► Andre Perez is a successful entrepreneur and respected leader with over 30 years of experience in the global (re)insurance industry. He is the founder and Chairman of Horseshoe, a leading financial market services provider dedicated to both Insurance-Linked Securities (“ILS”) and the alternative investment fund markets. Under Perez’s stewardship, Horseshoe grew to become the largest ILS service provider in the world, and it was recently acquired by Artex Risk Solutions (Holdings) Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Arthur J. Gallagher. In his role as the Chairman of Horseshoe, he is responsible for strategic business opportunities as well as mergers & acquisitions. Prior to founding Horseshoe, Andre held executive and consulting roles working for global enterprises such as Alea, KPMG, Coopers & Lybrand Canada and Zurich Insurance. He is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS) and obtained his BSc. Mathematics from the University of Montreal in Canada.

► Fiona Robertson is currently editor in chief of Trading Risk, and global reinsurance editor for Insider Publishing. She joined Trading Risk and Insurance Insider in mid 2010, taking on the role of Trading Risk editor in 2012. Before moving to the UK, she spent several years working at the National Business Review in her native New Zealand, covering collapsing finance companies throughout the 2008 financial crisis.

► John “Jay” Nichols served as the CEO of the reinsurance operations of Axis Capital from April 2012 to April 2017. At Axis, he was instrumental in creating a team to launch Harrington Reinsurance. Jay was previously president of RenaissanceRe Ventures. After joining the reinsurer in 1995, he was responsible for establishing DaVinci Reinsurance, as well as several other ventures. Jay serves on several boards, including those of Baldwin & Lyons and National General Holdings.

► Julia Henderson started her career in analytics for a small market research firm in Boston. She moved to Bermuda in 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 several 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.

► Over the past 32 year, Jutta Kath has held executive positions in the insurance and reinsurance industry in companies like HDI, Hannover Re, Converium, Winterthur Insurance, Zurich Insurance Group and Allianz. Her responsibilities span from claims to underwriting but also included the placement of reinsurance. Before founding her own consulting and coaching firm in late 2020, she was part of the ILS team at Schroder Secquaero. Since 2016, she has held NED positions at Uniqa Insurance Group and Uniqa Re. She also acts as the Chair of the Swiss branch of the Insurance Supper Club (ISC), a women’s’ network in the insurance industry. She is a fully qualified German lawyer, holds a coaching degree in neurodynamic self-management and is a speaker industry conferences..