Rodolphe Herve Email & Phone Number

La Jolla, Ca, Us

Paris, Fr

Paris, Fr

Paris, Fr

New York, Ny, Us

• Drove creation of new 5-year strategy for Specialty & Commercial insurance Business Unit• Led team in charge of implementation of new IT and Operations platform for Commercial Insurance• Managed Specialty & Commercial Insurance processing teams onshore and offshore

New York, Ny, Us

• Founding member of Leadership Team that built a $1B Specialty Insurance unit in 5 years 2014-2018• Managed creation and implementation of straight-through IT and operations platform for Specialty business units• Led launch of new business units and product lines including Management Liability & Professional Lines, and Surety (2014), Inland Marine (2015), Healthcare (2016)• Led team responsible for due diligence and governance process for selection and onboarding of Program Partners (Managing General Underwriters)• Led creation of streamlined processing workflows for Specialty North America, and transfers of processes to captive offshore center in the Philippines• Launched and managed Specialty processing teams onshore and offshore

New York, Ny, Us

• Led divestiture of agency businesses• Led turnaround of Commercial Trucking agency driving improvements in loss performance, premium retention, and new business production improvements, resulting in $12M EBITDA improvement over 2 years• Helped produce QBE’s acquisition framework and toolbox as a member of Global M&A team.• Assisted onboarding and launch of new Specialty insurance product lines including Management Liability & Professional Lines (D&O, E&O, EPLI, Fiduciary) and Surety.

New York, Ny, Us

Merger & AcquisitionsOffice of the CEO• Chief of Staff for Chief Strategy & Technology Officer.• Assisted due diligence of $1B premium acquisition and subsequent merger integration.• Managed integration effort following acquisition of RenRe’s insurance assets in Nov 2010.• Designed strategy and goals for owned agencies division ($1.1B in premiums).

Jersey City, Nj, Us

• Led multi-division effort to consolidate number of credit card designs globally and optimize card manufacturing footprint, all to drive $10M in annual savings for major credit card issuer in 2011. • Ran daily operations with COO of $350M collection agency, including migrating to new software platform and driving $25M in additional annual profit from various cost-cutting measures.

Boston, Ma, Us

• Led teams of 2-4 direct reports on various client-facing projects, directly reporting to senior managers or partners.•Conducted ten private equity due diligence engagements in radio/media, medical supplies, jewelry retail, IT reselling and servicing, banking software, and food manufacturing industries. For leading US Financial services clients:•Customer segmentation: Produced new customer segmentation and refocused management team on 4 key cardmember segments to profitably increase share.• Cost-savings: Identified ways to reduce advertising spend by 30% with no impact on key cardmember segments.• Online spend strategy: Conducted deep analysis of online customer behaviors and needs to help client increase share of US online spend.• Developed a new retail branch expansion strategy, resulting in major changes in the bank’s geographic focus.

•Performed due diligence for new investments in Netezza (NYSE Arca: NZ), Bitfone (sold to HP), Openet, and follow-on investments in WaterCove Networks (sold to Alcatel), Danger (sold to Microsoft) and Bytemobile. Assessed growth potential and investment risks, reviewed deal structures, term sheets and capitalization.•Managed deal flow and screened business plans for investment opportunities worthy of further investigation.•Developed relationships with key Orange and France Telecom R&D centers to promote our portfolio companies within the organization and focus the fund’s investment strategy.•Represented Orange Ventures at entrepreneurship conferences and VC networking events in France and the UK, increasing the visibility of our fund within the wireless technology community and sourcing potential deals.•Monitored wireless venture capital investments worldwide and presented quarterly trends to the fund’s partners.

New York, Ny, Us

Junior Associate – Equity Research, European Wireline Telecom• Initiated coverage and produced all research and financial forecasts on France Telecom, helping secure 10% of France Telecom’s dealings during our first year of coverage. • Managed portfolio of 10 Morgan Stanley institutional clients in France and Canada.

Education record

Mba, Dual Major In Strategic Management And Marketing & Operations Management

Masters, Business, Finance

Education record