Speakers...
John P. Doucette
Chief Underwriting Officer, Everest Re Group Ltd.
John P. Doucette has been the Chief Underwriting Officer of Everest Re Group since June of 2011. Prior to this, he was head of Enterprise Risk Management for the Group. He joined the Company in 2008 as Executive Vice President.
Prior to Everest, Mr. Doucette worked at Max Re Capital Ltd. from 2000 to 2008, as President and Chief Underwriting Officer of the P&C Reinsurance division, where he was responsible for new products and geographic expansion. Prior to that, he was an Associate Director at Swiss Re New Markets between 1997 and 2000, a division of Swiss Reinsurance Company, where he held various pricing, structuring and underwriting roles in connection with alternative risk transfer and structured products. He worked at Tillinghast as a consultant from 1989 to 1997.
Mr. Doucette graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics and Biometry from Cornell University. 
Bill Dubinsky
Head of Insurance-Linked Securities, Willis Capital Markets & Advisory
Michael Stahel is partner and portfolio manager of LGT Insurance-Linked Strategies and was key in LGT’s acquisition of Clariden Leu’s Insurance-Linked Investments boutique in Q1 2012.
In his role, Michael maintains the responsibility for the main investment strategy. He chairs the investment committee and develops investment ideas in close collaboration with the portfolio managers. Further, Michael maintains the relationships with key investors and represents the investment philosophy of the team.
Prior to the team’s transfer to LGT Capital Partners in June 2012, Michael served as head of the Insurance-Linked Investments department at Clariden Leu from 2006 until May 2012 performing the same role and building the current team. Before that, Michael spent eight years with Swiss Re in various positions in Zurich and London. Initially, he was a reinsurance risk underwriter within the alternative risk transfer unit “Swiss Re New Markets“ and then spent the last four years as a Vice President within the Retro and Syndication unit. In this position, Michael was involved in structuring insurancelinked securities and trading insurance risk derivatives on behalf of Swiss Re’s proprietary book.
Michael holds a BA in Economics from the Zurich University of Applied Science and an MBA in Corporate Finance from Rochester University (New York). Michael is very active in further developing the insurance-linked investments industry; he has published numerous articles and in 2006 (in his role as senior structurer at Swiss Re) filed for a patent for an insurance-linked securitisation of catastrophic automobile insurance events.
Philipp Kusche
Partner and Global Head of ILS & Capital Solutions, TigerRisk Partners
Philipp KuschePhilipp Kusche joined TigerRisk Partners in April 2016 as Partner and Global Head of Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) and Capital Solutions.
Philipp comes from Swiss Re Capital Markets in New York where he most recently was the Head of their ILS Structuring and Origination team covering Insurance Companies, Hedge Funds, Governmental Entities, and Corporate Clients in the U.S., Latin America, and Asia. He joined Swiss Re Capital Markets in New York in 2006 and was responsible for and instrumental in creating and executing billions of dollars worth of CAT bonds, sidecars, contingent capital structures, and other alternative capital products for clients globally, while maintaining a strong focus on product development. As part of such activities, he developed relationships with many key ILS and other institutional investors and maintained a close dialogue with other stakeholders in the ILS space. In addition to such sell-side activities, he structured, priced, and executed a large number of CAT derivatives, mainly on a parametric basis, providing protection to a variety of clients. Philipp joined Swiss Re in 2002, and was initially based at its headquarters in Zurich as a management trainee. Working mainly in the Chief Underwriting Office, he quickly advanced into the global Energy Practice as a property underwriter in London and Zurich.
He graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering from the Bauhaus University in Germany and a Masters Degree in Civil Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute in Zurich (ETH). His Masters Thesis, supported by Credit Suisse, was on public-private partnerships and their potential in Switzerland.
Michael A. Stahel
Partner and and Portfolio Manager, Insurance-Linked Strategies
Michael Stahel is partner and portfolio manager of LGT Insurance-Linked Strategies and was key in LGT’s acquisition of Clariden Leu’s Insurance-Linked Investments boutique in Q1 2012. In his role, Michael maintains the responsibility for the main investment strategy. He chairs the investment committee and develops investment ideas in close collaboration with the portfolio managers. Further, Michael maintains the relationships with key investors and represents the investment philosophy of the team.
Prior to the team’s transfer to LGT Capital Partners in June 2012, Michael served as head of the Insurance-Linked Investments department at Clariden Leu from 2006 until May 2012 performing the same role and building the current team. Before that, Michael spent eight years with Swiss Re in various positions in Zurich and London. Initially, he was a reinsurance risk underwriter within the alternative risk transfer unit “Swiss Re New Markets“ and then spent the last four years as a Vice President within the Retro and Syndication unit. In this position, Michael was involved in structuring insurancelinked securities and trading insurance risk derivatives on behalf of Swiss Re’s proprietary book.
Michael holds a BA in Economics from the Zurich University of Applied Science and an MBA in Corporate Finance from Rochester University (New York). Michael is very active in further developing the insurance-linked investments industry; he has published numerous articles and in 2006 (in his role as senior structurer at Swiss Re) filed for a patent for an insurance-linked securitisation of catastrophic automobile insurance events.
Eveline Takken-Somers
Investment Director, PGGM
