ASPEN - Key Persons
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- Group Chief Investment Officer
Aileen Mathieson joined Aspen in November 2021, as the Group Chief Investment Officer and is based in the London office. She brings more than 15 years of investment and financial experience, and previously served at Aberdeen Standard Investments where she was Global Head of Insurance.
Prior to this, Aileen was CIO, UK Life for Zurich and during her career also held senior finance roles at Nucleus Financial Group plc, Standard Life Group, Diageo plc and EMI Music. Aileen started her career at KPMG.
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- Michael J. Kevany / XL Professor of Risk Management
Mr. Beer has over 40 years of actuarial and management experience in the insurance industry and has also served as a director of Aspen Bermuda Limited since July 2014. Mr. Beer previously held various Executive roles at American Re-Insurance Corporation/Munich Re America, which included the active supervision of principal financial and accounting officers.
Mr. Beer is the Michael J. Kevany/XL Professor of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science at The Peter J. Tobin College of Business School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science at St. John's University. Mr. Beer graduated Phi Betta Kappa from Manhattan College with a B.S. in Mathematics and holds an M.A. in Mathematics from the University of Colorado.
Mr. Beer was appointed to the Board on July 23, 2019 after having previously served on the Board from February 4, 2011 until February 15, 2019.
Mr. Humphreys is a Partner at Apollo, which he joined in 2008. Prior to this, Mr. Humphreys worked at Goldman Sachs in its financial institutions M&A team. Mr. Humphreys also currently serves on the boards of various Apollo portfolio companies including Athora Holding, Ltd, Catalina Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd., Luminescence Cooperatief U.A., and Amissima Holdings, S.r.l. He previously served on the board of directors of HD Finance Holdings Limited (parent of Haydock Finance Holdings Limited), Latecoere S.A., and Seguradoras Unidas S.A. (parent of Tranquilidade). He was appointed as a Director of the Board on February 15, 2019 and, in addition to being a member of the Compensation and Risk Committees, he is also a member of the board of Highlands Bermuda Holdco, Ltd., Highlands Manco, Ltd. and Highlands Holdings Bond Issuer, Ltd.
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- Global Head of Casualty and Head of Asia Pacific
Beatrice Morley was appointed Head of Asia Pacific in June 2021 to coincide with her role as Global Head of Casualty for Aspen Re that she's held since 2017. She is based in Singapore.
She joined Aspen in 2011 to build the Asian casualty treaty and facultative portfolio. In 2015, she was appointed Head of Casualty Treaty for Asia Pacific with responsibility for all Aspen Re's casualty lines of business in the region.
Prior to joining Aspen, she worked for Swiss Re and Catlin in Singapore where she specialised in various lines of casualty treaty and facultative business.
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- Group Chief Actuarial Officer
Bill Miller joined Aspen in July 2021. Previously, he was with KPMG in Bermuda where he was Managing Director, Actuarial, responsible for advising some of the leading international (re)insurers. Prior to joining KPMG in 2014, Bill spent 12 years at Chubb legacy ACE, where he was latterly Chief Actuary for its Risk Management & Foreign Casualty divisions.
Bill's actuarial career spans 35 years within the non-life sector and also includes roles at Travelers, NCCI, Reliance National and at Willis Towers Watson working as a senior consultant actuary.
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- Chief Executive Officer of Aspen Capital Partners
Brian Tobben was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Aspen Capital Partners, a division of Aspen, in May 2021. Prior to this, he served as the Chief Executive Officer for Aspen Capital Markets.
Before joining Aspen, Brian was at Partner Reinsurance for almost 10 years, most recently as Head of Insurance Linked Securities where he managed a portfolio of catastrophe ILS, life ILS, weather and commodity investments and before that, as Vice President, Weather. Prior to this, Brian was at Aquila Energy where he held a number of roles including Vice President, Business Development, Weather.
Job Titles:
- Chief Underwriting Officer
- Chief Executive Officer U.S. and Chief Underwriting Officer
Bruce Eisler was appointed Chief Executive Officer U.S. and Chief Underwriting Officer, Aspen Insurance in June 2020. Bruce has held various senior level roles with Reliance National, ACE USA and Liberty International Underwriters - part of Liberty Mutual Group - where he was the Senior Vice President of Professional Liability Underwriting before joining Aspen in January 2010
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- Vice President, Communications
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- Group Chief Underwriting Officer
Christian Dunleavy was named Group Chief Underwriting Officer in January 2022, after holding several leadership positions at Aspen since joining in 2015. During his tenure, he has served as Head of Global Property Catastrophe, Chief Underwriting Officer of Aspen Re, CEO of Aspen Bermuda, and Chief Underwriting Officer of Aspen Bermuda Limited.
Prior to joining Aspen, Christian spent several years at Axis Reinsurance, where he was a Senior Vice President and responsible for U.S. Property Treaty, Caribbean Property, and Workers Compensation Catastrophe business. Before joining Axis in 2002, he was a Senior Analyst at RenaissanceRe, where he focused on multi-peril modeling, pricing, and portfolio analysis.
In addition to his responsibilities at Aspen, Christian is also a Director of the Association of Bermuda International Companies and the Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers, as well as an Independent Director of CG Coralisle Group.
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- Group Chief Financial Officer
Chris Coleman was appointed Group Chief Financial Officer, effective October 19th, 2021. Chris was most recently CFO of Third Point Re until its merger with Sirius Group. Chris has strong transaction and capital markets experience, including the recent acquisition of Sirius Group by Third Point Re, Third Point Re's IPO as well as having had key roles in a number of other merger, debt and equity transactions during his career.
Chris also served as CFO of Alterra Bermuda Limited, was Chief Accounting Officer for Harbor Point Limited and held a senior audit manager role with PwC.
David has extensive experience in the insurance industry, having most recently served as Commissioner of Insurance for the State of Florida, leading the Office of Insurance Regulation ("OIR") between April 2016 and December 2022. David started at the OIR in 2008, serving in a number of increasingly senior roles, including as Director of Property & Casualty Financial Oversight and, prior to assuming the role of Commissioner, as Deputy Commissioner of Property and Casualty Insurance.
Amongst other market leadership roles, David was a member of Florida's Blockchain Task Force and, during the COVID-19 pandemic, was selected as a member of Florida's Re-Open Florida Task Force Industry Working Group on Agriculture, Finance, Government, Healthcare, Management and Professional Services.
David has also held multiple leadership positions within The National Association of Insurance Commissioners, most recently as President.
David was appointed to the Board on March 7, 2023.
David Amaro was appointed Group General Counsel in January 2023, previously being named Group Head of Legal in January 2022. Before joining Aspen, David spent seven years with Hamilton Insurance Group and Hamilton Re, most recently, until June 2021 as Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Hamilton Re. Prior to that, he was an in-house solicitor with Ark Syndicate Management in London, having previously completed his training contract at Clyde & Co LLP's London office.
David is a member in good standing of the Bermuda Bar Association and the Law Society of England & Wales.
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- Deputy Chief Operating Officer Reinsurance
- Deputy COO
- in 2005 As a Senior Business Analyst
Deirdre Brennan was appointed Deputy COO Reinsurance in January 2021. Deirdre joined Aspen in 2005 as a Senior Business Analyst and spent 8 years in the IT function. She then moved to the Reinsurance division leading the Change programme which involved implementing a new operational model for the Reinsurance Operations function. In 2017 she was appointed Global Head of Reinsurance Underwriting Operations and Change Management. Deirdre is also Chairperson of the UK CSR committee.. Prior to joining Aspen, Deirdre started her career in IT in the Life & Pensions sector before providing IT consulting predominantly in the London Insurance Market.
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- Portfolio Director First Party
Don Keahon joined Aspen in 2010 to build and lead our US Inland Marine underwriting operations. Since that time Don has taken on increasing responsibilities, assuming leadership for both the Inland and Ocean Marine portfolios in 2019 and all US First Party lines in 2021. Don was promoted to the role of Portfolio Director for First Party in July 2022. Prior to joining Aspen Don held several marine underwriting and management roles with Chubb and One Beacon where he was the Vice President, Head of Inland Marine - and brings more than 32 years underwriting experience to our team.
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- Portfolio Director Specialty
- Role of Portfolio Director of the Specialty
Erik Armellino has held the role of Portfolio Director of the Specialty portfolio since July 2022. Erik joined Aspen in 2016 to lead our International Energy operation. Prior to joining Aspen Erik was Head of Underwriting Performance and Head of Property Direct and Facultative at Advent Underwriting Limited. Prior to this he was Global Head of Heavy Industries and the Deputy Regional Manager for the Energy & Construction segments at Liberty International. He has also held underwriting leadership positions with AIG in London and started his career as a risk engineer for Factory Mutual Group.
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- Senior Partner and Global Head of the Financial Institutions Group at Apollo
Mr. Lohr is a Senior Partner and Global Head of the Financial Institutions Group at Apollo, which he joined in May 2007. Prior to joining Apollo, Mr. Lohr was a founding partner at Infinity Point LLC, Apollo's joint venture partner for the financial services industry, since 2005. Before that time, Mr. Lohr spent eight years in financial services investment banking at Goldman Sachs & Co in New York and also worked at McKinsey & Company and B. Metzler Corporate Finance in Frankfurt. Currently, Mr. Lohr serves on the board of directors of Athora Holding, Ltd., Catalina Holdings and Oldenburgische Landesbank. Mr. Lohr has previously served on the board of directors of Tranquilidade, Amissima Vita S.p.A., Amissima Assicurazioni S.p.A., Bremer Kreditbank Aktiengesellschaft, Nova Kreditna banka Maribor d.d. and KBS Banka d.d. Mr. Lohr has a joint Master's Degree in Economics and Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and received a Masters in Business Administration from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- Member of the Group Executive Committee
- Group Chief Strategy Officer
Henry MacHale was appointed Chief Strategy Officer and a member of the Group Executive Committee in July 2022, focusing on the formulation, execution and communication of the Aspen Group Strategy. He is the Global Sponsor for the Race and Ethnicity Employee Resource Group within Aspen's D&I workstream, and a member of the Underwriting Super Group for ESG.
Formerly, Henry was the Portfolio Director for First Party & Specialty, and stood as co-CUO AIUK for three years reporting to the UK Board of Directors. He previously held the role of Global Head of Specialty, and ran Aspen's Crisis Management business for several years conducting business across the United States, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Prior to joining Aspen Henry ran his own business in Nairobi, Kenya, and has extensive experience operating in sub-Saharan Africa. Before that, Henry was on the Graduate Training program at JP Morgan in London.
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- Group Chief Risk Officer
- Member of the Group Executive Committee
Jenny Kane was appointed Group Chief Risk Officer and a member of the Group Executive Committee in August 2022. Formerly, she was the Group Head of Risk and Chief Risk Officer of Aspen Bermuda Limited.
Prior to joining Aspen, Jenny worked at the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), where she was responsible for the prudential supervision of specialty insurance and reinsurance companies operating in the Lloyd's and London Market.
Job Titles:
- Chief Underwriting Officer
- Chief Underwriting Officer, Reinsurance
John Welch was appointed Chief Underwriting Officer, Reinsurance in June 2023.
John has over 30 years of global experience in reinsurance, including executive roles across global players. He was most recently Chief Executive, Domestic Markets at AXA XL Re, where he led local reinsurance underwriting teams around the world. He previously held a number of senior roles at AXA XL, XL Catlin Group and XL Group.
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- Deputy Group Chief Claims Officer
Jon Steer was appointed Deputy Group Chief Claims Officer in August 2019. He started his reinsurance career in 1986 as an LMX retro placing broker at CE Heath. He briefly left London to work on the London International Financial Futures Exchange as a trading assistant for James Capel, a UK stockbroker.
Jon was one of the 39 Wellington employees who set up Wellington Re in June 2002. He started with us as the property reinsurance claims manager within Aspen Insurance UK and progressed to become the head of claims for Aspen Insurance Limited and then group head of claims, before assuming his current role.
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- Business Development Officer
- Group Chief
- Chief Business Development Officer, a Member
Jonny Atkinson was appointed Chief Business Development Officer, a member of the Group Executive Committee, in June 2020 focusing on Distribution, Marketing and other opportunities for the Aspen Group.
Prior to that he was both Head of Insurance London from May 2019 and Global Head of Distribution, Marketing & Communication. He is a Director of Blue Marble Microinsurance Ltd, a growing commercial and socially impactful affiliate company. He is Chair of the Marketing Communications and Sustainability Committee and the Chair of AUKSSL, Aspen's distribution service company for Lloyd's Syndicate 4711. He joined the firm in June 2011 with 20 years of broking experience, holding leadership positions in both the UK and Bermuda. Before joining the industry Jonny gained a degree in economics from Cambridge University and was a professional cricketer for Somerset.
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- Portfolio Director - FINPRO
Justin Camara joined Aspen in January of 2010 as a founding member of the Professional Liability department. Justin is now the Executive Vice President and Portfolio Director of FinPro.
Currently based in San Francisco, Justin has over 24 years of experience dedicated to underwriting these segments. Justin's previous work history includes opening the professional liability operations for Tamarack American (a division of Great American Insurance Co.) and Liberty International Underwriters (a division of Liberty Mutual Group) in San Francisco.
Justin began his career with AIG, underwriting professional liability in New York. Justin is licensed as a Resident Insurance Producer in California and has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Santa Clara University.
Job Titles:
- Executive Chairman
- Group Chief Executive Officer
Mark Cloutier was appointed Executive Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer of Aspen on February 15, 2019. He had previously been Executive Chairman of the Brit Group, a Lloyd's of London insurer, since January 2017 and prior to this, he was Chief Executive Officer of the Brit Group from October 2011 following its acquisition by Apollo and certain other private equity firms. As Chief Executive Officer of the Brit Group, Mark led a major restructuring of Brits' global business, the successful listing on the London stock exchange through an initial public offering in 2014 as well as the subsequent acquisition of the business by Fairfax Financial Holdings in 2015.
With over 35 years' experience working in the international insurance and reinsurance sector in multiple jurisdictions including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Bermuda, Continental Europe, Asia, China and South Africa, Mark has held a number of Chief Executive Officer and senior executive positions, including Chief Executive Officer of the Alea Group, Chief Executive Officer of Overseas Partners Re and President of E.W. Blanch Insurance Services Inc. He had been a member of the Franchise Board and Audit Committee of the Society of Lloyd's between February 2015 and June 2020 and was appointed to the Nomination and Governance Committee in February 2017. He currently serves on the Board of Overseers of the Maurice R. Greenberg School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science in New York.
Mark has worked with a variety of private equity investors including Apollo Management International LLP, CVC Capital Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and Fortress. He started his career in British Columbia Canada with Brouwer and company independent loss adjusters before moving on to form his own firm, Maxwell Cloutier Adjusters Ltd.
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- Chief Executive Officer of Aspen Bermuda Limited, Group Chief Capital Management Officer & Treasurer
Mark Pickering has 20 years of experience in the (re)insurance industry and was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Aspen Bermuda Limited in January 2022 in addition to his roles as Group Chief Capital Management Officer and Treasurer. Mark is also a Director of Aspen Bermuda Limited and represents the Company as the Group and Aspen Bermuda Principal Representative. Mark joined Aspen in September 2015 and previously held the role of Chief Financial Officer of Aspen Bermuda Limited.
Prior to joining Aspen, Mark was Senior Vice President, Treasurer with Platinum Underwriters Holdings, Ltd. from 2006 to 2015. Mark is a Chartered Financial Analyst, Chartered Professional Accountant (Chartered Accountant) and also an Associate in Reinsurance.
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- Principal in the London Private Equity Team at Apollo
Mr. Saffer is a Principal in the London Private Equity team at Apollo, having joined in 2015. Prior to joining Apollo, he was a member of the M&A group at Credit Suisse in London. Mr. Saffer has been involved in various private equity transactions including Apollo's acquisition of Oldenburgische Landesbank (formerly known as Bremer Kreditbank AG), Catalina Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd., Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited and Covis Group S.a.r.l. Mr. Saffer was appointed as a Director of the Board on February 15, 2019 and is also a member of the boards of Highlands Bermuda Holdco, Ltd., Highlands Manco, Ltd., Highlands Holdings Bond Issuer, Ltd., Covis Group S.a.r.l. and Gamenet Group S.p.A. Mr. Saffer graduated from the University of Nottingham with a BSc in Economics.
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- Company As Chief People Officer
- Group Chief People and Communications Officer
Mohinder Kang joined the Company as Chief People Officer in November 2019 and subsequently took on responsibility for the Group Communications function in June 2020. In January 2021, he was appointed Chief People & Transformation Officer and he currently leads Aspen's HR function and Transformation Program. Prior to joining Aspen, he was employed by the UK Post Office where he was Group HR Director. Mohinder's extensive experience includes leading significant HR, Communication and change programs and teams, and has worked as part of several Executive teams for the past 25 years across different business sectors.
Mohinder had previously served as Group HR and Corporate Communications Director at Hyperion Insurance Group for two years, and Group Chief Human Resources Officer at QBE Insurance Group for 10 years, as well as Organisation Development Director at Zurich Financial Services for eight years.
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- Global Product Head Specialty Re
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- Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute
- Global Head of Property Reinsurance
Philip was appointed Global Head of Property Reinsurance in July 2019, having held leading roles within Property, EMEA and Asia Pacific at Aspen Re for over the last 16 years.
He joined Aspen in November 2005 as a senior international property reinsurance treaty underwriter. In July 2007 he was appointed head of Aspen's European property treaty business following the opening of its Zurich Branch, and from January 2017 he was Managing Director of Aspen's Asia Pacific business in Singapore, prior to relocating to Zurich in July 2021.
Prior to joining Aspen, Philip was a vice president at Transatlantic Re in Paris. Philip is an associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute (ACII) and is fluent in German and French.
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- Non - Executive Director of Hansa Investment Company Limited
Mr. Lightowler has over 25 years' experience in financial services public accounting focused on reinsurance and insurance clients, including non-life and life, primary and reinsurance, run-off as well as specialized risk vehicles, including ILS structures and segregated cell companies. He was a Partner with KPMG from 1998 to 2016, where he spent over 16 years serving as global lead audit partner for SEC registrants and as well as reinsurance groups listed on the London Stock Exchange. He also served as Head of the KPMG Bermuda Insurance Practice. He has significant private and public equity and debt offering experience and has worked on significant cross-border mergers and acquisitions including Buy-side/Sell-side due diligence, structuring and post-acquisition integration.
Mr. Lightowler is currently a Non-Executive Director of Hansa Investment Company Limited, Geneva Re Limited, Oakley Capital Investments Limited, Somersfield Academy and Bermuda Red Cross. Mr. Lightowler was appointed as a Director of the Board on December 10, 2020. Mr. Lightowler was appointed as a Director of the Board on December 10, 2020 and was appointed Chairman of the Audit Committee June 10, 2021.
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- Chief Executive Officer, Aspen UK and AMAL
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- Group Chief Operating Officer
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- Active Underwriter of Syndicate 4711
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- Senior Managing Director, Aspen Re America
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- Chief Financial Officer, Aspen Re, and Chief Financial Officer, Aspen Bermuda Limited
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- Chief Financial Officer, Aspen Insurance and Aspen U.S. and U.S. Chief of Operations
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- Group Head of Internal Audit
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- Group Chief Claims Officer
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- Portfolio Director - Casualty
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- Head of Corporate Communications
- Media and Press Contacts
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- Executive Vice President, Chief Management Liability Officer