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Credit Suisse Insurance Linked Strategies Ltd (“CSILS”) is a stock company incorporated under Swiss law and authorized by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) as asset manager of collective investment schemes. It is a fully owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse Group AG.

Executive Board

Niklaus Hilti – Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer

Niklaus Hilti has more than 18 years of experience in the reinsurance and ILS industry and has been with the team since the beginning at Bank Leu in 2004. Prior to joining Bank Leu and later Credit Suisse, he spent two years at Helvetia Insurance, where he was Head of the Non-Life Reinsurance team. Prior to Helvetia, he served as Head of the Natural Catastrophe Pricing team at Converium Ltd.
Catherine Graf – Chief Operating Officer

Catherine Graf has more than 19 years of experience in the financial industry and has been with the team since 2013. Prior to joining the ILS team, she held several positions as Senior Compliance Officer within the Credit Suisse Group (which has included ILS since 2009). Before joining Credit Suisse in 2002, she served as Head of Distressed Mortgages at Swiss Life.
Daniel Burkhard – Head of ILS Business Strategy and Development

Daniel Burkhard has more than 29 years of experience in the financial industry and has been with the team since 2010. Prior to joining the ILS team, he worked for the Business Development and Management Group at Credit Suisse Investment Banking for 9 years. Before joining Credit Suisse, he held several positions at financial institutions, mostly in trading and controlling departments.
Paul Hertelendy – Head Reinsurance

Paul Hertelendy has more than 22 years of experience in the reinsurance industry and joined the team in 2018. Prior to joining the ILS team, he was Chief Underwriting Officer Specialty Lines at SCOR. Before that he held various management positions at Converium / ZurichRe as Senior Vice President and Chief Underwriting Officer North America and Specialty Lines and head of Global Property Catastrophe Underwriting. He started his reinsurance career as a Property Catastrophe Modeler and Underwriter at Partner Re.

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Niklaus Hilti – Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer

Catherine Graf – Chief Operating Officer

Daniel Burkhard – Head of ILS Business Strategy and Development

Paul Hertelendy – Head Reinsurance

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