Webinar – Career Development for Catastrophe Risk Management Professionals

​When: 10 Jul 2019
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT
Location: Zoom meeting - 10:30am NYC / 3:30pm London

Register at: https://iscm.wildapricot.org/event-3459844/

Are you looking to build a career in cat risk management?  Are you a cat modeler thinking about future opportunities?  If the answer is yes, this webinar is for you.  If you have individuals on your team in the early stages of their career in this specialty, encourage them to participate.
Shari Zola and Alexandre Casey will share their career developments starting in catastrophe exposure management.  Their breadth of knowledge of our profession in US and UK can open our minds of career choices in the (re)insurance industry. 

Moderated by Imelda Powers, Managing Director of Guy Carpenter.

Shari Zola
Munich Re, USA
Shari has been an American Re/Munich Re employee for 33+ years, and is currently a member of the IRM-Accumulation Risk Management Team of Munich Re in Princeton.  She serves on a global team responsible for developing, implementing, and directing global strategy on catastrophe exposure/loss accumulation and capital risk allocations.  Her focus is on the portfolio accumulation of exposures and capacity management for all U.S. entities.  She is responsible for the quality assurance of cat modeling within the U.S., and implementing Munich Re Corporate Underwriting mandated Risk Accumulation guidelines and best practices across each of the business units, as well as managing the process and technology infrastructure for the catastrophe modeling function.
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Shari received her undergraduate degree in Business - Management Information Systems from the State University of New York at Albany, and her Masters of Business Administration from Rider University.  Shari serves on the Executive Board of the International Society of Catastrophe Managers as Vice President.  She also holds the CPCU, ARe, and CCRMP designations.
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Alexandre Casey
Hiscox, UK
Alex is an underwriter with Hiscox where he has worked for 10 years in a variety of reinsurance roles. He currently underwrites property retrocession, and has worked across international property reinsurance and directors and officers insurance lines. Prior to underwriting, Alex was responsible for leading the London-based reinsurance analytics team covering property, specialty and casualty classes, and built the analytics platform for the new Hiscox Re ILS vehicles prior to their launch in 2014. He started his career as a graduate in the catastrophe modelling function, working predominantly in international property treaty. Alex has an undergraduate MSci in Physics from Imperial College London.