Tillinghast as a consultant from 1989 to 1997.
Mr. Doucette graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics and Biometry from Cornell University.
Dirk Lohmann started his career with Hannover Re in 1980. In 1997 he assumed responsibility for the reinsurance activities of Zurich Financial Services. In 2001 Mr. Lohmann managed the spin-off of ZFS’ assumed reinsurance business into Converium where he served as CEO until 2005. Dirk founded Secquaero in 2007 which today acts as the exclusive advisor to Schroders Group on ILS investments with assets currently in around $3bn. Schroders holds a 50.1% shareholding in Secquaero Advisors Ltd.
Dirk has a long track record in developing insurance linked capital markets instruments. This includes Kover Ltd., first transfer of catastrophe risk to the capital markets through insurance linked notes in 1994, the portfolio linked K-2 Swap (1996), Trinom (2001) and Helix (2004) and two award winning life securitisations SQ ReVita I Ltd (2011) and SQ ReVita II Ltd (2015).
Mr. Lohmann also serves as a non-executive director of Schroder Investment Management (Switzerland) AG and Talanx AG.
He has a BA from the University of Michigan, an MBA from the Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto and an Executive MBA from the University of St. Gallen.
Anthony Rettino serves as Founding Partner and Senior Portfolio Manager for Elementum Advisors, LLC and also serves as Director and CEO of Elementum (Bermuda) Ltd. Tony has managed a variety of reinsurance and risk-linked investment strategies since 1997. Prior to Elementum, he co-managed the reinsurance and risk-linked investments team at Stark Investments from September 2005 through November 2009. Tony earned a BBA in Accountancy with high honors from the University of Notre Dame, an MBA in Finance and Statistics with honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive status). Other career highlights:
- 2011: Awarded “Contributor of the Year” award by Trading Risk magazine
- 1/2002 – 8/2005: Managing Director of Cochran, Caronia Securities LLC; jointly responsible for the firm’s asset management activities
- 1/1997 – 12/2001: Managing Director and head of Aon Capital Markets’ US-based operations
- 6/1993 – 12/1996: Founded and led Aon’s Financial Risk Management group; the group’s responsibilities included RLI, asset/liability management, and hedging of investment portfolios
Paul Schultz serves as CEO of Aon Securities, responsible for providing investment banking products and services to Aon’s clients on a global basis. Paul specializes in providing clients with strategic advice and access to capital markets.
Paul began his career in banking in 1986 and spent 14 years at JP Morgan (its predecessor banks), specializing in the Insurance Practice from 1989. Since joining Aon in 2000, Paul has advised Aon plc on issuing the first ever securitization of private equity limited partnerships and advised clients on M&A, starting new companies, issuing senior and subordinated debt, issuing equity and raising alternative capital via the issuance of catastrophe bonds, sidecars and other collateralized structures and derivatives thereof.
Paul earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University. Paul also earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Kellogg School of Management. Additionally, Paul is a Chartered Financial Analyst.