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Kay Reinhold
Head of VIG Group Treasury & Capital Management
Vienna Insurance
William Arrata
Asset Liability Manager
Banque de France
William Arrata is an Asset & Liability Manager at Banque de France’s Financial Directorate. He is in charge of devising optimal investment strategies, in EURO and currencies, for Banque de France non monetary policy investment portfolios. Before that, he worked at the Reserves Management Division, actively managing an AFS portfolio of bonds, money market securities and fixed income derivatives. He also started the Quantitative Easing Programme for Banque de France. He has been teaching for more than 10 years Quantitative Portfolio Management at ESSEC Business school’s Master in Finance in France, and he occasionally publishes on topics related to monetary policy in the euro area. He is an Associate Actuary and CFA Charterholder.
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Cristina Melenchon
Senior Content Producer
Clear Path Analysis
Drew Price
Head of Capital Reporting & Analytic
Swiss Re
Drew Price is the Head of Capital Reporting & Analytics at Swiss Re, where he oversees all aspects of capital reporting for the group. With over three decades of experience in the financial sector, Drew has led teams in developing and implementing advanced financial systems, improving control environments, and accounting for complex transactions. His recent work includes designing a comprehensive application for collecting and managing capital positions.
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Cristina Melenchon
Senior Content Producer
Clear Path Analysis
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Andrew Putwain
Managing Editor
Clear Path Analysis
Andrew Putwain is the Managing Editor of Clear Path Analysis’s two market website Insurance-Investor.com and FundOperator.com. He joined the company in early 2022, and prior to that was an oil market journalist for I.C.I.S, part of Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions Group, focusing on the Middle Eastern/North Africa and CIS regions. Other previous roles include Editor at Reactions, part of Euromoney, and on the editorial team at Axco Insurance Information Services. He has also had positions at NS Media, HennikGroup, The Institute of Civil Engineers Publishing and ESG Investor
Salman Shaikh
Director - Central Functions Strategy & Business Transformation
Pemberton Capital Advisors
Alain Courbebaisse
Chief Operations Officer, Investments
Aberdeen Investments
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Andrew Putwain
Managing Editor
Clear Path Analysis
Andrew Putwain is the Managing Editor of Clear Path Analysis’s two market website Insurance-Investor.com and FundOperator.com. He joined the company in early 2022, and prior to that was an oil market journalist for I.C.I.S, part of Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions Group, focusing on the Middle Eastern/North Africa and CIS regions. Other previous roles include Editor at Reactions, part of Euromoney, and on the editorial team at Axco Insurance Information Services. He has also had positions at NS Media, HennikGroup, The Institute of Civil Engineers Publishing and ESG Investor
Maria Long
Head of Operational Due Diligence and Risk Management Advisor
ORC
Maria's expertise includes implementing resilient investment programs, fund manager selection and the application of global best practice standards. She is also recognized as an ESG, investment governance and digital assets due diligence specialist.
Prior to her role as Research and Content Director at SBAI, where Maria lobbied global regulators on emerging regulation and was responsible for authoring a number of industry white papers, Maria has held senior positions with Man FRM, as both Head of Middle Office Accounting and as an Operational Due Diligence specialist. Other roles include Accounting Operations Manager at Northern Trust, as well as investment operations positions with Unigestion and Thames River Capital hedge funds, where she was responsible for trade execution, valuations and client reporting.
As a member of the SBAI's Working Groups on Digital Assets and Responsible Investment, Maria actively engages in shaping industry standards. Her academic background includes a first-class Bachelor’s degree in Natural Sciences (Astronomy and Cosmology). Maria is a frequent panellist and speaker at financial services forums, showcasing her thought leadership.
Sonia Alonso
Investment Operations and Compliance Manager
Convex
Sonia Alonso is a transformation-focused investment operations leader with over 15 years’ experience across insurance, asset management, and commercial banking. At Convex Insurance, she oversees a $6bn+ portfolio and leads strategic initiatives in data, compliance, and operational efficiency, having joined from RBC Global Asset Management (UK), where she served as Head of Investment Operations. Sonia is recognised for her innovative approach to operational excellence and her thought leadership in investment operations transformation.
She holds dual BAs in Business Administration and Management (Universidad de Burgos, Spain) and in Political Sciences (UNED, Spain). Sonia is also certified by CFA UK with the Impact Investment and Climate & Investing Certificates, holds the CFA Institute’s Certificate in Sustainable Investing, and the CISI Investment Operations Certificate (IOC), demonstrating her strong commitment to professional development in the investment operations field.
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Cristina Melenchon
Senior Content Producer
Clear Path Analysis
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Cristina Melenchon
Senior Content Producer
Clear Path Analysis
Natalia Roudakova
Head Of Back Office and Treasury
Allianz Belgium
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Cristina Melenchon
Senior Content Producer
Clear Path Analysis
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Cristina Melenchon
Senior Content Producer
Clear Path Analysis
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Andrew Putwain
Managing Editor
Clear Path Analysis
Andrew Putwain is the Managing Editor of Clear Path Analysis’s two market website Insurance-Investor.com and FundOperator.com. He joined the company in early 2022, and prior to that was an oil market journalist for I.C.I.S, part of Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions Group, focusing on the Middle Eastern/North Africa and CIS regions. Other previous roles include Editor at Reactions, part of Euromoney, and on the editorial team at Axco Insurance Information Services. He has also had positions at NS Media, HennikGroup, The Institute of Civil Engineers Publishing and ESG Investor
Alastair Whitfield
Investment and Treasury Management
IQUW
Matthew Moore
Chief Operations Manager
Lloyd’s Treasury and Investment Management
Moderator
Andrew Putwain
Managing Editor
Clear Path Analysis
Andrew Putwain is the Managing Editor of Clear Path Analysis’s two market website Insurance-Investor.com and FundOperator.com. He joined the company in early 2022, and prior to that was an oil market journalist for I.C.I.S, part of Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions Group, focusing on the Middle Eastern/North Africa and CIS regions. Other previous roles include Editor at Reactions, part of Euromoney, and on the editorial team at Axco Insurance Information Services. He has also had positions at NS Media, HennikGroup, The Institute of Civil Engineers Publishing and ESG Investor
Stuart Gunderson
Chief Operating Officer
Seilern Investment Management
Stuart is the Chief Operating Officer at Seilern. Prior to joining Seilern, Stuart Gunderson was Chief Operating Officer, Chief Compliance Officer and a Founding Partner of Kiltearn. Stuart started his career in 1997, working at firms including Deutsche Bank, HSBC Global Fund Services, Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management and Franklin Templeton Investments. He has vast experience in a number of operational and servicing roles and has strategically and successfully managed business change throughout his career by focussing on enhanced client service, reduction in risk and cost management. Stuart is qualified from the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investments (C.I.S.I).
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Andrew Putwain
Managing Editor
Clear Path Analysis
Andrew Putwain is the Managing Editor of Clear Path Analysis’s two market website Insurance-Investor.com and FundOperator.com. He joined the company in early 2022, and prior to that was an oil market journalist for I.C.I.S, part of Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions Group, focusing on the Middle Eastern/North Africa and CIS regions. Other previous roles include Editor at Reactions, part of Euromoney, and on the editorial team at Axco Insurance Information Services. He has also had positions at NS Media, HennikGroup, The Institute of Civil Engineers Publishing and ESG Investor
A morning roundtable led by four senior insurance asset management leaders from insurers, third party managers, and consultants, discussing their career journeys, the key steps they attribute to their continued development, and tips for continual development. All participants will receive a certificate afterwards towards continual professional development
Noel Hillmann, Chief Executive Officer, Clear Path Analysis
Noel Hillmann
Chief Executive Officer
Clear Path Analysis
Xavier Debrun, Member, European Fiscal Board
Xavier Debrun
Member
European Fiscal Board
Xavier Debrun heads the Economics and Research Department of the National Bank of Belgium and is a member of the European Fiscal Board. After obtaining a Ph.D. in international economics from the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Xavier spent most of his 20-year professional career in the Fiscal Affairs and Research Departments of the International Monetary Fund. He has regularly taught in academic institutions, including the University of Geneva and the Catholic University of Louvain. His research interests focus on international policy coordination, the economics of currency unions, and macro-fiscal issues, including debt sustainability assessments and the stabilizing role of fiscal policy. He led many technical cooperation missions for the IMF in relation to the design and operation of fiscal policy rules, budgetary forecasting, and the introduction of independent fiscal institutions.
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Markus Hummel
Chief Risk Officer
Munich Re
Markus Hummel is the Chief Risk Officer of Munich Re Group since 2020. He started his career in the banking industry where he supported the trading desk via quantitative analyses. After joining Munich Re, he worked on the elaboration of the ALM process and held leadership positions in the field of quantitative and qualitative risk management. In his current role he is responsible for the global risk management organization of the Munich Re Group. Markus holds a PhD in theoretical physics.
Henrik Matsen
Co-Founder, and former member of the Management Executive Committee, Athora and Partner
Henry Costa Partners
Partner at Henry Costa Partners
Member of the Supervisory board of Kommunalkredit Austria AG, the European infrastructure and energy bank, and chair of the Credit Committee of the Supervisory board.
Prior to founding Henry Costa Partners Ltd, Henrik was a co-founder and member of the Management Executive Committee of Athora, the European life insurance affiliate of Apollo Global Management. From its formation in 2014 as a subsidiary of Athene (the US life insurance subsidiary of Apollo) until his departure in 2023, Henrik held multiple group management roles and directorships of multiple operating insurance entities across Europe and Bermuda.
Prior to this, he was co-founder and director of RMR Advisors Ltd, an investment and advisory firm which provided insurance related advisory services to Apollo, Athene and their affiliates from 2012 until the creation of Athora. RMR Advisors Ltd was acquired by the NYSE listed Athene Holding Ltd in October 2016.
Henrik previously worked at UBS in its Financial Institutions Group Investment Banking division, and in FICC Structuring.
Henrik holds a B.Sc. degree from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH) in Bergen, Norway.
Annabel Rudebeck
Deputy Chief Investment Officer and Head of Investment Management
Western Asset Management
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Violetta Bernyk
Head of Investments, Treasury, & ALM
Assura Group
Head of Investments, Treasury & ALM, Assura Group After PhD in financial mathematics from EPFL (Lausanne) and postdoctoral tenure at Cambridge Univesity, Violetta joins UBS to continue her career in the industry. Prior to joining Assura she also held managerial positions at Swiss Life and Zurich Insurances, deepening the insights on both passives and actives. In Assura, she oversees the portfolios for base and complementary insurances, as well as pension fund of the group.
Moritz Zander
Head of Investments
New Reinsurance Company
Moritz Zander, CFA is Head of Investments at New Reinsurance Company Ltd. Former experience includes Head of Origination, Capital Partners at New Re, VP, Capital Solutions EMEA and Senior Credit Underwriter at Swiss Re, and Economist at MIGA, World Bank Group. He holds a Masters degree in International Policy Studies from Stanford University and a licence degree (Bachelor of Arts) from the University of Geneva.
Keith Goodby
Head of Shareholder Investments & Strategy and Chief Investment Officer
Aviva
Keith Goodby is Head of Shareholder Investments & Strategy at Aviva, where he leads investment strategy, manager oversight, portfolio and collateral management, with a particular focus on the Matching Adjustment portfolio. With over 25 years of experience in the insurance and investment industry, Keith brings a unique blend of asset and liability-side expertise.
Prior to joining Aviva, Keith was Head of the Insurance Investment Solutions Group at Willis Towers Watson, advising life and general insurers globally on investment and ALM strategies. He also served as Portfolio Director for the with-profits fund at Legal & General, where he was responsible for investment and ALM. Earlier in his career, Keith worked in consultancy for Tillinghast, supporting insurers on the liability side.
Keith is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and holds an MEng (Hons) in Electronic Engineering and Japanese.
Corrado Pistarino
Chief Investment Officer
Foresters Friendly Society
Corrado Pistarino has more than 25 years' experience in capital market. He is Chief Investment Officer at Foresters Friendly Society.
Previously to his current positions, he was Head of Insurance LDI at Aviva Investors, responsible for over £10bn of insurance funds and £30bn of derivatives exposure.
His previous employers include Deutsche Bank, Dresden Kleinwort and ABN AMRO Bank. He worked in structuring/trading and client coverage, with a focus on ALM and capital management solutions.
Corrado has a degree in Physics from Turin University and a Master in Finance from London Business School.
Raman Rajagopal
Senior Client Portfolio Manager, Private Credit
Invesco
Raman Rajagopal is a Senior Client Portfolio Manager dedicated to Invesco’s global private credit group, which includes capabilities across broadly syndicated loans, CLO’s, direct lending and distressed credit & special situations.
Mr. Rajagopal joined Invesco in 2016. With Invesco, he has held roles focusing on private markets asset classes as well as in corporate strategy. Mr. Rajagopal was previously a management consultant with Accenture, where he concentrated on wealth and asset management companies. Prior to Accenture, he worked in asset management roles with Oppenheimer and Morgan Stanley. He began his career as a corporate attorney with Paul Hastings LLP, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Rajagopal earned a BS degree with university honors from Carnegie Mellon University and a JD from the University of Southern California Law School.
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Jonida Vesiu
Senior Manager
Deloitte
Jonida is a Senior Manager in the Investment Management & Private Equity practice of Deloitte UK, based in Jersey.
She has over 19 years’ experience in financial services focusing on audit and assurance services to private equity and debt funds, and banks.
Jonida is one of Deloitte’s Private Equity specialists, playing a central role in the practice resources on venture capital and growth equity funds, where she leads the sector group identifying the latest trends and developments in the market.
Mehdi Khalili
Investment Strategist and Chair of Global Infrastructure Task Force
Legal and General
Jason Young
Head of U.S. & APAC Corporate Private Placements and Private Structured Credit, Private Capital
MetLife Investment Management
Jason Young is Head of U.S. Corporate Private Placements and Private Structured Credit for MetLife Investment Management’s (MIM) Private Capital. He is responsible for leading MIM’s U.S.-based Private Placement team covering the Corporate and Structured Debt Private Placement markets in the U.S and APAC
Prior to joining MIM in 2024, Jason held various transactional and organizational roles across global corporates, structured corporates and direct origination across his 17-year career at Corebridge Financial fka AIG Investments. Prior to Corebridge Financial, Jason completed a three-year formal credit training program within Citigroup’s middle market lending group.
Jason earned an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business and a B.B.A. from Texas Christian University’s Neeley School of Business. He is a CFA® charterholder.
Matt Brennan
Head of Asset Allocation & Research, Insurance, Pensions & Investments
Scottish Widows
Matthew Brennan is the Head of Asset Allocation & Research at Scottish Widows.
In this role, Matthew is responsible for setting the strategic asset allocation across Scottish Widows' multi-asset solutions. Through thought-leadership in asset allocation research, his team continuously develops and refines the company's approach to ensure optimal investment strategies.
Prior to this, Matthew served as Executive Director, Investment Oversight at Valu-Trac, an independent ACD. He also held significant roles at AJ Bell, including Head of Investment Management and Head of Passive Investments. His extensive experience spans private banking, hedge funds, and data analytics.
Matthew graduated in 2011 with a first-class Maths degree and is a CFA charterholder.
Jonathan Campbell
Senior Credit Risk Specialist
Phoenix Group
Adam Ruddle
Chief Investment Officer
LV=
Adam Ruddle is the Chief Investment Officer at LV=. He has responsibility for the investment management, allocation and optimisation of over £14bn of assets under management. His remit includes designing and setting investment strategies, managing group liquidity, the oversight of external asset managers and the structuring of physical and synthetic investment solutions for the company. Adam has been with LV= for nearly 15 years working in a wide range of roles including Asset Liability Management, Financial Reporting and Valuation, Capital Management and With-Profits oversight. He is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and holds the Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary designation.
Jennifer Loftus
Group CFO and Chief Actuary
Acorn Life
Jennifer is an actuary and accountant with over 20 years’ experience in the insurance industry. She currently serves as Executive Director, Group CFO, Chief Risk Officer and Head of Actuarial Function with Acorn Life in Ireland. She is also an Independent Non Executive Director of Vhi, the Irish state-owned health insurer. Jennifer is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (UK), the Society of Actuaries in Ireland and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. She is a member of the IFoA Actuarial Data Science Working Group and is an active member of the Society of Actuaries in Ireland through the Data Science Committee and the Diversity, Equity, Accessibility and Inclusion Committee. Jennifer holds an MSc in Data Analytics and is an Ambassador for Women in Data Science.
Adrian Chapman
Head of Group Climate Investment Oversight
L&G
Adrian is Head of Group Climate Investment Oversight at Legal & General, partnering with the L&G divisions to oversee the “Invest” pillar of our Group climate and nature strategy. Externally, Adrian is involved in a number of industry initiatives. He is the Legal & General representative within the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) and is also on the SBTi Expert Advisory Group for the Financial Institution Net Zero (FINZ) Standard, having led the work to obtain to SBTi verification on Legal & General’s near-term investment targets.
Adrian has worked at L&G for coming up to twenty years, across a variety of departments and roles, while driving investment climate change initiatives within the Group function for the last seven years. He is a qualified Actuary with a BSc in Maths, Statistics, Operational Research and Economics from Warwick University.
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Violetta Bernyk
Head of Investments, Treasury, & ALM
Assura Group
Head of Investments, Treasury & ALM, Assura Group After PhD in financial mathematics from EPFL (Lausanne) and postdoctoral tenure at Cambridge Univesity, Violetta joins UBS to continue her career in the industry. Prior to joining Assura she also held managerial positions at Swiss Life and Zurich Insurances, deepening the insights on both passives and actives. In Assura, she oversees the portfolios for base and complementary insurances, as well as pension fund of the group.
Moritz Zander
Head of Investments
New Reinsurance Company
Moritz Zander, CFA is Head of Investments at New Reinsurance Company Ltd. Former experience includes Head of Origination, Capital Partners at New Re, VP, Capital Solutions EMEA and Senior Credit Underwriter at Swiss Re, and Economist at MIGA, World Bank Group. He holds a Masters degree in International Policy Studies from Stanford University and a licence degree (Bachelor of Arts) from the University of Geneva.
Keith Goodby
Head of Shareholder Investments & Strategy and Chief Investment Officer
Aviva
Keith Goodby is Head of Shareholder Investments & Strategy at Aviva, where he leads investment strategy, manager oversight, portfolio and collateral management, with a particular focus on the Matching Adjustment portfolio. With over 25 years of experience in the insurance and investment industry, Keith brings a unique blend of asset and liability-side expertise.
Prior to joining Aviva, Keith was Head of the Insurance Investment Solutions Group at Willis Towers Watson, advising life and general insurers globally on investment and ALM strategies. He also served as Portfolio Director for the with-profits fund at Legal & General, where he was responsible for investment and ALM. Earlier in his career, Keith worked in consultancy for Tillinghast, supporting insurers on the liability side.
Keith is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and holds an MEng (Hons) in Electronic Engineering and Japanese.
Corrado Pistarino
Chief Investment Officer
Foresters Friendly Society
Corrado Pistarino has more than 25 years' experience in capital market. He is Chief Investment Officer at Foresters Friendly Society.
Previously to his current positions, he was Head of Insurance LDI at Aviva Investors, responsible for over £10bn of insurance funds and £30bn of derivatives exposure.
His previous employers include Deutsche Bank, Dresden Kleinwort and ABN AMRO Bank. He worked in structuring/trading and client coverage, with a focus on ALM and capital management solutions.
Corrado has a degree in Physics from Turin University and a Master in Finance from London Business School.
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Andrew Rice
Actuarial Manager
EY
Arno Albici
Senior Manager, Portfolio and Planning | Annuity Asset Origination
Aviva
Hikmet Sevdican
Chief Executive Officer
Achmea Mortgages
Hikmet Sevdican (1972) has been working at Achmea Mortgages since October 2023 as a Managing Director. Before joining Achmea, Sevdican was Managing Director at Rabo Fund Management and played a key role in founding Vista Hypotheken in 2018. Previously, Sevdican was Managing Partner at Dynamic Credit Partners Europe, a board member of the professional association of investment professionals VBA, and held various fund management roles at APG and Robeco.
Xavier Solano
Assistant Director, Head of Prudential Regulation
Association of British Insurers
Xavier Solano leads on prudential regulation and operational resilience and coordinates a team of technical experts covering key topics such as Solvency UK, industry stress tests, the Insurance Resolution Regime, operational resilience, and liquidity risk, among others.
Xavier works closely with the insurance and long-term savings sector, representing their interests to the Bank of England/PRA, HM Treasury, IAIS and other key stakeholders. He has participated in the PRA's Subject Expert Groups on Solvency UK and Stress Testing and in CMORG's industry subgroups.
The ABI Prudential Regulation Team has earned several awards including UK & Europe InsuranceERM Risk Team of the Year (Feb 2023) and the Risk and Resilience British Insurance Award (July 2023).
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Brian Digney
Research & Content Director
Standards Board for Alternative Investments
Brian Digney joined the SBAI in March 2023 in the role of Research and Content Director. He is responsible for content development and co-ordination of the ongoing and future working groups on a wide variety of topics, including valuation of private assets, ESG & carbon footprinting, governance, insurance linked strategies, digital assets, asset management regulation and compliance as well as new topics to be determined in the future.
Prior to joining the SBAI, Brian was the Head of Due Diligence & Governance Oversight at Innocap Global Investment Management (Ireland) Ltd (2018-2023) in Dublin, a subsidiary of Innocap Investment Management Inc., a US$50bn hedge fund platform. He acted as Designated Person for Operational Risk Management, a regulated role by the Central Bank of Ireland. He also sat on Innocap’s Irish Risk Oversight and Valuation Committees. In 2017, Brian joined Albourne Partners in London as a Senior Operational Due Diligence Analyst. From 2015 to 2017 he was employed as an Operational Due Diligence Analyst at Mercer Sentinel in London. From 2010 to 2015 he held various Associate level roles at Decura LLP, Morgan Stanley and Citi.
Brian holds an LLB Hons in Law with Criminology and an M.Sc. in Management and Corporate Governance from University of Ulster. Brian is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst.
Peter McGloughlin
Chief Investment Officer
Canada Life Reinsurance
