About us

Leadenhall Capital Partners LLP is the first joint venture between a Lloyd’s insurer and a highly experienced management team. In these relatively new investment markets, we believe our balance of skills and experience position Leadenhall at the forefront of investment advisory within the insurance linked securities field.

John Wells
Chairman

John Wells spent almost 20 years as an investment banker with the NatWest Group in London and Tokyo. In 2000, he was one of the four founding members of Swiss Re Financial Products where he led the development of Swiss Re’s platform for traded insurance risk.

Luca Albertini
Chief Executive Officer

Luca Albertini has extensive experience in both banking and insurance having spent time at the securitisation units of Citicorp, GE Capital (including an assignment within GE’s European reinsurance business) and Credit Suisse First Boston. From 2003 Luca headed the European Insurance Linked Securities team of Swiss Re Capital Markets, where he was responsible for developing one of the largest and most successful ILS teams in Europe.

Chris Learmonth
Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Compliance Officer

Chris trained as a Chartered Accountant and specialised in Financial Services Audit at PWC, before leaving practice to become Head of Finance - Specialised & Structured Finance at Greenwich NatWest. He left in 2000 to set up the finance function at Swiss Re Financial Products, designing and implementing the financial control environment of the new Capital Markets function.

Jillian Williams
Head of Portfolio Analysis

Jillian has over 12 years' experience in catastrophe modelling, actuarial pricing and consulting in the insurance/reinsurance sector.  Prior to joining Leadenhall Capital Partners she was Senior Vice President at Instrat, the modelling and actuarial department of Guy Carpenter, specialising in Capital Markets, Retro, Property and Marine classes.   Among other things she has managed projects in ILS, Retro and overseen the analysis and development for new Property & Casualty business opportunities. Prior to Guy Carpenter, Jillian worked at Fidelity Investment as Performance Measurement Analyst.

Dan Knipe
Portfolio Management Actuary

Dan is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, specialising in Life Insurance. He qualified at Tillinghast where he became a Consultant, advising various large international and UK life insurers on a wide range of topics including fund restructuring.  He joined Swiss Re Capital Markets in 2007 where he worked pricing and structuring Cat Mortality, XXX, Longevity and Embedded Value transactions.

Lorenzo Volpi
Business Development Director

Lorenzo has over 12 years of capital markets and reinsurance broking experience (both traditional and non-traditional) having worked at Aon Re, Banca Popolare di Milano London Branch and Aon Benfield Securities where he looked at the complete spectrum of alternative methodologies of risk transfer, risk financing and the convergence of the reinsurance and capital markets.

Lorenzo, a Director of Aon Benfield Securities for five years, led the sourcing, structuring, marketing and distribution of various projects and transactions on securitisation of insurance assets such as catastrophe bonds, catastrophe swaps, sidecars and private placements. He holds a Master's Degree in Finance from the University of London.

Amlin plc

Amlin is a leading specialist insurer with recognised underwriting expertise across a diverse range of property and casualty, aviation, marine, reinsurance and UK commercial classes. A FTSE-250 quoted company, Amlin operates in the Lloyd’s of London market, Bermuda, Singapore and Illinois and its single Syndicate 2001 is rated ‘A+’ (Excellent) by AM Best and ‘A1’ (Stable) by Moody’s. For further information, please see www.amlin.com

In addition to advising on individual risks, Amlin’s expertise is also available to Leadenhall via the participation of this its Chief Financial Officer and its Chief Risk Officer in the Board. Leadenhall and Amlin have established appropriate Chinese Wall and conflict management procedures.