Hamish Galloway is Senior Vice President, Global Financial Solutions (GFS) for RGA UK Services Limited. He heads the office’s Financial Solutions team, which focuses on longevity reinsurance and financial reinsurance.

In 1998, Hamish was the first employee hired by RGA in the United Kingdom. He was an integral member of the team that took RGA’s UK operations from a startup to its current status as the market’s leading life reinsurance provider. He spent the first 10 years as Chief Pricing Actuary. He was named Head of Longevity and Financial Reinsurance in 2009, and later became Senior Vice President, GFS.

Hamish came to RGA from Gerling Global (UK), where he headed up its Pricing and Valuation areas. He began his career at Manulife Financial, and stayed on when it was bought by Canada Life, working as the valuation actuary for the unit-linked subsidiaries.

Hamish graduated from Cambridge University’s Sidney Sussex College, and qualified as an actuary in 1993. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (FIA).

As Senior Vice President, Global Financial Solutions (GFS) for RGA in EMEA, Emma Ferris leads RGA’s acquisition efforts in the region. She joined RGA in 2018 and has nearly 20 years of financial services industry experience. She is based in London.

Emma started her career as a Senior Consultant in the Insurance Practice of Watson Wyatt (now Willis Towers Watson), and later held a number of executive positions at AXA U.K., including Chief Risk Officer and as Director of Pensions, Treasury, ALM & Capital Management before joining RGA. Through these roles she worked across a number of areas including life, property and casualty, risk, investments, pensions, treasury, corporate finance, capital management, and mergers and acquisitions.

Emma received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics Operational Research Statistics and Economics (MORSE) with first class honours from Warwick University, and is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (FIA) in the U.K.

Laura Hardy is a Vice President, Business Development for RGA's Global Financial Solutions unit in the United Kingdom, where she is responsible for implementing capital-motivated reinsurance solutions. Working with our clients in the UK and Ireland, she focuses on client relationship management and structuring of longevity, asset intensive and financial reinsurance solutions.

Laura joined RGA in 2012. Prior to joining the company, Laura was a consultant for Willis Towers Watson in the Pensions division, where she advised multinational sponsors and trustees on de-risking strategies including bulk annuity and longevity swap products.

Laura holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in physics and a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in actuarial finance. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (FIA).

Dale Rotteveel is Senior Vice President in RGA’s Global Financial Solutions (GFS) Pricing unit in the United Kingdom. He leads and manages pricing and risk assessment for GFS deals throughout the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.

Dale joined RGA in 2005. He has held a number of roles throughout the organization, including pricing of traditional term and critical illness products in the United Kingdom and as an actuary on the Research and Development team. Starting in 2007, Dale helped develop RGA’s Longevity function and Global Financial Solutions Pricing team throughout the region.

Dale received a Bachelor of Business Science (BBusSci) degree in finance and actuarial science from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (FIA).

Sherlee Delos Santos is Vice President in the Global Financial Solutions (GFS) Pricing unit of RGA and is based in the United Kingdom. She is responsible for pricing reinsurance solutions, with focus on financial reinsurance, asset-intensive solutions and full-risk deals in the UK and Europe. Sherlee is the Product Lead for asset-intensive transactions.

Sherlee joined RGA in 2012. Prior to joining RGA, Sherlee was an Actuarial Executive Advisor in the Financial Risk Management department of KPMG, where she was involved in Solvency II model implementation, Prophet modelling and systems migration, Solvency II internal model validation, and MCEV review.

Sherlee received a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in applied mathematics from University of the Philippines. She is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA) and a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (FIA).

Jamie Campbell is Director, Pricing Actuary, in RGA’s Global Financial Solutions (GFS) unit and is based in the United Kingdom. Jamie’s responsibilities cover the pricing, risk assessment and execution of GFS transactions throughout the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Jamie is the Product Lead for longevity transactions.

Jamie joined RGA in January 2014. Prior to his current role, Jamie worked as a Pricing Actuary for GFS, where his predominant focus was pricing longevity swap transactions, as well as establishing infrastructure for the UK GFS small schemes offering. Prior to joining RGA, Jamie was a Senior Pricing Analyst in the Valuations team at ReAssure, focusing on the statutory reporting of SwissRe’s longevity swap business.

Jamie received a Masters of Mathematics and Statistics degree (MMathStat) from the University of Newcastle. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (FIA).

Sam Chesterton is a Business Development Director in RGA’s Global Financial Solutions (GFS) unit in the United Kingdom. His responsibilities include client relationship management and the structuring, execution, and maintenance of U.K. longevity and asset-intensive deals. Sam joined RGA U.K. in 2016 as Director, Asset Intensive Solutions for GFS where he was responsible for the pricing and structuring of reinsurance and acquisitions which incorporated market risk transfer.

Prior to RGA, Sam was a consultant for Willis Towers Watson in their Life Insurance division, focusing on M&As, outsourcing arrangements, and software solutions.

Sam received a masters degree in Mechanical Engineering (with honours) from the University of Bristol, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (FIA).

Danielle Singh is Business Development Director in RGA’s Global Financial Solutions (GFS) unit in the United Kingdom. She is responsible for client relationship management and for the structuring, execution, and maintenance of UK longevity and asset-intensive deals.

Danielle joined RGA in 2013. Prior to her current role, she worked as a Business Development Actuary for GFS. She also was a Pricing Actuary, where she was responsible for pricing reinsurance of traditional term and critical illness products in the United Kingdom. 

Before joining RGA, Danielle was a Pricing Actuary at Lucida plc, where she priced and executed bulk buy-in/out transactions with UK pension schemes.

Danielle holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in mathematics from Kings College, University of London, and she is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (FIA)

Paul Sauvé is Senior Vice President, EMEA, Global Financial Solutions (GFS) for RGA International Reinsurance Company dac. He is responsible for GFS’s business in the financial reinsurance, longevity reinsurance and asset-intensive reinsurance markets of Continental Europe, the Middle East and Africa. GFS helps create customized reinsurance solutions and supports life insurer capital needs.

Currently based in Cologne, Germany, Paul, who joined RGA in 2006, has worked in the insurance industry for 25 years. He began his career at Mutual Life of Canada, now part of Sun Life of Canada. He also worked for Manulife in its Singapore, Hong Kong and Germany offices, rising to Managing Director of Manulife’s Cologne office.

Paul received a Bachelor of Mathematics degree with Honours in actuarial science and statistics from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA), a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (FCIA) and a member of the Deutsche Aktuarvereinigung (DAV).

As Vice President, Business Development EMEA for RGA’s Global Financial Solutions (GFS) unit, André de Vries focuses on capital-motivated reinsurance, including longevity. André was directly involved in the longevity transactions that RGA implemented for Delta Lloyd in the Netherlands in 2014 and 2015. He is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and has worked in the financial industry for more than 15 years.

André began his career at ABN AMRO Bank as a quantitative consultant analyzing pre-payment risk in mortgage portfolios. Subsequently, he joined the Credit Risk Modelling group, heading the team responsible for measuring counterparty credit exposure on derivative portfolios. After that, André moved to the investment bank as a member of the Insurance Solutions Group, where he structured life insurance reserve financing transactions for clients in the United States and Canada.

André studied econometrics at the University of Tilburg and actuarial science at the University of Amsterdam.

Alexandra Field is Director, Business Development, EMEA, Global Financial Solutions for RGA International Reinsurance Company dac. Her focus is on developing and closing capital-motivated reinsurance solutions under Solvency II for selected Continental-European countries.

Alexandra joined RGA in 2009. Prior to that, Alexandra worked as Senior Originator for life reinsurance transactions at West LB and as Marketing Actuary in the Life department of Converium Rückversicherung (now SCOR). She began her career in actuarial consulting at Tillinghast Towers-Perrin (now Willis Towers Watson).

Alexandra has a Master's degree in mathematics from the University in Tübingen. She qualified as a member of the German Actuarial Association in 2002 and is also a member of the Swiss Actuarial Association.

In his role as Director of RGA International Reinsurance Company dac, Sucursal en España, Juan de Ipiña is part of the EMEA Global Financial Solutions (GFS) team, focusing on business development in the insurance markets of Spain and Portugal. He joined RGA in 2014.

Juan is a finance professional with extensive experience in risk management, Solvency II, financial reporting, corporate finance and analysis in the insurance sector. He has 18 years of insurance industry experience including serving four years as the director of KPMG’s Financial Risk Management department, focusing on Solvency II consulting solutions, and 11 years for Tillinghast-Towers Perrin (now Willis Towers Watson) in London and Madrid in a variety of positions.

Juan is a qualified actuary and Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries – U.K. (FIA), and has been a Fellow of the Spanish Institute of Actuaries since 1999. He received a Bachelor’s degree in economics and actuarial science from Carlos III de Madrid and ICADE, respectively. He has a Master’s degree in options & derivatives from the IEB School, also in Madrid.

Axel James is Director, Business Development, EMEA, for Global Financial Solutions (GFS). Primarily targeting saving and retirement products, he focuses on capital-motivated reinsurance under European regulations and for accounting purposes. He is based in Paris and is responsible for France, Belgium, and Luxembourg markets.

Axel has experience across financial sectors, mainly as an actuarial consultant for insurance companies on asset, liability, and risk management issues. He began his career as a financial engineer in Société Générale corporate and investment banking, helping to structure interest rate derivatives and fund derivatives.

Axel has two Master’s degrees: one in market finance and one in banking and finance from Sorbonne University. He also received a Master's degree in actuarial science from CNAM University and is a qualified member of the French Institute of Actuaries.