Leadership

Senior practitioners. Direct accountability.

The leadership team is composed of underwriters, actuaries, and operators with multi-decade specialty reinsurance careers across London, Bermuda, Continental Europe, and the United States.

Office of the CEO

Kyle portrait

Kyle

Shostak

President

The leadership team meets weekly on portfolio composition, monthly on capacity and capital, and quarterly on cycle management and governance. Senior accountability for every line of business is named, documented, and unchanged through the reporting cycle.

Underwriting & operations

The senior team.

  • Margaret Holloway

    Chief Executive Officer

    Three decades of specialty reinsurance leadership across London, Bermuda, and New York markets, with a focus on portfolio construction and capital partner alignment.

  • Daniel Reyes

    Chief Underwriting Officer

    Career underwriter spanning property catastrophe, energy, and structured treaty business. Previously led specialty portfolios for a top-five global reinsurer.

  • Aiko Tanaka

    Head of Property & Energy

    Lead underwriter for natural catastrophe-exposed property and downstream energy. Engineering background; deep relationships with Asia-Pacific cedants.

  • James Okafor

    Head of Treaty

    Structured treaty specialist with experience across casualty, motor, and multi-line programmes. Focused on multi-year, capital-efficient placements.

  • Helena Brandt

    Head of Specialty & Facultative

    Marine, aviation, and political risk underwriting leader. Builds bespoke facultative capacity for complex single-risk submissions.

  • Christopher Bell

    Chief Financial Officer

    Former group CFO of a Lloyd’s carrier. Oversees capital management, investor reporting, and financial governance across the platform.

  • Sofia Marchetti

    Chief Risk Officer

    Actuary by training. Leads enterprise risk, exposure management, and the model governance committee. Member of the underwriting authority panel.

  • Theodore Hollis

    General Counsel

    Reinsurance regulatory and contracts counsel. Manages cross-border licensing, treaty documentation, and compliance across operating jurisdictions.

Reach the underwriting team directly.

Each class lead is contactable through the channels listed on our contact page. Senior team members handle substantive submissions and partnership conversations.