The CCRIF Team

The ERN/RED consortium team provides the services of risk management, financial planning, catastrophe modelling and coordination of reinsurance placement for CCRIF. RED, which began in 2008, has expertise in catastrophe risk modelling for earthquakes, tropical cyclones and floods. RED’s projects deal with issuance of catastrophe bonds for sovereign countries and designing products for catastrophe risk management of insurance facilities. ERN was founded in 1996 and is the leading catastrophe risk modelling firm in Latin America. ERN has developed models for several perils, including earthquake, tropical cyclone and drought, and for many countries in the world. Paolo Bazzurro is the ERN/RED team leader for CCRIF.

London & Capital is a specialist asset management company head-quartered in London, UK. With more than 20 years’ expertise and experience, the company focuses on capital preservation and wealth management. Lisl Lewis is London and Capital Limited’s team leader for CCRIF.

Butterfield Asset Management is a fully integrated group business, operating across 4 jurisdictions – Bermuda, The Cayman Islands, London and Guernsey – and has been an investment manager for primary insurance and captive insurance companies in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands for over 25 years. Butterfield Bank Cayman was incorporated in 1967 as a wholly-owned subsidiary and is regulated by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority. Reece Jarvis is Butterfield’s team leader for CCRIF and is Head of Fixed Income for the Group.

Willis Re, part of Willis Towers Watson, is one of the world’s leading reinsurance advisory and broking businesses. Through its global network, Willis Re delivers world-class reinsurance expertise and analytics capabilities to a diverse client base, serving the risk management and risk transfer needs of all the world’s major re/insurance carriers and many national catastrophe schemes. Willis Re also works in partnership with the Willis Research Network (WRN), the world’s largest collaboration between academia and the finance and re/insurance industries. With over 50 world-leading institutions in the network, the WRN is unique to Willis. It provides an essential foundation for catastrophe model and vendor model analysis. Anthony Phillips, Cameron Roe and David Simmons are Willis Re’s team leaders for CCRIF.

Sagicor Insurance Managers Ltd. (SIM) is a member of the Sagicor Financial Group, which is listed on the Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago and London Stock Exchanges. Formed originally as Barbados Mutual in 1840, Sagicor has become the leading indigenous financial services organization in the Caribbean, with a presence in 21 countries across the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, in 41 states of the United States and the District of Columbia. SIM provides insurance management services in the Cayman Islands, and provides regulatory, accounting and corporate secretarial support to CCRIF. Ivan Carter is Sagicor’s team leader for CCRIF and is supported by Kimberlyn Battick as the Account Manager.

Sustainability Managers (SM) is a consultancy company that offers a range of services to public and private sector entities as well as international and regional organizations in the areas of policy development and planning, environmental education, capacity building, environmental management and communications. SM provides CCRIF with the following services: publications development, events planning, public relations and media relations management, strategic planning, training and IT management and manages the implementation of the CCRIF Technical Assistance Programme. Elizabeth Emanuel is Sustainability Managers’ team leader for CCRIF and is supported by Gina Sanguinetti Phillips as the Programme Director.