SVP Specialty Real Estate Energy Insurance Risk Solutions

Senior Vice President, Specialty Real Estate & Energy Insurance Risk Solutions

Executive Leadership Role | Specialty Insurance, Reinsurance, Captives & Structured Risk

The Senior Vice President, Specialty Real Estate & Energy Insurance Risk Solutions is the accountable executive responsible for designing, launching, and scaling a specialty insurance platform focused on:

• Commercial real estate and construction risks
• Renewable energy and energy‑infrastructure assets
• Structured and financial risk solutions

This role owns portfolio strategy, underwriting appetite and governance, pricing and reserving discipline, reinsurance and capital optimization
, and senior stakeholder management across regulators, auditors, reinsurers, and distribution partners.

The position intentionally combines the scope of a Chief Actuary (valuation, reserving, model governance, statutory and economic reporting) with the commercial authority of an Executive Underwriter (program ownership, production leadership, client and board engagement), creating a single point of accountability for profitable growth and risk‑adjusted return on capital
.

• Role level: Senior Vice President / Executive Vice President equivalent
• Reports to: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
• Geography: United States, with optional Bermuda and EU‑facing counter parties
• Travel: Up to ~20% (board meetings, reinsurers, brokers, site visits)

The organization is building a specialty insurance and risk solutions platform serving capital‑intensive, complex asset classes where insurance functions as a balance‑sheet, financing, and execution enabler
.

Primary customers include:

• Developers and EPC contractors
• Owners and operators
• Lenders, tax equity, and project finance participants
• Infrastructure funds and commercial real‑estate sponsors

The platform may operate through admitted or surplus lines carriers, MGAs/MGUs, fronting arrangements, and/or captive and cell structures
, supported by reinsurance and collateralized risk transfer.

• Builders Risk / Construction All Risks (CAR)
• Delay in Start‑Up (DSU / ALOP)
• OCIPs and contractor‑controlled programs
• General and excess liability
• Workers’ compensation
• Environmental and site liability
• Professional liability / E&O

• Solar, wind, storage, grid, and industrial energy assets
• Construction, transit, commissioning, and operations phases
• Equipment breakdown and business interruption
• Parametric weather and catastrophe solutions
• Environmental and performance‑related risk structures

• Trade credit and receivables protection
• Surety and performance support (where applicable)
• Residual value and revenue stabilization
• Lender‑centric insurance wraps
• Bespoke structured risk transfer solutions

Success in this role is defined by the following outcomes:

• Approved underwriting guidelines, authority matrices, and referral protocols
• Clear risk appetite and portfolio concentration limits

• Actuarial pricing and reserving models aligned to specialty risk
• Board‑ready quarterly reserve review and reporting cadence

• Placed quota share and/or excess reinsurance programs
• Defined retention, collateral, and counter party management framework

• Statutory reporting calendar and controls
• Readiness for US Statutory, US GAAP, and IFRS 17 reporting where applicable
• Documented model governance and audit trail

• Executed channel strategy across brokers, MGAs/MGUs, reinsurers, fronting carriers, and captive managers
• Measurable pipeline and conversion performance

• Implemented target operating model (systems, data, TPAs, claims, risk engineering)
• Clear governance and control environment

• Sustainable profitable growth with defined targets for GWP, net retained premium, combined ratio, and ROE
• Credible roadmap to scale beyond initial programs