NRP UW - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder, Abry Partners
Andrew Banks co-founded Abry in 1989. Prior to this, Andrew was affiliated with Bain & Company, where he shared responsibility for Bain's media practice.
Job Titles:
- Director of International Subsidiaries at Verlingue Group
Verlingue Group & Adelaide Holdings
Benjamin is the Director of International Subsidiaries at Verlingue Group, the leading independent French broker, and Deputy CEO for Development at Adelaide Group. Prior to this he was a Consultant at Deloitte France.
Benjamin earned his Masters from Université Paris Dauphine.
Job Titles:
- Senior Member
- Senior Underwriter, Media, Tech & Cyber
Glenn is a senior member of the team focused on underwriting Media, Tech and Cyber risk, and has spent the last 14 years in this class of business.
Glenn Crickmar joins Rob, continuing their long history of working together at Axis since 2009.
Kabir's career has been focused on investing in the insurance industry.
He started his career at Goldman Sachs in the Reinsurance Team, and following this spent the last 8 years working in private equity, most recently at Preservation Capital where he had a key role on the BMS and Optio investments.
Job Titles:
- CEO, VALE Insurance Partners
- Co - Founder & CEO of VALE
Philip is Co-founder & CEO of VALE, a leading global transactional risk MGA. Prior to VALE he spent several years in the private equity industry at HIG and started his career as an investment banker at Wachovia Securities.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder, Euston Ventures
Raj is a co-founder of Euston Ventures, a UK investment firm, where he has co-led 3 buyouts since 2014.
Job Titles:
- Chairman & Head of Media, Tech & Cyber
- Media Insurance Market Leader
Rob is one of the foremost underwriters in Media & Tech insurance, having spent his entire career in the class. Before founding Nirvana in 2017, Rob headed up the Media & Tech team at Axis, and prior to that was at Hiscox and Aon for a number of years.
Rob has a BA from King's College London.
Job Titles:
- Partner at Investment Firm M2O
- Partner, M2O Inc
Shaun is a Partner at investment firm M2O. Shaun has spent several years in the private equity industry, and started his career at Bain & Co.
Job Titles:
- Partner, Head of Europe
- W & I Expert
Thomas is a distinguished W&I underwriter in the European market. He has over 20 years of relevant insurance industry experience across different European markets, most recently at Sompo where he was head of Europe Specialty, and prior to that at ANV and HCC.
W&I expert Thomas Mannsdorfer joins the business, previously head of Specialty Europe at Sompo, to build out a W&I franchise.