Tony has over 39 years of insurance industry and investment banking experience. He has seen the global insurance, insurance services and insurtech space from a broad lens of leading global investment banks, a leading global insurance and reinsurance broker, and a Bermuda-based speciality insurance and reinsurance carrier. Tony has been involved in advising on over 150 insurance M&A transactions and hundreds of insurance capital raising transactions, spanning the spectrum of IPOs, common equity, convertible, preferred, debt, surplus, note, hybrid, and ILS deals. Tony has always been a staunch advocate for his clients, consistently delivering honest, objective, thoughful, and creative advice. He is an effective and expert negotiator who understands the finesse and art of the deal. He is a builder and an innovator and has frequently written and spoken about trends in the global insurance, insurance services and Insurtech industries and on what the insurer of the future will look like. Tony started his career as an analyst at Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, went to work at Merrill Lynch and SG Warburg before building and heading the Global Financial Institutions Group at Bank of America for 10 years before being named a Vice- Chairman. Tony then became head of corporate development for Willis Group and Founder and CEO of Willis Capital Markets and Advisory before going to TigerRisk Partners as President of the firm and CEO of TigerRisk Capital Markets and Advisory. Most recently
before co-founding Insurance Advisory Partners, Tony was Group CFO of Hamilton Insurance Group and also served as member of the baord of directors of Hamilton for a period of two years. Currently Tony also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Assured Guaranty LTD. Tony graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 1987 as a Morehead Scholar where he majored in Economics and International studies. He was also a member of UNCs varsity lacrosee team which won
the NCAA Division 1 National Championship in 1986. Prior to that, Tony graduated summa cum laude from Woodberry Forest School. Tony acts as the Chairman of the Industry Board of Advisors of, and was instrumental in the founding of, the Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation at UNC Chapel Hill. He also serves on the Morehead Cain Scholarship Fund Board at UNC Chapel Hill.