Steve Britton
Managing Director, Global ILS Management, Aon Insurance Managers

Steve is Managing Director, Global ILS Management, of Aon Captive & Insurance Management (ACIM). Based in Bermuda, Steve is responsible for overseeing Aon’s global ILS insurance management operations which provide full insurance management and advisory services for ILS investor and cedant sponsored rated and collateralized commercial (re)insurers, catastrophe bond and sidecar SPIs and private collateralized reinsurance vehicles, and for Aon’s White Rock group of transformer companies located in Bermuda, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Malta, Vermont and Washington D.C.

Steve has more than 25 years of experience as a capital markets professional, ILS investment banker, insurance underwriter and reinsurance broker, with previous assignments in Los Angeles, London, New York and Bermuda. Steve gained senior-level ILS and offshore insurance management experience as Senior Vice President and Head of Cayman Islands office for the Horseshoe Group, as Head of ILS at Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller, as SVP at Willis Capital Markets, and as Head of ILS and collateralized reinsurance at U.S. RE Securities. Other prior appointments include start-up financial guaranty reinsurance company Longtail Re, Managing Director at ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. and SVP at Aon Capital Markets and Special Risk Services (SRS).

Steve holds a B.A. in Economics from Brigham Young University and an M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from the University of California-Davis. During his career, Steve was formerly licensed as a FINRA Series 7 and 63 securities representative and as a property and casualty insurance broker. Steve served previously on the Executive Committee of the Insurance Managers Association of Cayman (IMAC) where he was also Chairman of IMAC’s Marketing Committee.

Dan Brookman

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Michael Millette Managing Partner
Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd.

Michael Millette is a Founder and Managing Partner of Hudson Structured, an alternative asset manager for reinsurance and transportation linked assets based in Connecticut and Bermuda.

Mr. Millette was at Goldman Sachs from 1994 to 2015. He was elected a Partner in 2006 and held a number of positions over the course of a 21-year career at the firm. Most recently, Mr. Millette was the Global Head of Structured Finance, Co-Head of the Structured Finance Capital Committee, and President of the Goldman Sachs Mortgage Corporation. Mr. Millette was the founding team member of both the Re/insurance structured finance and principal businesses. He was a team leader or key team member for over 150 transactions in the sector. He led distribution for the first 144A catastrophe bond in 1996. He also led teams that developed Goldman’s current businesses in Transport Finance, Intellectual Property Structured Finance, Private Placements and Project Finance, and spearheaded the development of the Principal Funding business in investment banking. He led the Structured Finance Capital Committee and sector teams in the rebuilding of the GS mortgage and consumer finance businesses following the financial crisis. He was a Member of the Bank Capital Committee, as well as the Client & Business Standards Committee for Investment Banking.

Mr. Millette began his career as an Analyst at Citibank and also previously worked as a Portfolio Manager at John Hancock Financial.

He graduated from Cornell University with a BA in History, Cum Laude, and also holds a Masters in Finance from Boston College, Carroll Graduate School of Management. Mr. Millette became a CFA in 1994.

Maria Rapin,
Co-CEO,
Nephila Climate 

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Dirk Schmelzer

Partner / Member of the Executive Board / Senior Portfolio Manager

Dirk Schmelzer joined Plenum Investments in 2010 as senior portfolio manager for insurance-linked securities (ILS). Since 2005 he led the insurance-linked securities team at Falcon Private Bank (formerly AIG Private Bank) and was the responsible portfolio manager for funds and asset management mandates in the ILS area. Dirk started his career at VZ VermögensZentrum, where he was deputy head of fund research and responsible for selecting and monitoring alternative investments. He graduated from Braunschweig Technical University in 2000 as an industrial engineer and is certified as a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and Hedge Fund Advisor (EBS/BAI).

Aurora Swithenbank is the Chief Financial Officer of Vantage Group Holdings Ltd. She joined Vantage in October of 2020 concurrent with its founding.

She previously spent 23 years at Goldman Sachs, where she was most recently a partner in the Investment Banking Division heading the insurance business within the Americas Financing Group. As part of her role, Aurora co-headed Goldman’s Insurance Structured Finance / ILS team from 2014 to 2020. 

Aurora is an honors graduate of Harvard University.