Gary Seifert is Senior Vice President, North America, Global Financial Solutions (GFS), a unit of RGA. He is responsible for managing the North America region of GFS, including business development, marketing and transaction services, and stable value operations.

Gary started his business development career in 1992 as a Reinsurance Account Executive, marketing to life insurance companies in the U.S., and has filled a range of sales and marketing roles for RGA since then. He began his reinsurance career in 1989 as a reinsurance analyst for ITT Lyndon Re, and joined RGA in 1995 when RGA and Swiss Re purchased ITT Lyndon Re, forming RGA/Swiss Financial Group. RGA bought Swiss Re’s interest in 2000, renaming the unit RGA Financial Markets, and then in 2010, RGA merged the unit with RGA Capital and Financial Solutions to form GFS.

He received his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in accounting from the University of Missouri – Columbia and his M.B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Certified Management Accountant (CMA), and a Fellow of the Life Management Institute (FLMI).

Richard Leblanc is Senior Vice President, Global Acquisitions at RGA, responsible for leading multi-disciplinary teams in the acquisition of global in-force life and annuity blocks, and as well as run-off life insurance companies. He focuses on transaction origination, structuring, financing, negotiation, the regulatory approval process and on post-close optimization. He recently led the successful third party equity capital raise for Langhorne Re. Prior to being named to his current role, Richard joined RGA in 2009 as Vice President of Structured Finance, where he developed and implemented a series of innovative capital market financing facilities for RGA.

Richard has more than 30 years of experience in the insurance industry spanning the life, P&C, financial guarantee, brokerage, and risk advisory sectors. Throughout his career, Richard has led deal teams analyzing and deploying capital across a broad range of insurance portfolios. Previously Richard was the Managing Director, Structured Insurance at Ambac Assurance in New York City, where he underwrote financial guarantees for some of the most innovative life insurance linked securitizations. He also led a multi-faceted rehabilitation of a complex multi-billion financing vehicle severely impacted by the global financial crisis.

While at Manulife Financial he served as a vice president in their corporate M&A group where he evaluated a wide range of insurance, distribution and wealth management platforms in North America and Asia. Richard was previously a vice president in Manulife’s reinsurance division where his team delivered capital motivated reinsurance solutions to life reinsurers across Europe and North America. He has also served as a special risks P&C broker at Sedgwick, where he specialized in helping multinational corporations finance uninsurable risks through the use of captives and a variety of alternative risk transfer techniques.

Richard is a Certified Public Accountant (Illinois), and a Chartered Professional Accountant (Ontario), and started his career with KPMG in Toronto, Canada.

David Addison leads North American business development for the Global Financial Solutions (GFS) unit of RGA, with a focus on financial, interest-sensitive and structured reinsurance programs in the annuity, life and health markets.

In addition to these responsibilities, at various times, David has been responsible for sales of structured products in RGA’s Asia Pacific segment and led sales for RGA’s captive solutions team. He currently works in conjunction with RGA’s Healthcare Reinsurance Division to develop additional opportunities.

David has worked in the insurance and reinsurance industry for more than 25 years, joining RGA in 1999. Before joining RGA, David was Director, Strategic Development for a New York domiciled life insurer, where he participated in evaluating and closing strategic merger and acquisition opportunities. He has also been a consultant for one of the major actuarial consulting firms out of their Milwaukee office, and he started his career as an actuary for a small life insurer in Minnesota.

David received his Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree (with honors) in statistics from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in Great Britain, and his M.B.A. (with honors) from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA). David has served on the Reinsurance Section Council and has been a frequent speaker at industry and regulatory meetings, in North America, Asia, and Europe.

Paul Sauvé is Senior Vice President for Capital Solutions for Global Financial Solutions (GFS). He is responsible for leading global strategies around the capital solutions business line. Prior to his current role, Paul led business development in the financial reinsurance, longevity reinsurance and asset-intensive reinsurance markets of Continental Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Currently based in Cologne, Germany, Paul, who joined RGA in 2006, has worked in the insurance industry for than 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).

Bill is Vice President, Business Development in RGA’s Global Financial Solutions (GFS) unit.  The unit is responsible for all of RGA’s financial reinsurance, asset-intensive reinsurance, and bulk longevity business worldwide.  In his role, Bill maintains personal contact with about 30 percent of all of the major life insurance groups operating in the United States.  Bill is also involved in the conceptualization, development, negotiation, and implementation of capital-oriented transactions with these insurers.

Bill has been a core member of the GFS team and its predecessors since his move to St Louis in 1988.  Over the years, Bill has been instrumental in completing all types of financial reinsurance transactions, retrocessions, and asset-intensive transactions. Bill was also a driver of RGA’s entry into the stable value wrap market.

Prior to moving to St Louis, Bill was the Pricing Actuary for BMA Reinsurance in Kansas City.

Bill is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA).  He holds Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) and Master of Advanced Studies (M.A.S.) degrees from Georgia State University.

As Vice President, Business Development for GFS, Libby Corcillo uses her extensive industry experience and insight to help GFS clients in North America identify opportunities in product development, growth strategies, and risk-sharing structures. She joined RGA in 2019 with more than 25 years of experience in officer-level roles in business development, client management, and leading lines of business.

Most recently Libby was Vice President, Chief Marketing & Underwriting Officer for Munich American Reassurance Company, and has also served as Vice President of Group Life for Scottish Re, as well as Vice President of Group Life and Marketing for Gen Re.

Libby received a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics (cum laude) from Western Connecticut State University. She is a Fellow, Life Management Institute (FLMI), an Associate, Customer Service (ACS), an Associate, Life and Health Claims (ALHC), and a Managed Healthcare Professional (MHP). She is a member, and past president, of the Group Underwriters Association of America (GUAA).

Keith E. Politte is Vice President, Business Development, for RGA’s Global Financial Solutions (GFS) unit. He is responsible for managing client relations and for sales and marketing activities of assigned GFS accounts.

The GFS unit is responsible for all of RGA’s financial reinsurance, interest-sensitive reinsurance, and longevity business worldwide. GFS works closely with RGA offices around the world to create customized reinsurance solutions for annuities and other interest-sensitive products, provide longevity protection, and support client capital needs for life, health, and annuity products, and general corporate financing.

Keith joined RGA in 2009 from Colliers International, where he was a principal in its Corporate Solutions Group. Before then, he was a Senior Manager in KPMG’s performance management consulting practice, focusing mainly on large financial institutions.

Keith received a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in accounting from the University of Missouri – Columbia, and an M.B.A. from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis. Keith is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Management Accountant (CMA).