Chris is a founding employee and Chief Executive of Reinsurance, ILS, and Innovation at Vantage Risk. Mr. McKeown has over 35 years of experience in the re/insurance industry. His career has spanned production, broking, underwriting, portfolio construction, alternative capital, and analytical product development. He pioneered the alternative collateralized reinsurance market at CIG Re and New Castle Re, funded by Citadel Investment Group in 2004. Prior to Vantage Risk, Chris was CEO of New Ocean Capital, an asset management company supported by AXA XL, Stone Point Capital, and Mitsui Corporation. Mr. McKeown’s underwriting career began at Ace Tempest Re, where he grew to become the CEO of the Bermuda registered balance sheet company. Prior to Ace Tempest Re, he launched his career as a reinsurance broker for Guy Carpenter. Chris holds a Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse University.

Brant has 20+ years of alternative investment experience across multiple asset classes. Prior to joining Vantage Risk, he served as Chief Operating Officer for AlphaCat Managers Ltd., AlphaCat Reinsurance and OmegaCat Reinsurance Ltd., as well as Executive Director for AlphaCat Managers Ltd., AlphaCat Master Fund Ltd. and AlphaCat Reinsurance Ltd. Prior to joining AlphaCat Managers, Mr. Loucks led trading & operations teams at DW Partners, L.P. (multi-strategy credit) and Whippoorwill Associates, Inc. (distressed & high-yield credit). Brant holds a M.B.A. in Finance from New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business and a B.S. in Finance from Oswego State University.

Steve has over 11 years of business development and investor relations experience in the ILS/(re)insurance market. Prior to joining Vantage Risk, he served as SVP, Business Development and Investor Relations at Elementum Advisors and he worked on the banking and capital raising team for Lincoln Square Advisors, a boutique hedge fund advisory firm. Steve holds a B.S. in Finance from Elon University, and is a CAIA charter holder.

Prior to joining Vantage Risk, Brent spent 13 years at Verisk Extreme Event Solutions as Head of Strategy and led their Insurance-Linked Securities desk which delivered risk analysis reporting for new bond issuances and supported investor modeling and analytic needs. He was recognized as a “Young ILS Professional of the Year” by Trading Risk and contributed to Alternative (Re)insurance Strategies, a definitive book on ILS. Brent earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University.

Steve has spent over 20 years in re/insurance in analytic roles with reinsurers and brokers. He is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, a Certified Catastrophe Risk Management Professional, a Chartered Physicist, and holds a doctorate in atmospheric physics and a first-class honors degree in physics, both from the University of Oxford. He was the 2007 recipient of The Review Worldwide Reinsurance Future Industry Leader award and a 2008 recipient of a Risk & Insurance Risk Innovator award.

Mark has over 15-years of (re)insurance experience in many facets of reinsurance underwriting and property catastrophe analytics, including active portfolio management and optimization. Prior to joining Vantage Risk, he held positions of Head of Property Reinsurance Underwriting at Mt. Logan Re, Head of Catastrophe Risk Management at Aspen Bermuda, and Senior Modeling Analyst at Axis Reinsurance. Mark earned a B.S. in Biological Sciences from UC Irvine, as well as M.S. and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University.