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Insurance Executive and Financial Economist
A distinguished Insurance Executive and Financial Economist with a rare synthesis of
leadership experience across Fortune 500 corporations, central banking, and academia.
Proven expert in bridging the gap between theoretical economic modeling and
large-scale commercial execution within federal and private sector institutions.
Executive Profile
Emerging Tech & Economic Leadership: Key influential leader who integrates generative AI and advanced econometrics into the corporate framework to create measurable value and competitive advantages.
Transformational Change Agent: Expert in driving operational excellence within the insurance sector, with a proven track record of influencing stakeholders and managing complex restructurings in high-pressure landscapes.
Global Strategic Architect: Leverages a career-long curiosity and rigorous modeling expertise to define expansion strategies that have successfully anchored historic, record-breaking transactions and global business launches.
Executive Core Competencies
Strategic Leadership: Thought Leadership | Strategy Development & Execution | Change Management | Cross-functional Collaboration
Economic & Financial Expertise: Economic & Finance Theory | AI Adoption | Financial Risk Management | Federal Reserve Monetary Policy | Econometric Modeling
Insurance Domain Mastery: Property & Casualty | Life, Health, & Disability | Legacy & Retroactive Reinsurance | Regulatory Compliance
Operational Resilience: Managing Through Adversity & Resistance | Workflow Redesign | Entrepreneurial Scaling | Stakeholder Influence
Professional Experience
General Reinsurance Corporation (Gen Re), Stamford, CT, 2020 - present
Senior Advisor (March 2026-present)
Partner directly with the Executive Chairman to translate high-level vision into actionable roadmaps.
Chief Technology Officer (2020-March 2026)
Led IT department restructuring to establish a customer-centric, high-velocity organization; transformed the culture into a lean, responsive unit that empowers engineers and prioritizes visionary leadership.
Orchestrated AI adoption by integrating comprehensive change management strategies and optimizing cross-functional workflows to drive operational efficiency.
Chaired the Responsible AI Committee, spearheading internal education initiatives and representing the firm as a keynote speaker at premier industry events.
Managed technological transitions utilizing real-options valuation to ensure strategic flexibility, continuous learning, and reversible decision-making in volatile markets.
Architected a global cloud data platform that successfully navigated complex data localization and privacy regulations while pioneering a self-service analytics model for global teams.
Served as a primary Thought Leader on emerging technologies—including AI, cybersecurity, and quantum computing—through high-profile panels and executive roundtables.
Delivered critical macroeconomic insights on post-COVID inflation trajectories using advanced econometric modeling to inform global strategic planning.
Cultivated an inclusive culture of intellectual discourse, prioritizing transparency and diversity of thought to accelerate innovation and team engagement.
American International Group (AIG), New York, NY, 2012 - 2020
Head of Property & Casualty Deals – Fortitude Re (2018 - 2020)
Spearheaded corporate development initiatives across products and geographies, establishing the foundational framework for domestic launches and international expansion.
Led the Property & Casualty Deal Team in identifying and capturing market opportunities, structuring the new subsidiary’s business approach to successfully target and close high-value reinsurance contracts.
Partnered with capital modeling and investment teams to architect a proprietary pricing engine from the ground up, aligning technical precision with commercial goals.
Upskilled the organization through intensive training on the conceptualization and pricing of complex retroactive reinsurance structures, utilizing advanced asset pricing theory.
Championed organizational resilience by maintaining a culture of positive, forward-thinking leadership during periods of volatility, significantly boosting team morale and performance.
Head of P&C Inforce Management, General Insurance and Legacy (2017 - 2018)
Capitalized on the successful execution of the AIG–Berkshire Hathaway transaction to expand leadership remit, overseeing both General Insurance and Legacy portfolios.
Structured and negotiated a high-value retroactive reinsurance solution for a $3B portfolio of complex, long-dated risks; led an actuarial team through the full lifecycle from nonbinding indications and senior management approval to the successful completion of due diligence.
Engineered a pioneering statistical model to quantify structural drivers of U.S. jury verdicts; utilized these insights to overhaul commercial auto risk appetite and underwriting guidelines, significantly mitigating loss exposure across volatile jurisdictions.
Chaired the AIG Global Benefits Network (GBN), driving a comprehensive operational transformation that included the strategic buyout of minority shareholders to consolidate control.
Head of P&C Inforce Management, Legacy (2016 - 2017)
Served as Lead Architect and Chief Negotiator for the AIG–Berkshire Hathaway Adverse Development Cover, widely recognized as the largest and most complex reinsurance transaction in industry history.
Directed a high-performance quantitative actuarial team to evaluate $35B in long-tail commercial liabilities; successfully justified technical pricing and strategic rationale to secure a landmark $10B nonbinding indication.
Orchestrated a comprehensive nine-month transaction roadmap, providing cross-functional leadership across Actuarial, Claims, Finance, Investments, Legal, and Risk to ensure seamless structural alignment.
Executed the definitive agreement in early 2017, moving from CEO approval to closing within days, offloading high-severity, long-dated liabilities and providing the organization with long-term balance sheet stability and earnings protection.
Head of Group Benefits and Global Disability Pricing Standards and Strategy (2015 - 2016)
Appointed Head of Group Benefits to lead a full P&L turnaround, restoring profitability through strategic divestitures, lean operations, and underwriting discipline.
Engineered a structural overhaul of the Group Benefits business, achieving significant operational cost reductions while maintaining service continuity and market presence.
Orchestrated a complex divestiture strategy, negotiating and executing a series of business sales and quota-share reinsurance agreements to optimize the portfolio and free up capital.
Developed and executed a high-stakes "exit solution" for a regulatory-sensitive health insurance line, ensuring full compliance while mitigating reputational and financial risk.
Institutionalized underwriting discipline and established rigorous service-level agreements (SLAs), transforming a legacy business unit into a streamlined, profit-focused organization.
Head of Actuarial Econometrics and Innovative Actuarial Models (2014 - 2015)
Directed a multidisciplinary team of actuaries, claims executives, and data scientists to architect and deploy advanced underwriting and claims strategies, resulting in an estimated $500M loss mitigation benefit.
Engineered a transformative Workers’ Compensation claims settlement strategy rooted in the economic theory of decision-making; successfully integrated machine learning to identify high-risk claims and establish optimal settlement targets.
Championed data-driven cultural change by demonstrating the statistical power and ROI of predictive modeling to executive stakeholders, securing buy-in for large-scale algorithmic integration.
Architected a proprietary econometric multi-state model to identify profitable underwriting "alpha" in Workers’ Compensation; quantified redundancies and deficiencies in bureau loss cost trends to drive a high-margin business expansion in a key U.S. jurisdiction.
Optimized portfolio performance by bridging the gap between raw data science and clinical claims execution, ensuring technical insights translated directly into lowered combined ratios.
Director Casualty Risk (2012 - 2014)
Architected the Federal Reserve Stress Test model for the Property & Casualty sector, establishing the framework for systemic risk oversight and capital adequacy under extreme economic scenarios.
Directed a specialized team of risk modelers to identify, isolate, and quantify critical risk drivers for long-dated, complex liabilities; ensured the model's integrity across a wide range of adverse macroeconomic projections.
Leveraged prior agency experience to bridge the gap between regulatory expectations and internal risk management, fostering a transparent dialogue with federal overseers.
Engineered a robust stress-testing methodology that translated hypothetical economic shocks—such as interest rate volatility and inflationary spikes—into quantifiable impacts on the P&C balance sheet.
Enhanced organizational capital resilience by providing executive leadership with the analytical tools necessary to evaluate risk appetite and solvency buffers in a highly regulated environment.
Board Memberships
Gen Re AG, Germany, September 24, 2020 to present
Eaglestone Reinsurance Corporation, USA, February 9, 2016 - March 5, 2019
Chairman, AIG Global Benefits Network, Belgium, August 1, 2015 - October 1, 2018
Additional Professional Experience
Director and Senior Economist, National Council on Compensation Insurance
Senior Economist, National Council on Compensation Insurance
Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Education
Post-doc (Dr. habil.) Finance – University of Lüneburg, Germany
Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) Economics – University of Lüneburg, Germany
Dipl.-Volkswirt (M.A. Economics equivalent) – University of Göttingen, Germany
Vordiplom (B.A. Economics equivalent) – University of Heidelberg, Germany
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor of Finance – Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Extraordinary Professor of Finance – University of Lüneburg, Germany
Visiting Professor of Finance – Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
Guest Lecturer – CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic
Guest Lecturer – University of Osnabrück, Germany
Senior Research Fellow – The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Post-doc Scholar – Free University of Berlin and Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Visiting Scholar – The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor of Financial Services – University of Vienna, Austria
Selected Journal Articles
“Capital, Labor, and the Firm: A Study of German Codetermination,” with Gary Gorton, Journal of the European Economic Association 2 (2004), 863-905
“Pricing and Dividend Policies in Open Credit Unions,” with Bill Emmons, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 158 (2002), 234-255
“Universal Banking and the Performance of German Firms,” with Gary Gorton, Journal of Financial Economics 58 (2000), 29‑80
“Corporate Governance, Ownership Dispersion, and Efficiency: Empirical Evidence from Austrian Cooperative Banking,” with Gary Gorton, Journal of Corporate Finance 5 (1999), 119-140
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review
“Macroeconomic News and Real Interest Rates,” with Kevin Kliesen, 88(2) (2006), 133-144
“Stock Return and Interest Rate Risk at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,” 87(1) (2005), 35-48
“Monetary Policy Actions, Macroeconomic Data Releases, and Inflation Expectations,” with Kevin Kliesen, 86(3) (2004), 9-22
“Asset Mispricing, Arbitrage, and Volatility,” with Bill Emmons, 84(6) (2002), 19-28
“Voting Rights, Private Benefits, and Takeovers,” 84(1) (2002), 35-46
“Equity Financing of the Entrepreneurial Firm,” 83(6) (2001), 15-27
“Membership Structure, Competition and Occupational Credit Union Deposit Rates,” with Bill Emmons, 83(1) (2001), 41-50
“Bank Competition and Concentration: Do Credit Unions Matter?”, with Bill Emmons, 82(3) (2000), 29-42
“The Asian Crisis and the Exposure of Large US Firms,” with Bill Emmons, 82(1) (2000), 15-34
“Credit Unions and the Common Bond,” with Bill Emmons, 81(5) (1999), 41-64
“Wages and Risk-Taking in Occupational Credit Unions: Theory and Evidence,” with Bill Emmons, 81(2) (1999),
13-31
“Universal Banking, Control Rights, and Corporate Finance in Germany,” with Bill Emmons, 80(4) (1998), 19-42
Selected Publications in Edited Volumes
“Mergers and Acquisitions in Germany: Social Setting and Regulatory Framework,” with Mark Wahrenburg, in: Jan Pieter Krahnen and Reinhard H. Schmidt (eds.), The German Financial System, Oxford (U.K.): Oxford University Press (2004), 261-287
Selected Actuarial Publications
“The Impact of Physician Fee Schedule Changes in Workers Compensation: Evidence From 31 States,” with Nathan Lord, National Council on Compensation Insurance, 2013
“Loss Cost Components and Industrial Structure,” Casualty Actuarial Society E-Forum, Spring 2013 (1), 1-20
“The Impact of Physician Fee Schedule Introductions in Workers Compensation: An Event Study,” with Nathan Lord, Casualty Actuarial Society E-Forum, Spring 2013 (1), 1-36
“The Workers Compensation Tails,” Casualty Actuarial Society Variance 6(1) (2012), 48-77
“Indemnity Benefit Duration, Maximum Weekly Benefits, and Claim Attributes,” Casualty Actuarial Society
E-Forum, Winter 2011 (2), 1-35
“Workplace Injuries and Job Flows,” Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN), 2009