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Miami, Fl, Us

Miami, Florida, United States

Global Head of Agriculture for Validus Reinsurance, overseeing reinsurance portfolio of North America, South America, Europe and Asia. • Integrated portfolio analytics with regional models to create a balanced and right-sized portfolio. • Instituted hedging programs for market-based livestock insurance products written through the US Federal Crop Insurance Program.• Formed partnerships to integrate big-data analytics and proprietary modeling into a hedging program.

Hamilton, Bermuda

Head of agricultural reinsurance for Axis Capital. • Underwrote a global portfolio—US, Canada, China, India, Europe and Latin America. • Expanded gross premium written from $15m to over $200m. • Cultivated and managed 3rd party partnerships for sharing risk and resources. • Developed industry models for US MPCI, US Crop Hail, China and India as well as bespoke regional models. • Developed tools for portfolio optimization, accumulation, standalone and marginal treaty pricing, deal ranking, and portfolio RoRAC sensitivity analysis.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Analyzed and advised on agricultural reinsurance programs for Syndicate 1458. • Expanded into new agricultural reinsurance markets and products. • Innovated models to evaluate agricultural insurance programs worldwide, most notably in the US, Brazil, Canada, China, and India. • Supported product development and rating for Agro National, a subsidiary of RenRe.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Director of crop modeling for Collins, the main agricultural reinsurance broker in the US. • Engineered models to account for market conditions and evaluate industry risk levels. • Created an integrated crop model to analyze US and Canadian programs (MPCI and crop hail) as a combined reinsurance portfolio. • Expanded consulting services to include portfolio analysis for reinsurers, governmental ceding strategy, price risk management, and insurance product development. • Projects included Exceedence Probability analysis for US, Canadian, European and South American agricultural insurance programs, and feasibility analysis for revenue product development.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Provided risk management consulting to financial institutions, insurance and reinsurance companies, and government agencies. • Designed, rated and maintained Livestock Risk Protection (LRP), the central market-based program offered by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. LRP industry premium was $650m in 2023, approaching $1b in 2024.International projects in Argentina (World Bank, Ministry of Agriculture and AgriRisk Insurance Services), Brazil (PartnerRe and the Porto Seguro Insurance Company), and Puerto Rico (Corporacion De Seguros Agricolas). Domestic projects included the Carbon Credit Generation (CCG) program (Chicago Climate Exchange), price insurance feasibility studies (Commodity Risk Management Group, World Bank), and yield index program for agribusinesses (John Deere).

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Innovative group transferring systemic and non-traditional risks to the capital markets.• Analyzed reinsurance contracts to evaluate the expected returns of treaties and portfolio impact. • Modeled revenue products, new to the US crop insurance program, isolating price and yield risk. • Assessed reinsurance cash flows due to changes in book of business and commodity market fluctuations.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Agricultural Economics

Researched impact of Federal Crop Insurance and Disaster Assistance programs on field crop production in the Great Plains. The data.

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics