Liz Cleary is a Guy Carpenter Analytics account
manager for a number of global insurance firms as
​2020 ISCM Board of Directors
Peter Bingenheimer
Senior Vice President, AIR
ISCM Board Member
Peter Bingenheimer is a Senior Vice President
responsible for the day-to-day leadership of AIR’s
business development, consulting, and support
efforts for AIR’s insurer, insurance broker,
reinsurance broker, and reinsurer clients in the
Americas and Bermuda. Peter began his career at
AIR in the consulting area, where he led the
execution of a wide range of projects including
full-scale insurer and reinsurer portfolio analyses,
rate-making and mitigation studies, catastrophe
bond risk analyses, model evaluation studies, and
new client implementations.
Liz Cleary
Managing Director, Guy Carpenter
ISCM Board Member
Times, Wall Street Journal, PBS, NPR, CNN and
many insurance trade publications. He is known
well as FEMA. She regularly collaborates with
primary insurance and reinsurance companies on
the implementation and adoption of catastrophe
management strategies. In addition to her
experience managing catastrophic risk, Liz has 15+
years of experience as a (re) insurance broker and
primary property underwriter.
Andrew Castaldi
Independent Consultant
ISCM - Past President
Andrew Castaldi is now an independent
consultant who provides insurance executives,
state officials, NGOs and solopreneurs with
insights on how to solve a variety of complex
problems surrounding the economic, physical,
regulatory, delivery, and political aspects of
natural hazard insurance, reinsurance, and
consumer resilience. His resume spans four
decades of senior level experiences within the
insurance, reinsurance, and catastrophe risk
consulting industries where he worked in a variety
of roles including underwriting, operations,
catastrophe risk management, capital markets,
residual markets, legislator/regulator
relationships, consumer groups, and NGOs. In
addition Andy also runs photography workshops
modelsandlandscapes.com.
Andrew has been quoted in print and broadcast
outlets around the world, including The New York
for his honesty, integrity, and knowledge while
doing so in an easy to comprehend manner. He
has provided testimony to both federal and state
legislative bodies, government agencies, and
regulators on a variety of topics. He has been the
technical advisor on a number of state and federal
tasks forces looking into the residual markets,
insurance costs, and consumer needs. He has
authored or co-authored publications on natural
disasters, held board positions or collaborated
with NIBS, IBHS, RAA, AGU, CEA, PERILS, The
Nature Conservatory, USFS, The Hurricane Center,
World Bank, UN, NGOs, ISCM, NCAR, numerous
universities, and state regulators. He was a
founder of the International Society of
Catastrophe Modelers (ISCM), was the first
architect of the RAA Catastrophe Modeling
Workshop, and has done numerous presentations
on topical issues here and abroad.
Mark Christensen
Head of Catastrophe Risk
Management, Chubb Overseas
General (COG), London
ISCM Board Member
Mark joined Chubb (formerly Ace) in 2012 as Head
of Catastrophe Risk Management for Ace
European Group and became Head of Catastrophe
Management for Chubb Overseas General (COG )
in 2015. His team is responsible for the
parameterisation, pricing and accumulation
management of Chubb’s international
catastrophe risk portfolios. Mark’s particular focus
is the development of portfolio optimisation
metrics, real-time analytics and innovative MI
tools, for deployment across the underwriting
regions and to senior management.
Mark entered the catastrophe management
industry in 1998, starting up the Brockbank
syndicate’s catastrophe risk management function
at Lloyd’s of London. During his 14 years at XL
Capital (formerly Brockbank), Mark was
responsible for the parameterisation of natural
and man-made catastrophe risk across both
insurance and reinsurance divisions. His particular
focus was on developing catastrophe risk metrics
for previously “non-modelled” risk as Aggregation
Manager -Specialty Practice Leader.
Mark holds an Honours degree in Business from
Brunel University, specialising in Quantitative
Business Analytics and is a board member of the
International Society of Catastrophe Managers
ISCM.
Daniel Dick
Executive Managing Director, Aon
Benfield
ISCM Executive Board Secretary
Dan is an Executive Managing Director in Aon’s
Reinsurance Solutions group, leading the group’s
Global Catastrophe Management Practice. Dan is
responsible for group strategy and assuring
best-in-industry services. The Catastrophe
Management Practice Group consists of 240
professionals providing catastrophe modeling
analysis, catastrophe actuarial services, and
reinsurance placement support to Aon clients.
He joined Aon in 1998 after 7½ years at RLI with
responsibilities including overseeing catastrophe
management and catastrophe underwriting
processes. Prior to joining RLI, Dan was a licensed
producer for the Country Companies Insurance
Group.
Dan holds Bachelors of Science degrees in both
Computer Science and Mathematics from
Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois. In 1997
Dan earned his Associates of Surplus Lines (ASLI)
designation from the Insurance Institute of
America. Additionally, Dan is a board member of
the International Society of Catastrophe
Managers, Chairing their Education Committee
and a member of the Insurance Institute for
Business and Home Safety’s Research Advisory
Committee.
Nicholas F. DiMuzio
Head of Catastrophe Portfolio
Analytics & Systems, AXA XL
ISCM Executive Board Immediate
Past President
Nick oversees the Enterprise Natural Catastrophe
Exposure Modeling and Reporting process across
AXA XL in Stamford, Connecticut. Nick also leads
the planning and implementation of the
Catastrophe Modeling IT infrastructure, systems
and changes for Vendor and Internal Catastrophe
Models along with other Nat Cat modeling
aggregation processes, systems and simulation
methodologies.
15 years of extensive Catastrophe management
and Re(insurance) experience with a focus on
capacity management, modeling methodology,
implementation, simulation processes, pricing and
enterprise catastrophe risk management
methodologies.
Nick attended Southern Connecticut State
University in New Haven, CT and Majored in
Computer Programming with a focus on
Management Information Systems. and is
currently president of the International Society of
Catastrophe, has served on the board of the ISCM
since 2008 and has been an active member of the
RAA Cat Conference Planning Committee since
2008.
Carl G. Hedde
Principal
CGH Consulting, LLC
ISCM - Past President
Mr. Hedde is the Principal of CGH
Consulting, LLC, an organization
founded to provide strategic consulting services
to organizations focused on Catastrophe Risk
Mitigation and Risk Transfer strategies. He has
dedicated his professional career to the study of
catastrophic risk analysis methodologies that
promote efficient resilience, risk mitigation and
risk transfer strategies.
Mr. Hedde retired from Munich Reinsurance
Company as SVP, Head of Risk Accumulation. In
this role, he managed the Risk Accumulation
Department, which included the catastrophe
management, risk accumulation and geo research
functions within Munich Re, US. His
responsibilities included oversight of corporate
accumulation issues at Munich Re, US; including
the use of Catastrophe Risk Models, Client
Catastrophe Risk Consulting Services, and
portfolio management and optimization
strategies. Additionally, he managed the scientific
function that provided seismological and
meteorological expertise and research capabilities
to Munich Re and its’ clients.
Mr. Hedde received a Bachelor of Science Degree
from the State University of New York – Albany,
and holds the CPCU Designation. He has over 35
years’ experience at Munich Re, holding various
senior positions within the Company. He has
served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors
of the Insurance Institute for Business and Home
Safety (IBHS), and is a founding Board Member of
the International Society of Catastrophe
Managers (ISCM). He currently serves on the
National Institute for Building Science (NIBS)
Board as Vice Chairman.
David Keeton
DAVID G. KEETON
Executive VP Risk & Capital
Management / Avoca Risk
Management Solutions
ISCM Executive Board President
David Keeton is currently Executive Vice President
of Risk & Capital Management at Avoca Risk
Underwriting Services. As part of Avoca’s
leadership team, he is responsible for providing
guidance in steering Underwriting, Risk
Assessment and Portfolio Management within the
company. David is also responsible for creating a
new initiative to support innovative and
cost-effective wind mitigation technologies
including AeroEdge, to the construction and
insurance industries. With over 30 years of
professional experience, Mr. Keeton’s expertise as
a licensed structural engineer specializing in
forensic building science has proven a good
foundation for his underwriting, risk
management, loss assessment and insurance
pricing experience. He also serves as an executive
board member of the International Society of
Catastrophe Managers (ISCM) which promotes
improved understanding of catastrophe and risk
management issues.
Prior to Avoca, David worked in a wide variety of
capacities at Salient Risk Advisors, Weather
Predict (a Renaissance Reinsurance Affiliate) and
Willis Re. He started his (re)insurance career at
Underwriters Re which continued with Swiss Re as
an Underwriter, Actuarial Associate, Property
Pricing Manager and the Division Americas
Catastrophe Risk Manager. Specializing in
catastrophe loss assessment, capital allocation
and catastrophe risk management, David’s
expertise led to thought leadership roles across
each of these companies.
Mr. Keeton has performed numerous structural
field surveys following catastrophes most notably
including the Loma Prieta and Northridge
earthquakes as well as Hurricane Irma. David has
also leveraged his structural engineering expertise
and experience in developing loss estimations
following major catastrophes including the
terrorist attack on New York (9/11), Hurricane
Katrina and the Tōhoku, Japan earthquake.
David obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in
Architectural Engineering from California
Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo.
After obtaining his Civil and Structural licenses in
California, David became the chief structural
engineer of a consulting firm where his expertise
in seismic / wind design led to further
specialization as a forensic expert. David also
served on a national board of Structural Engineers
responsible for managing their risk retention
group for professional liability.
 Maria Kovas
Director of IT, TOA Re
ISCM - Past President
Maria has worked in all business types of the
insurance industry: Brokerage, Primary, and
Reinsurance.
As the first East Coast account manager at RMS,
she supported all of business types, including the
largest and most critical accounts, covering a
domestic geographic area from New Hampshire to
Florida inclusive of Chicago and internationally
supporting Bermuda, the Caribbean and traveling
as far as Melbourne, Australia.
This support included all domestic and
international models. The combination of
business, accounting, and IT experience facilitated
communication and training of the client staff and
the completion of installations which became
more and more complex as the modeling software
evolved.
Current interest focuses on the integration of new
technologies and risk management, especially the
incorporation of AI, Block Chain, Virtual Reality,
Robotics and Augmented Reality into day to day
business processing and risk management.
Tom Larsen
Principal, Content Strategy, Core
Logic
ISCM Board Member
Tom Larsen is a content strategy principal for
CoreLogic Insurance and Spatial Solutions. In this
role, Tom is responsible for subject matter
expertise and thought leadership focused on
natural catastrophes and data analytics.
Tom joined the CoreLogic team in 2013 with the
acquisition of EQECAT, Inc., a catastrophe risk
management organization, where he held the title
of Senior Vice President and Chief Product
Architect. Roles at EQECAT included leading
product management, client support, model
software development, catastrophe model
development and post-catastrophe
reconnaissance and review. Mr. Larsen has
experience in the development and application of
natural catastrophe risk modeling for the
insurance and reinsurance industries, and
government dating back to 1989. He has written
numerous articles for trade publications and
academia, participated on various industry panels,
and is a frequent speaker on the financial impact
of natural catastrophes.
Tom’s focus is on helping individuals,
organizations and government agencies prepare
and recover from the inevitable occurrence of
natural catastrophes such as earthquakes, tropical
cyclones, floods, fires and severe storms.
Tom earned a M. Eng. in Structural Mechanics
from the University of California, Berkeley, and a
B.S. in Civil Engineering from Stanford University.
He is based in Oakland, CA.
Randall Law
Vice President
Research & Development
Chubb Tempest Re
ISCM Past President
Randy joined Chubb (formerly ACE) Tempest Re in
2006 and oversees the Research and
Development initiatives for the organization.
Randy has had a long history in Catastrophe
Management starting in 1993 and was an early
adopter of Catastrophe Modeling within an
insurance operation. Randy has been a member of
the insurance and reinsurance industry since
1982, with a focus in systems and operations.
Randy has previously held positions at AIG, The
Home Insurance Company, Risk Management
Solutions, Swiss Re, and Partner Re. Randy is a
founding board member of the International
Society of Catastrophe Managers, and a member
of the Past Presidents Council. He holds his
Bachelors in Mathematics from the University at
Albany, New York, and a Masters of Business
Administration from the Fordham University
Gabelli School of Business.
 Monica Mason
Catastrophe Risk Expert
ISCM Board Member
Monica Mason serves on the board of the
International Society of Catastrophe Managers
(ISCM), is on the planning committee for the RAA
Cat Management conference, was recently
awarded the CCRMP designation, and serves on
the Advisory Board of the Gulf Research Program
at the National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering and Medicine. In her free time,
Monica volunteers with the Hoboken Community
Emergency Response Team and serves on the
Citizen Advisory Group for the HUD-funded
Hudson Rebuild by Design project in Hoboken, NJ.
She was most recently Senior Vice President and
Global Head of Catastrophe Risk Analytics at
TransRe. Her responsibilities included the overall
use of catastrophe models and associated
analytics, portfolio management of catastrophe
risk, and developing the TransRe view of risk
through model and peril research. Monica has
been active in catastrophe modeling and
management for nearly 19 years, with roles at the
Lloyd’s syndicate Talbot, Validus Reinsurance,
Willis Re, and RMS. Prior to catastrophe modeling,
she worked at Deloitte Consulting and interned at
the Minnesota legislature’s research function.
Mason is a graduate of Macalester College with a Management.
degree in Mathematics and Economics. She has
also completed her ARe and CEEM designations. Ron Nash
Vice President
Kristen Mitchell-Wallace Group CAT Manager
Head of Risk Aggregation The Hartford
Lloyd’s ISCM Past President
ISCM Board Member
“Ron Nash started his career in 1994 at AIG in
New York City heading up the US CAT Modeling
Kirsten Mitchell-Wallace is the Head of Risk team. Ron moved to Connecticut to work at NAC
Aggregation at Lloyd’s, the world’s leading Re which was later bought by XL Capital. Ron is
insurance market. She is responsible for leading also co-founder of the ISCM and currently works
the strategy and day to day activities of Exposure at Navigators Insurance Company as VP – Group
Management (EM), Lloyd’s Catastrophe Model CAT Manager.”
(LCM) and Outwards Reinsurance (ORI) teams. In
her previous role as Regional Cat Manager for Ron has a degree in Economics from the
Europe, Middle East and Africa at SCOR, she was University of Massachusetts with a specialization
responsible for leading cat teams based in Zurich in econometric modeling. Ron is also past Chair of
and Paris. Before this she was Head of Cat Pricing the Extreme Events Committee within the
and Methodology and responsible for Reinsurance Association of America and
coordinating the development of SCOR’s own co-founder the CAT Management conference.
view of risks, as well as managing the
Zurich-based cat team. She also worked for Willis
as a Senior Catastrophe Risk Analyst for almost
five years and spent two in model development
for RMS after a couple of years as a risk
management consultant.
Kirsten has a PhD in Atmospheric Physics from
Imperial College, London and a Masters in
Meteorology from Reading University, as well as a
degree in Chemistry from the University of Bristol.
She also has an International Diploma in Risk
Management from the Institute of Risk

Brian Owens
Vice President, Risk Management
Solutions
ISCM Board Member
Based in London, Brian Owens is a meteorologist
and specialist in catastrophe risk management. At
RMS he is responsible for the global strategy to
bring models and data to the market. Mr. Owens
has more than 20 years’ experience in insurance,
catastrophe financing, and catastrophe risk
management, and has held senior positions at JP
Morgan Chase, Chubb Insurance Group, and Willis
Re.
He is also a published science and risk
management author, and has written numerous
articles and blogs on catastrophe risk modelling
and management.
Mr. Owens holds a BS in computer science from
the National University of Ireland, an MBA from
the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,
and an MS in meteorology from the Rosenstiel
School of Marine and Atmospheric Science,
University of Miami.
Julie Serakos
Executive Vice President
Catastrophe Analytics
BMS Re US
ISCM Board Member
Julie Serakos currently serves as an Executive Vice
President leading Catastrophe Analytics for BMS
Re US. She has 30 years of industry experience,
including roles at Willis Re where she built from
the ground up the U.S. catastrophe management
services division and lead the property resource
team, The St. Paul Cos. where she oversaw risk
analytics supporting underwriting teams and
overall portfolio management, and began her
career at E.W. Blanch Co. supporting the
development of the first industry cat models:
Catalyst, AIR and RMS while leading the formation
of the Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss
Projection Methodology and piloted the use of
models for portfolio optimization, residual market
depopulation and ratemaking.
Julie holds a Bachelor of Mathematics degree
from the Institute of Technology at the University
of Minnesota.
Jon Ward
RLI Insurance
AVP – Risk Services
ISCM Executive Board Treasurer
Jon has been leading RLI’s ceded reinsurance
efforts in 2014. He joined RLI 15 years ago and
has worked in various roles related to risk
modeling, exposure evaluation, and portfolio
optimization. His current responsibilities include
overseeing the Ceded Reinsurance and Exposure
Management departments. Jon is a board
member of the International Society of
Catastrophe Managers (ISCM) and the current
President of the Illinois Central College
Foundation Board. He graduated from Bradley
University with a degree in Business
Management.
Simon Weber
Head of Exposure & Catastrophe
Management
QBE
ISCM Board Member
 Amy Wixon
AVP and Director of Exposure
Management, Corporate
Enterprise Risk Management
Liberty Mutual Insurance
ISCM Board Member
Amy Wixon is AVP and Director of Exposure
Management within the Corporate Enterprise Risk
Management function at Liberty Mutual. Her
team is responsible for group-wide portfolio level
exposure modeling and analysis including
oversight and facilitation of group-wide exposure
management and reinsurance placement
analytics. This includes interpretation and use of
third-party models as well as development of the
in-house view of risk for natural perils and other
catastrophes such as Terrorism and Casualty Cat.
Amy spent the early part of her career working as
a pricing actuary on both property and casualty
business. Her property work led her to
catastrophe modeling and in 2001, she joined
OneBeacon Insurance to manage their
catastrophe modeling team. Amy joined Liberty
Mutual in 2008 to lead the newly created
corporate catastrophe modeling unit which would
bring group level portfolio modeling in-house. She
continues to oversee this function where the
scope of business, perils, and territories is ever
expanding.
Amy earned a B.S. in Mathematics with a
concentration in Probability and Statistics from
the University of Arizona.
Peter Zimmerli
Senior Cat Risk Assessment and
Management Consultant
AXIS Capital
ISCM Board Member
Peter Zimmerli is an independent expert on
catastrophe risk management. Until 2018, Peter
was responsible for Swiss Re's risk assessment of
all wind related perils globally, leading a
multi-national team with employees located in
Zurich, New York (Armonk), Munich and
Bangalore. Prior to this, Peter managed
catastrophe risk across Asia during four years in
Hong Kong and developed proprietary cat models
for Swiss Re out of Zurich. Through projects and
internal rotations, Peter has assumed roles in
property treaty/single-risk underwriting (Munich,
Madrid, Tokyo, Sydney, London), product
development (cat bonds, parametric insurance),
regulatory model approval (Solvency II, Swiss
Solvency), portfolio steering, post-event loss
estimation and strategy development.
More recently, Peter has acquired profound
expertise in cyber reinsurance and holds a CAS in
Cyber Security from the federal Institute of
Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland.
Peter has been a spokesperson at cat insurance
industry events and in the press for many years.
Peter also worked at Winterthur Insurance (now
part of Axa/XL Group) and at the ETH research
center “Institute of Snow, Landscape and
Avalanches”.
Peter is a member of the board of the
International Society of Catastrophe Managers
ISCM.
Peter holds a Master of Science in Geology from
the University of Zurich, is an ERASMUS alumni
from the University of Barcelona and holds a CAS
in Cyber Security from the ETH Zurich.
Shari Zola
VP - Deputy Head of Risk
Accumulation
Munich Re America, Inc.
ISCM Executive Board
Vice President
Shari has been an American Re/Munich Re
employee for 34 years. She is currently the Smart
Mobility Operations Lead in the Mobility Domain,
part of The​ ​Incubator within the Munich Re US
Operations. The Incubator focuses on
accelerating growth in new areas of risk
management, with the goal of the Mobility
domain to help society manage the new risks
associated with the future of mobility. She also
supports the Resilience Domain, designed to
cover a range of topics related to natural or
man-made risks.
Prior to this new role Shari was the Vice
President/Deputy Head of Risk Accumulation for
the Munich Re US Operations, and in the cat risk
management space for 27 years. She was
instrumental in starting the Catastrophe
Management Department, and served on a global
team responsible for developing, implementing,
and directing global strategy on catastrophe
exposure/loss accumulation and capital risk
allocations, with her focus on the U.S.
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. She is a Chartered Property and
Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), and has earned the
Associate in Reinsurance (ARe), and Certified
Catastrophe Risk Management Professional
(CCRMP) designations.
Chris Zumbrum
Head of Product Delivery in the
Global Model Solutions and
Advisory team
JLT Re
ISCM Board Member
In his current role as Head of Product Delivery in
the Global Model Solutions and Advisory team,
Chris leads a team whose responsibilities include
enhancing and delivering client-facing applications
such as CATography and AdvantagePoint – a
spatial analysis suite for four key catastrophe
management functions: risk management,
underwriting, event response/claims and workers
compensation. Over the next 1 ½ - 2 years, Chris
and his team will deliver a new geospatial solution
to the market that incorporates the best of both
CATography and AdvantagePoint. During his 7
years at JLT Re, Chris led a team that has expertise
in various areas that include meteorology,
hydrology, geophysics and GIS applications. He
assists clients and prospects to identify/advance
their catastrophe risk management strategies and
their understanding of catastrophe models.
He previously spent 13 years at Risk Management
Solutions, Inc (RMS) where he held various
client-facing positions ranging from Senior
Consultant in Analytical Services to Industry
Practice Leader of both the Large Commercial and
Bermuda Industry Practice Groups. His last role
there was Vice President and Client Service Leader
of the Bermuda Market and the Continental
Europe Market as well. He has expert knowledge
of RMS products and how they’re utilized in
underwriting, portfolio management and
reinsurance decision-making across the US,
Bermuda and Europe. Before RMS, he worked at
United States Fidelity & Guaranty (USF&G)/St.
Paul and The Maryland Insurance Group in their
Ceded Reinsurance Departments in Baltimore,
MD.
Chris holds a Bachelor of Science in Business
Administration from Shippensburg University. In
addition, he has the Associate in Reinsurance
(ARe), Certified Catastrophe Risk Analyst (CCRA)
and Certified Catastrophe Risk Management
Professional (CCRMP) designations. Chris has
spoken on various catastrophe risk management
topics at numerous conferences and is a board
member of the International Society of
Catastrophe Management.