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Unterföhring, Bavaria, De

Design and place various bespoke structured insurance Property & Liability excess of loss and integrated corporate solutions for commercial global and regional tech, manufacturing, supply chain distribution, trucking, telecommunications, real estate and finance type of corporate entities looking for insurance coverage above their traditional primary risk layers or captive retentions.Build and construct captive fronting insurance schemes for large corporates looking to retain more risk due to betterments of captive management or shifts in industry, regulatory and/or market dynamics.Develop, price and structure various bespoke tailor-made pro-rata and excess of loss structured reinsurance solutions for treaty property & casualty insurers on a mono-line, multi-line and whole account prospective and retrospective coverage basis.

Pembroke, Hamilton, Bm

Built and constructed the core business plan, marketing and underwriting strategy for ACR's global Structured/ART Solutions department.Created and developed reinsurance and risk management optimization strategies for various types regional APAC middle market insurers.Designed, structured, and placed various prospective Quota Share and retrospective Loss Portfolio Transfer and Adverse Development reinsurance covers for middle market SME and global insurers aimed at providing capital relief and/or solvency relief by improving their C-ROSS/RBC II/S&P/Solvency II capital positions.Priced and structured various tailor-made (re)insurance coverages for InsurTech P&C lead market companies on an Aggregate Excess of Loss and Structured Quota Share basis.Constructed and configured various Corporate Solution structured (re)insurance coverages aimed at alleviating VAR/Shortfall/Credit Default/Tail risk and capital-at-risk requirements for financial institutions.Responsible for validating RMS AEP/OEP modelling assumptions and ensuring accuracy of overall pricing and modeling assumptions for the Structured Alternative Risk Transfer(ART) portfolio.Developed and created the Structured/ART department underwriting and actuarial guidelines to ensure alignment with overall corporate strategic goals and objectives.

Business Development/Director of Sales.Provided forward-looking view of expected financial performance based on loss ratio, retention, frequency/severity, class of business and insurance coverage level objective functions.Designed and created various price, portfolio & retention optimization strategies by identifying policyholders that were profitable with poor retention and target for increased renewal and by identifying non-profitable policyholders that retained well and target for non-renewal.Designed and created various portfolio optimization and retention strategies by identifying and developing target market and agency management campaign strategies for insurers utilizing big data analytics concepts.Responsible for aligning each client company's strategic goals with business development objectives using generalized linear modeling(GLM) and non-linear decision tree segmentation/scoring machine learning models as an enterprise-wide solution to addressing issues from a pricing, underwriting, and marketing risk perspective.

Zurich, Zurich, Ch

Deal Team Leader and lead negotiator for placement of various Structured Alternative Risk Transfer Solutions in North and South America.Assessed deal potential for relevant pricing, underwriting, market, legal, regulatory and reputational risk factors for various multi-year bespoke Treaty Property & Casualty Excess of Loss and Pro-rata reinsurance coverages.

Munich, Bavaria, De

Built and created various Property & Casualty pricing tools for treaty new and renewal business.Analyzed and evaluated the adequacy of year-end overall Loss & Alae IBNR loss reserves for Munich Re Americas porfolio.