About

Kathleen Faries

Kathleen Faries’s career spans corporate benefits, captives, facultative insurance, reinsurance, and ILS. The past 10 years of her 30-year career have been focused on taking a leading role at Tokio Millennium Re Bermuda (TMR) and in the Bermuda reinsurance market. 

The power of leveraging technology to enable transformation and growth is key to Kathleen’s most recent advisory position with ChainThat, a UK-based blockchain company.   Kathleen is heading a group of executives in Bermuda that is working with ChainThat to determine whether ChainThat’s distributed ledger technology-based platform (RICAP) can be used by the insurance and reinsurance industry to enable a more efficient way of transacting business, with Bermuda leading the way on global data standards and building a truly digital marketplace. 

Kathleen served as CEO of Tokio Solution Management from 2012-16 and head of TMR’s Bermuda branch from 2016-19, where she spearheaded the expansion of TMR’s capital markets strategy, launching Tokio Solution and Shima Re in 2012. She was instrumental in building TMR’s reputation as a leader in the ILS arena and driving their innovative approach to the ILS market. Kathleen is also a founding member and chair of ILS Bermuda Ltd, which launched the ILS Bermuda Convergence event in 2012 – a leading ILS networking event held annually in Bermuda. She sits on the board of the Bermuda Insurance Institute (BII) and is a founding director of WeSpeak Bermuda.    

Kathleen received the BII’s Industry Leader of the Year award in 2015 and was named one of Insurance Day’s 2015 Power 50 Top Influencers in Reinsurance, where she was recognised for promoting innovation and for her bold approach to transforming the industry.  

Julia Henderson

Julia Henderson started her career in analytics for a small market research firm in Boston. She moved to Bermuda 2003 and began working in RenaissanceRe’s ventures unit before moving into underwriting. She took a sabbatical to earn an MBA in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Wharton, she worked with Pine Brook Road Partners on a number of their insurance related investments.

After graduating, Julia worked as a consultant at Nephila Capital, advising on trading strategies. She then moved to PSQR, a start-up macroeconomics hedge fund founded by Paolo Pellegrini (who led Paulson & Co to their 2008 housing short win). In 2010, Julia joined Partner Re as an underwriter, and was later promoted to Vice President and Senior Underwriter, leading their worldwide ILS and worldwide retrocession portfolios.

In 2013, Julia joined Brit Insurance, opening their Bermuda office as Senior Vice President responsible for building and managing Brit Bermuda's property treaty portfolio; Julia was also the founding executive director of Sussex Capital, Brit’s first open market third party capital fund. In 2018, she joined Lutece Investment Management as Chief Underwriting Officer. Lutece was acquired by Peak Re in April 2020 renamed Peak Capital. She recently joined the Board of Stable, an insurtech company focused on solving price volatility in the $5 trillion illiquid food commodity industry.