Jesse Decouto Email & Phone Number

Bermuda

Hamilton, Bermuda

• Leveraging my extensive professional experience, I direct all aspects of the underwriting activities for Validus Re which involves monitoring and controlling exposures across all lines. My job is to collaborate with.
• Risk Mitigation: Established outwards reinsurance review and improved retrocessional protections where appropriate while also enhancing deployment capabilities via Alpha Cat Managers which mitigated risk.
• Capital Modelling: Facilitated better informed decision making regarding underwriting strategies, pricing, and portfolio management while serving as executive sponsor of Capital Allocation and Risk Metrics project.
• Employee Engagement: Promoted employee engagement whilst fostering more inclusive workplace culture by sponsoring annual global underwriter’s offsite that galvanised underwriting team during periods of change and.
• Digital Transformation: Optimized capital allocation while serving as underwriting leader for Validus Capital Allocation and Pricing System which involved liaising between development and underwriting teams.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Empowered other members of executive leadership team to make well-informed, insight-driven decisions by ensuring underwriting needs and feedback were considered during establishment of KPIs.

Hamilton, Bermuda

• During my time as the Head of Financial & Specialty Lines, EVP, I was responsible for shaping the strategy, managing the underwriting process, and fostering innovation across our Financial & Specialty Lines. I worked.
• Revenue Growth: Located and capitalised on emerging market opportunities while also developing bespoke insurance solutions which led to sustained growth of Financial & Specialty Lines portfolio.
• Leadership Development: Strengthened succession plan while also positioning Financial & Specialty Lines team for success by coaching staff, mentoring individuals, and developing future leaders.
• Risk Management: Spearheaded and completed several enterprise-level projects that improved approaches towards accumulations and pricing for terrorism, cyber, and credit business.

Hamilton, Bermuda

• In this role, I directed all underwriting activities for our financial lines of insurance that grew to a complimentary pillar of our overall portfolio. I set and enforced underwriting guidelines and coordinated with.
• Business Operations: Established new Financial Lines business unit from scratch which involved creating new processes, recruiting team, and developing strategic plan that led to producing significant profit.
• Business Development: Cultivated and expanded robust book of business by identifying untapped market opportunities, developing tailored financial lines products, and fostering relationships with clients and brokers

Hamilton, Bermuda

• As the SVP for Specialty & Marine, I created underwriting and risk management strategies, supported client acquisition and retention, and delivered customised risk solutions that were tailored to unique business.
• Business Solutions: Maintained exceptional client retention rate whilst generating meaningful profit by providing customised risk management solutions that exceeded internal as well as industry benchmarks.

Hamilton, Bermuda

• Earlier in my career, I developed and continuously improved risk assessment strategies that balanced our risk profile against the market demands on our portfolio. The role involved negotiating major reinsurance.
• Reinsurance Product Portfolio: Made critical contributions during product development as well as launch of new specialty reinsurance products that significantly expanded portfolio and led to growth.
• Global Monitoring: Championed establishment of Global Grid methodology to monitor terrorism accumulations, pricing, and peer-to-peer analyses which improved pricing accuracy while also providing more holistic view of.

Bermuda

Greenwich, Connecticut

Executive Education, Leadership Essentials

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Financial Risk Management

Bachelos Of Science, Biomedical/Medical Engineering

Activities and Societies: President of Gamma Iota Sigma Risk Management Organization