Greenlight Re strives for the highest standards of corporate governance.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
DAVID EINHORN
DAVID EINHORN
David Einhorn has been a director of our Board since July 2004 and Chairman of our Board since August 6, 2004. Mr. Einhorn co-founded, and has served as the President of, Greenlight Capital, Inc., since January 1996. Mr. Einhorn serves as President of DME Advisors, LP, or DME Advisors, our investment advisor. Greenlight Capital, Inc. and DME Advisors are affiliates of the Company. Since April 2006, Mr. Einhorn has served as a director of Green Brick Partners, Inc, (Nasdaq: GRBK), formerly named BioFuel Energy Corp. Mr. Einhorn graduated summa cum laude with distinction from Cornell University in 1991 where he earned a B.A. from the College of Arts and Sciences.
FRANK D. LACKNER
FRANK D. LACKNER
Frank D. Lackner has been a director of our Board since July 2004. Mr. Lackner also has served as a director of each of Greenlight Re since 2004 and GRIL since 2010. Mr. Lackner has served as Corporate Advisor to Lackner Capital Advisors LLC, an advisory firm, since 2007. In February 2013, Mr. Lackner became affiliated with FourBridges Capital Advisors, a middle market investment bank. Mr. Lackner previously served as Managing Director at Freeman & Co. LLC, a boutique M&A advisory and strategic management consulting firm, from 2010 to 2011. He served as Managing Director of Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller, a global specialist investment bank, from May 2007 to September 2007. Prior to this, Mr. Lackner served as a managing director of Torsiello Securities Inc., an investment banking and financial advisory services company to the global insurance and financial services industry, and its predecessor firm from October 2001 until October 2006. From January 1998 to October 2001, Mr. Lackner was a founder and chief executive officer of Risk Continuum, Inc., an online reinsurance trading exchange. During such time, Mr. Lackner also provided consulting services to First International Capital LLC and to other clients in the insurance industry. From September 1993 to December 1997, Mr. Lackner was a vice president of Insurance Partner Advisors, L.P., a private equity fund focused on the global insurance industry. From 1992 to 1993, Mr. Lackner was a finite risk reinsurance underwriter at the Centre Reinsurance Companies, where he worked on both corporate development projects and structuring and pricing finite risk insurance and reinsurance products. From 1990 to 1992, Mr. Lackner was an insurance investment banker at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp. From June 2004 to July 2009, Mr. Lackner served as a director of American Safety Insurance Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: ASI), a specialty insurance company that provides customized insurance products and solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Mr. Lackner received his Bachelors of Business Administration in Banking and Finance from Hofstra University in 1989.
BRYAN MURPHY
BRYAN MURPHY
Bryan Murphy has been a director of our Board since May 2008. From 1996 until his retirement in December 2007, Mr. Murphy served as a founding director and chief executive officer of Island Heritage Holdings Ltd., a Cayman Islands based property, liability and automobile insurer. Prior to Island Heritage, Mr. Murphy acted as a consultant to Trident Partnership from 1994 to 1996 and was employed by International Risk Management Group from 1978 to 1994. Mr. Murphy has over 30 years experience in the insurance business and has held senior positions in several countries, including the Cayman Islands, Ireland, Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia. Until December 2007, Mr. Murphy served on the board of directors of AZ Reinsurance Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Astra-Zeneca PLC and a captive insurer of the group’s property and liability insurance business. In addition, until December 2008, Mr. Murphy served on the board of directors of ICHEM Reinsurance Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of ICI PLC and a captive insurer for the group’s property and liability insurance business. In 2014, Mr. Murphy joined the board of directors of Bahamas First General Insurance Co., a company that provides general insurance coverage in the Bahamas. Also in 2014, Mr. Murphy joined the board of directors of Colliers Bay Insurance Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Schlumberger Limited and a captive insurer based in the Cayman Islands. Mr. Murphy holds a degree in Economics and Mathematics from University College, Dublin, Ireland.
ALAN BROOKS
ALAN BROOKS
Alan Brooks has been a director of our Board since July 2004. Mr. Brooks also has served as a director of Greenlight Re since 2004. From February 2001 until his retirement in July 2003, Mr. Brooks was engaged as a consultant by KPMG in the Cayman Islands. Prior to that, from 1984 to 1999, Mr. Brooks served as the non-life insurance practice partner at KPMG in the Cayman Islands. During those years, Mr. Brooks specialized in providing audit and liquidation services to the offshore insurance industry. Mr. Brooks was engaged as the audit partner for over 150 licensed insurance companies in the Cayman Islands, ranging from companies writing property and casualty, life and credit insurance as well as special purpose vehicles formed to insure catastrophe risks. Mr. Brooks has significant experience in the preparation of financial statements in accordance with United States and International generally accepted accounting principles. From August 2003 until June 2011, Mr. Brooks was a shareholder and director of Genesis Trust and Corporate Services Ltd., a Cayman Islands based trust and management company. Since, 2009, Mr. Brooks serves as a director of Investors Trust Assurance SPC, a Cayman based insurance company. Mr. Brooks has been a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales since 1979. Prior to qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, Mr. Brooks received a Diploma of Education from the North Buckinghamshire College of Education in 1968.
JOSEPH PLATT
JOSEPH PLATT
Joseph Platt has been a director of our Board since July 2004. Mr. Platt is an active investor as the general partner at Thorn Partners, LP, a family limited partnership since 1997. Mr. Platt’s career at Johnson and Higgins, or J&H, a global insurance broker and employee benefits consultant, spanned 27 years until the sale of J&H to Marsh & McLennan Companies in March 1997. At the time of the sale of J&H, Mr. Platt was an owner, director and executive vice president responsible for North America and marketing and sales worldwide. Mr. Platt was head of the operating committee and a member of the executive committee at J&H. Mr. Platt is on the board of directors of Jones Brown, a private Canadian insurance broker, and serves as an independent director of the BlackRock Open End & Liquidity Funds. He is also a Director of the West Penn Allegheny Health System. Mr. Platt is a member of the New York State Bar Association. Mr. Platt received his B.A. from Manhattan College in 1968 and his J.D. from Fordham University Law School in 1971. Mr. Platt also attended Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program in 1983.
IAN ISAACS
IAN ISAACS
Ian Isaacs has been a director of our Board since May 2008. Since August 2015, Mr. Isaacs has served as Managing Member of Katonah Research LLC, a firm which provides market intelligence to investors. From September 2012 to April 2015, Mr. Isaacs served as a senior partner at Gagnon Securities, a New York-based broker dealer where his duties included providing portfolio analytics and market intelligence to institutional investors. Previously, from April 2008 to July 2012, Mr. Isaacs served as a senior partner at Merlin Securities, a San Francisco-based broker dealer. Mr. Isaacs previously served as a director of our Board from its founding in July 2004 until February 2007. Mr. Isaacs stepped down from the Board in February of 2007, due to his then-current employer’s policy prohibiting its employees from serving on boards of publicly-traded companies. Mr. Isaacs rejoined the Board in May 2008, shortly after joining Merlin Securities. Previously, from July 2000 to March 2008, Mr. Isaacs served as a Senior Vice President, Investments, with UBS Financial Services, a subsidiary of UBS AG, a Zurich-based investment bank. At UBS Financial Services and Merlin Securities, Mr. Isaacs conducted market research for institutional investors, including Greenlight Capital, Inc. Prior to its acquisition by UBS AG in July of 2000, Mr. Isaacs was employed by PaineWebber from May 1990, becoming Senior Vice-President of Investments in 1995. Prior to Paine Webber, Mr. Isaacs was a partner with Hambrecht and Quist, an investment bank based in San Francisco, from 1985 to 1990. Mr. Isaacs received his B.A. from Carleton College in 1977.
LEN GOLDBERG
LEN GOLDBERG
Len Goldberg has been a director of our Board since August 2005. Mr. Goldberg also has served as a director of Greenlight Re since 2005. Mr. Goldberg previously served as a director of GRIL from 2010 to 2014. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer of our Company from August 2005 through August 14, 2011. Mr. Goldberg has more than 20 years of insurance and reinsurance experience. He worked with the Alea Group, a reinsurance company, from August 2000 to August 2004, including serving as chief executive officer of Alea North America Insurance Company and Alea North America Specialty Insurance Company from March 2002 to August 2004, where he was responsible for the insurance and reinsurance strategy for the North America region. Prior to working with the Alea Group, Mr. Goldberg served as Chief Actuary and Senior Vice President – Financial Products of Custom Risk Solutions, a managing general agency company, from April 1999 to August 2000. From May 1995 to December 1998, Mr. Goldberg provided various actuarial services to Zurich Group, a reinsurance company, including acting as Chief Actuary of Zurich Re London. Mr. Goldberg received his B.A. in Mathematics from Rutgers University in 1984 and Masters in Business Administration, Finance Concentration, from Rutgers Executive MBA program in 1993 and is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.
SIMON BURTON
SIMON BURTON
Simon Burton joined Greenlight Re as Chief Executive Officer in July 2017. Prior to joining, he was the founding Chief Executive Officer of SAC Re until its sale to Hamilton Insurance Group. Simon’s other executive roles include Deputy Chief Executive at Lancashire Group and Chief Executive Officer of Lancashire’s Bermuda subsidiary. He also spent 10 years at ACE Limited in a variety of roles, including leading an underwriting division as President of Financial Solutions International. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Imperial College, London University.
HOPE S. TAITZ
HOPE S. TAITZ
Hope S. Taitz has been a director of our Board since July 2017. Ms. Taitz is currently the CEO of ELY Capital. Previously, she served as Managing Partner of Catalyst Partners, a long-short hedge fund. Prior to Catalyst Partners, Ms. Taitz was portfolio manager at Crystal Asset Management, where she managed a $1 billion high-yield portfolio. Ms. Taitz has also previously held positions at The Argosy Group (now part of CIBC) and Drexel Burnham Lambert. She currently sits on the boards of Athene Holding Ltd., MidCap FinCo and ATTN:, a media company that delivers content to a mobile-first audience. She received her B.A. in economics with honors and a concentration in marketing from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986.
COMMITTEE COMPOSITION
UNDERWRITING COMMITTEE
CHAIRMAN
Bryan Murphy
MEMBERS
Alan Brooks
David Einhorn
Len Goldberg
Frank Lackner
Simon Burton
NOMINATING & GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE
CHAIRMAN
Joseph Platt
MEMBERS
Frank Lackner
Ian Isaacs
Hope Taitz
GOVERNANCE DOCUMENTS
As part of our commitment to the highest standards of corporate governance, Greenlight Re has corporate governance guidelines, a code of conduct and ethics and a policy for communications to directors.