Paul Hopwood
Chief Undewriting Officer
Three decades of specialty reinsurance leadership across London, Bermuda, and New York markets, with a focus on portfolio construction and capital partner alignment.
Leadership
Senior practitioners. Direct accountability.
The leadership team is composed of underwriters, actuaries, and operators with multi-decade specialty reinsurance careers across London, Bermuda, Continental Europe, and the United States.
Office of the CEO
Kyle Shostak
President
President of the Seqns MGA Group. Kyle held origination, structuring and portfolio risk management positions in Leveraged Finance and Financial Sponsors desks at J.P. Morgan, GE Capital/Genworth Financial, Credit Suisse, Banca Intesa and Bank Austria / Creditanstalt. He also covered mezzanine, second line, secured, LBO/MBO, asset-backed, special situations debt and private equity deals. MBA in Finance from Stern School of Business at NYU (2000) and Master of Laws (LL.M.) from The American University, Washington, D.C. (1994). As well as a past speaker at the Bermuda ILS Conference.
The leadership team meets weekly on portfolio composition, monthly on capacity and capital, and quarterly on cycle management and governance. Senior accountability for every line of business is named, documented, and unchanged through the reporting cycle.
Underwriting & operations
The senior team.
Felipe da Cruz
Advisor
20 years across global P&C reinsurance, most recently leading international underwriting at Credit Suisse Asset Management's ILS arm. Previously at Sompo Japan Re, Arch Re, and Hannover Re.
Edward O'Dwyer
Business Development
Ed is an experienced Human Capital professional with deep knowledge of the people within the brokers and cedents we work with Ed brings those relationships to the table and is a crucial part of the business development and marketing of the MGA
Vesna Djindjic
Senior Business Developer
Vesna has over a decade of experience in the international treaty space as well as a vast network of broker and producer contacts from Europe, Asia and LatAm.
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Consultant
TBA
Reach the underwriting team directly.
Each class lead is contactable through the channels listed on our contact page. Senior team members handle substantive submissions and partnership conversations.