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dcash@endurance.bmDavid Cash was appointed Chief Executive Officer in March 2010, having served as Endurance's Chief Underwriting Officer from December 2005 to February 2010. He was named President of Endurance's Bermuda operations in May 2008, a role he previously served in from December 2004 to December 2005. Mr. Cash joined the company at its inception in December 2001 as Endurance's Chief Actuary and Chief Risk Officer, a role he held through June 2005.
Mr. Cash joined Endurance from Centre Solutions Ltd. in Bermuda where he was a Vice President focused on structured finance and insurance programs. Mr. Cash was a member of the board of directors at Centre Life Finance, Centre Solution's senior settlement financing company. From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Cash was Vice President and Underwriter at Zurich Re Centre. Prior to Zurich Re, Mr. Cash served as a consultant actuary at Tillinghast/Towers Perrin in New York. Mr. Cash received a MSc. in Mathematics from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. Mr. Cash is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries and is a native of Bermuda.
wjewett@endurance.bmWilliam M. Jewett was appointed President of Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. in March 2010. Prior to that, Mr. Jewett served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Endurance Worldwide Reinsurance from February 2007 to February 2010. He began his career with Endurance in 2002 as Chief Underwriting Officer of Endurance Reinsurance Corporation of America.
Mr. Jewett came to Endurance from Converium Reinsurance (North America) where, as Chief Underwriter of Risk Strategies, he had responsibility for the underwriting, marketing, planning and overall management of Converium's non-traditional reinsurance business. While at Converium, Mr. Jewett also had responsibility for general casualty and workers' compensation treaty underwriting and was a member of the company's board of directors. Prior to Converium, Mr. Jewett was responsible for underwriting and marketing in the U.S. for Centre Reinsurance Company of New York. He started his career at Prudential Re, and spent eight years in management at NAC Re, where he served as Vice President and Manager of the Casualty Treaty department. Mr. Jewett holds an A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
mangelina@endurance.bmMichael Angelina joined Endurance as its Chief Actuary in June 2005. Mr. Angelina is an Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries. Mr. Angelina graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Mathematics, and began his actuarial career with CIGNA in the workers compensation and actuarial research units. Mr. Angelina then joined Tillinghast in 1988 where he participated in the development of Tillinghast's excess of loss pricing system and its Global Loss Distributions initiative, as well as numerous client assignments, with a focus on reinsurance companies. Mr. Angelina worked for one year for Reliance Reinsurance Corp. as a Vice President and Actuary prior to returning to Tillinghast in 2000. Mr. Angelina is the co-author of Tillinghast's industry-wide asbestos actuarial study and participated in the development of the 2003 FAIR Act (proposed Federal asbestos legislation).
jdelcol@endurance.bmJohn V. Del Col has been the General Counsel and Secretary of Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. since January 2003 and is also Executive Vice President, Acquisitions. From October 1999 until January 2003, Mr. Del Col served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Trenwick Group Ltd. and its predecessor company, Trenwick Group Inc., a property and casualty reinsurer. Mr. Del Col was Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Chartwell Re Corporation, a property and casualty reinsurer, from January 1998 until its merger with and into Trenwick Group Inc. in October 1999. From July 1994 until December 1997, Mr. Del Col was the Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Secretary at MeesPierson Holdings Inc., a Dutch merchant bank. From November 1991 until July 1994, Mr. Del Col was an associate in the law firm of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P. Prior thereto, Mr. Del Col was an associate in the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell.
Joan deLemps was named Endurance's Chief Underwriting Officer in March 2010, having served as Chief Casualty Officer for Endurance's Worldwide Reinsurance operation since February 2007.An accomplished underwriting executive with over 35 years of insurance and reinsurance experience, Ms. deLemps joined Endurance in May 2003 from Gerling Global Financial Products Inc. (GGFP) where she was the Senior Managing Director of Underwriting and a founding member of the Structured Reinsurance group. Prior to joining GGFP, Ms. deLemps was a Senior Vice President at Swiss Reinsurance where she held various underwriting and management positions in both the facultative and treaty operations, ultimately managing the underwriting activities of Atrium, Swiss Re's structured reinsurance operation. She began her career as a casualty insurance underwriter at Aetna Casualty & Surety.
ckalaydjian@endurance.bmCatherine A. Kalaydjian was named the Chief Claims Officer of Endurance as of March 2007. She joined Endurance in August 2003 as Head of Claims for the U.S. reinsurance operations.
Ms. Kalaydjian joined Endurance from QBE the Americas, where she was the Senior Vice President, Head of Claims for both the North and South America operations. QBE underwrote a diverse mix of Property, Casualty, and Health business on a reinsurance, direct and excess and surplus basis. Prior to joining QBE in 1997, Ms. Kalaydjian spent ten years as the senior claims officer and a Director of Resolute Management Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. She started her primary career with GAB Business Services and was the Excess Surplus Lines Claim Manager at Integrity Insurance Company.
Ms. Kalaydjian is very active in leadership roles in industry organizations and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Excess/Surplus Lines Claims Association as the Immediate Past President and is a Past President and Advisor Emeritus of APIW (Association of Professional Insurance Women). Ms. Kalaydjian holds a B.A. cum laude, in Marketing Management from Siena College, Loudonville, NY.
mmcguire@endurance.bmMichael J. McGuire has been Chief Financial Officer since January 2006. Mr. McGuire joined Endurance in 2003 to lead its external reporting, treasury and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance initiatives. Mr. McGuire came to Endurance from Deloitte & Touche LLP where he spent over nine years working in a variety of audit and advisory roles in the United States, Bermuda and Europe. In his most recent role at Deloitte & Touche, Mr. McGuire served as a senior manager in their merger and acquisition advisory practice, providing transaction accounting, structuring and due diligence services to private equity and strategic investors. Mr. McGuire is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
jloconnor@enduranceservices.comJohn L. O'Connor was appointed Endurance's Chief Administrative Officer in September 2011, having served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Endurance Services Limited since joining the company in October 2004. Mr. O'Connor came to Endurance with nearly 20 years of consulting and public accounting experience, where he was responsible for advising insurance and reinsurance companies on underwriting, claims, policy management and other areas. A graduate of Fairfield University (BS, Accounting), Mr. O'Connor is a Certified Public Accountant and a Fellow of the Life Management Institute.
msilverstein@enduranceservices.comMr. Silverstein has been Chief Investment Officer of Endurance Services Limited since joining the company in August of 2005. With 26 years of professional experience in investments, prior to joining Endurance Mr. Silverstein was an Executive Vice President at XL Investment Management (USA), LLC. In this capacity, he led the Structured and Spread Asset Group and was on the Investment Committee. Mr. Silverstein has focused on fixed income investments throughout his career, which began in 1985 in Fixed Income Research with Credit Suisse First Boston. In 1991, Mr. Silverstein joined BEA Associates, an investment management firm which was later acquired by Credit Suisse Asset Management, where Mr. Silverstein became Managing Director, Fixed Income Portfolio Manager. His responsibilities included managing U.S. and global core fixed income portfolios. Mr. Silverstein holds a B.S. in Urban Studies from Cornell University and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Chicago. Mr. Silverstein is currently a member of the Education Committee of the Greenwich Roundtable and a contributor to Best Practices in Alternative Investing: Portfolio Construction (2009).