Board of Directors

W. James MacGinnitie

Chairman
RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.

W. James MacGinnitie has served as one of our directors since February 2000. Mr. MacGinnitie is a Class II director. Mr. MacGinnitie is an independent actuary and consultant. He served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of CNA Financial from September 1997 to September 1999. From May 1994 until September 1997, Mr. MacGinnitie was a partner of Ernst & Young and National Director of its actuarial services. From 1975 until 1994 he was a principal in Tillinghast, primarily responsible for its property-casualty actuarial consulting services. Prior to that time, Mr. MacGinnitie was a Professor of Actuarial Science & Director of Actuarial Program at the University of Michigan from 1973 to 1975. In addition, Mr. MacGinnitie serves on the board of Trustmark Insurance Company and of NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company.

Neill A. Currie

President and Chief Executive Officer
RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.

Neill Currie was a co-founder of RenaissanceRe in 1993, and served as a Senior Vice President until he retired from the company in 1997. He re-joined the company in July 2005 as an Executive Vice President, to oversee the firm-wide marketing and client relations activities, as well as leading the Specialty Underwriting business. In November 2005, Mr. Currie assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer of RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd., and became President & CEO in 2008.

Mr. Currie has most recently served as a director of Platinum Underwriters Holdings, and has been an active supporter of numerous nonprofit initiatives in his home state of North Carolina. Prior to joining RenaissanceRe in 1993, Mr. Currie was Chief Executive Officer of G.J. Sullivan Co.-Atlanta, a private domestic reinsurance broker. From 1982 through 1992, Mr. Currie served as Senior Vice President at R/I and G.L. Hodson, predecessors to Willis Group Holdings Ltd.

Thomas A. Cooper

Chief Executive Officer
TAC Associates

Thomas A. Cooper has served as one of our directors since August 7, 1996. Mr. Cooper is a Class II director. Mr. Cooper has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TAC Associates, a privately held investment company, since August 1993. From August 1993 until August 1996, Mr. Cooper served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Chase Federal Bank FSB. From June 1992 until July 1993, Mr. Cooper served as principal of TAC Associates. From April 1990 until May 1992, Mr. Cooper served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldome FSB. He also serves on the Boards of The BISYS Group, Inc., Delaware North Companies and Wheeling Island Gaming.

Edmund B. Greene

Retired Deputy Treasurer
General Electric Company

Edmund B. Greene has served as one of our directors since our formation in June 1993. Mr. Greene is a Class I director. Mr. Greene retired as Deputy Treasurer-Insurance of General Electric Company in October 1998, where he had served since March 1995. Prior to that, Mr. Greene was Manager-Corporate Insurance Operation of General Electric Company commencing in 1985, and previously served in various financial management assignments at General Electric Company commencing in 1962.

Brian R. Hall

Retired Chairman and CEO
Johnson & Higgins (Bermuda) Ltd.

Brian R. Hall has served as one of our directors since August 1999. Mr. Hall is a Class I director. Mr. Hall, who is President of Inter-Ocean Management Ltd., an independent company providing management and general consulting services, retired as a Director of Johnson & Higgins, and Chairman of Johnson & Higgins (Bermuda) Ltd. in July 1997. In 1969, Mr. Hall founded Inter-Ocean Management Ltd., which entered into an association with Johnson & Higgins in 1970. The business of Inter-Ocean was acquired by Johnson & Higgins in 1979, and Mr. Hall was appointed President of Johnson & Higgins (Bermuda) Ltd. He became a Director of Johnson & Higgins in 1989. Mr. Hall is a recipient of the Bermuda Insurance Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award (2000), the Chair of the Bermuda Foundation for Insurance Studies, a former chair of the Insurance Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Finance of the Bermuda Government, and in 1998 received a Queen's Honours, an Officer of the Order of the British Empire designation.

Jean D. Hamilton

Private Investor
Independent Consultant

Jean D. Hamilton will serve as a new Class I director. Ms. Hamilton is an Independent Consultant/Private Investor. Previously, she was Executive Vice President of Prudential Financial, Inc., serving as Chief Executive Officer of Prudential Institutional, from November 1998 through November 2002. From 1988 through 1998, she held various positions with Prudential Financial, Inc., including President of the Prudential Diversified Group and President of the Prudential Capital Group. From 1971 to 1988, she held several positions with The First National Bank of Chicago, including Senior Vice President and Head of the Northeastern Corporate Banking Department. She is currently a Trustee of First Eagle Funds and First Eagle Variable Funds.

William F. Hecht

Retired Chairman, President and CEO
PPL Corporation

William F. Hecht has served as one of our directors since November 2001. Mr. Hecht is a Class III director. Mr. Hecht is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of PPL Corporation. He also serves as a director of PPL Electric Utilities Corporation and as a manager of PPL Energy Supply, LLC, subsidiaries of PPL Corporation. He was elected President and Chief Operating Officer of PPL Corporation in 1991 and has served in his present position since 1993. Mr. Hecht is also a director of DENTSPLY International Inc. and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

Henry Klehm III

Global Head of Compliance
Deutsche Bank, AG

Henry Klehm III serves as Global Head of Compliance at Deutsche Bank with overall management responsibility for compliance advice, policies, training, monitoring, and internal reviews. Before joining Deutsche Bank in 2002, Mr. Klehm was Chief Regulatory Officer and Deputy General Counsel at Prudential Financial. Prior to this, Mr. Klehm spent ten years at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, rising to the position of Senior Associate Regional Director. Mr. Klehm graduated from Villanova University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School with honors. Upon graduation, he clerked for Judge Daniel H. Huyett, of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Ralph B. Levy

Senior Partner
King & Spalding LLP

Ralph B. Levy has served as one of our directors since August 2007, and is a Class III director. Mr. Levy is a Senior Partner in the Atlanta headquarters office of King & Spalding LLP, which he joined in 1974 and where he served as Managing Partner from 1993 to 1999. Mr. Levy is a former chairman (2004 to 2006) and continues to serve as a member of the Board of Directors of the Attorneys Liability Assurance Society, Ltd., a Bermuda-based mutual insurance company which reinsures professional liability and management liability coverages written by its U.S. subsidiary, Attorneys’ Liability Assurance Society, Inc., on whose Board of Directors Mr. Levy also serves. After receiving his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, Mr. Levy served as a military trial lawyer and judge in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocates General's Corp from 1971 to 1974.

Scott E. Pardee

Alan R. Holmes Professor of Monetary Economics
Middlebury College

Scott E. Pardee has served as one of our directors since February 1997. Mr. Pardee is a Class I director. Mr. Pardee serves as Alan R. Holmes Professor of Monetary Economics at Middlebury College, where he has taught since January 1, 2000. Previously he served as a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Executive Director of the Finance Research Center at the Sloan School from November 1997. Mr. Pardee served as Chairman of Yamaichi International (America), Inc., a financial services company, from 1989 to 1995. Mr. Pardee previously served as Executive Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors of Discount Corporation of New York, a primary dealer in U.S. government securities, and Senior Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Manager of Foreign Operations of the Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve System.

Nicholas L. Trivisonno

Retired Chairman and CEO
ACNielsen Corporation

Nicholas L. Trivisonno has served as one of our directors since May 2004. Mr. Trivisonno is a Class III director. Mr. Trivisonno was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ACNielsen Corporation from January 1996 through March 2001. From September 1995 through November 1996, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Dun & Bradstreet Corporation. Previously, he had held several positions at GTE Corporation from November 1988 until July 1995, including Group President, Executive Vice President, Strategic Planning, Senior Vice President Finance, and Vice President and Controller. Mr. Trivisonno began his career as a certified public accountant with Arthur Andersen & Co. in 1968, became a partner in 1979 and was appointed a managing partner in 1986.

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